We heard our friends at Glyn Anwen residential care home were struggling having been in isolation for a long time... This afternoon, every class surrounded their entire building to sing them Christmas songs. Some watched from their lounge, some from their windows 🥰
This little year 1 superstar blew my socks off today! He has taught himself to play some of the songs from his class Christmas concert on the piano! He then let me have the privilege of playing this Christmassy duet with him at the end of the afternoon!
#JingleBells
#SoProud
We know it may not be your top priority on Christmas eve, but our recent
@EstynHMI
inspection report was published today. We're absolutely delighted to celebrate the hard work of our entire SJPS family! Have a very Merry Christmas from us all!
The Ugandans say that when you get nervous, you should dance... they were nervous as they reached the top of the
@NewportCouncil
transporter bridge, so they started dancing their way along the top in true Ugandan style!
After 18 amazing years at SJPS, yesterday was the saddest. I have loved every minute of working at St Julian’s and have so many memories to take with me. Thank you to the best pupils, parents, staff and Governors and a huge thank you for my cards and gifts. Mrs Orford 😀
This man has had such a huge impact on the school and community over the past 17 years. Mr Rees, diolch yn fawr, you will be greatly missed.
@NewportCouncil
At the start of term, children were invited to write to us to tell us how we could improve our school. Couple of children suggested playing relaxing music in the corridors. This weekend, we’ve started installing network speakers around the place. Cheers
@Sonos
@IKEAUK
St Julian’s family, we raised enough money to buy SO many resources for 3 Ugandan schools, gave out 93 pencil cases, 3 suitcases full of clothes & 62 pairs of flip flops to children & orphans desperately in need. You are truly awesome! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Mr M
So grateful to
@NewportCounty
for sending
@danlead12
and
@RyanHaynes1995
to our assembly yesterday, to wish Mr Carter well in his retirement and present him with gifts. He was absolutely thrilled. Mr Carter has been at the school for 20 years and will be greatly missed!
These two fantastic boys arrived at my office this morning with an envelope containing £65.50. They‘ve been making origami crafts & flick books to sell to their neighbours and family to raise money for our link school and orphans’ project in Uganda!
#ThinkingOfOthersAtChristmas
A huge thank you to all families who donated clothes for us to take out to Uganda with us. We are especially loving the
@NewportCounty
shirts here!
Earlier this year, we donated an old
@Samsung
Galaxy Tablet to children in
#Uganda
. They’ve been using it for all sorts of things to help them with their learning but today, we received this video of them just using it to play music to dance along with
#WeTakeSoMuchForGranted
Incredibly sad to say goodbye to Mrs Arnold as she starts her very well deserved retirement after forty years working at the school. She will be greatly missed by pupils, parents and staff.
Last week, one of our pupils brought in a spare pair of trainers & gave them to Mr Walyaula, one of the Ugandan headteachers visiting us. Today, a child in Namunsi Primary, Uganda, received those trainers. He walked barefoot before.
#InAWorldWhereYouCanBeAnything
#BeKind
Just received this video from our partner school in Uganda, Busiu Primary. They are about to take part in a netball tournament and wanted to show us how smart they looked in the sports kits we bought for them. Thanks to all our pupils and parents!
Proud of our School - we have had a water well installed in Africa! Clean water is crucial for people to survive. The community are so thrilled.
#GlobalGoal6
#CleanWaterandSanitation
We bought some new writing tables for our foundation phase classes on the weekend. They arrived flat-packed. Obviously, we got the children doing the hard work to build them 😉 Mr Mansfield & Mrs Orford turned it into a competition... and obviously, Team Mansfield won 💁🏻♂️🤦🏻♀️😀
Sooooo proud of all our amazingly talented Year 5&6 children who have just performed ‘The Greatest Show’ for the last time! You absolutely smashed it! Thank you for being so awesome!
Thank you to all our incredibly dedicated teachers who set off early and travelled far and wide to get into school this morning. We appreciate you greatly!
At the start of last term, we invited children to tell us how they felt we could improve our school. A few children said they thought we should have a better library. We don’t have very much space, but this week, we’ve emptied a storeroom and built bookshelves around the sides.
You know it’s going to be a good week when it starts with one of your pupils presenting you with a canvas portrait of yourself! What better way is there to spend your weekend than drawing your headteacher!? 😏🤔
#BetterLookingOnCanvasThanInRealLife
So proud of our children. Schools have become far too complicated. Our main goal should simply be to create happy places. Happy children are healthier, learn better, display more emotional literacy and are better behaved.
Care about each one of our 698 children enoooormously 🥰
After a lot of peer pressure, we even managed to get Mr Mansfield on the inflatable obstacle course. This year 6 boy was incredibly confident that he would beat him to the finish…
We’ve been out and about salvaging these old giant cable reels. A sand down and a lick of varnish, and they’ll make brilliant tables for outdoor learning!
A very sad day for many parents and children. With war imminent, the government have commenced operation Pied Piper and many of our St. Julian’s Pupils have been evacuated to safety in the countryside
#AuthenticLearning
#KeepingItReal
#Evacuation
#WorldWar2
We have been absolutely blown away by the support from our parents and pupils, for our link schools in
#Uganda
. These amazing nursery pupils have brought in pencil cases and pocket money to give to some of the children we’ll meet!
#kind
#ethicalinformedcitizens
The Headteacher and pupils at Namunsi Primary School in Mbale Uganda were absolutely thrilled to receive the gift of a laptop donated by
@SPTS_Tech
in Newport.
A gigantic ‘well done’ to all the pupils who took part in tonight’s show! We are so so proud of you all!! Thank you to all our staff for giving so much time and effort to put on these events, and also to our wonderful parents and grandparents for being a fab audience!
We are delighted that our pupils were selected as the national winners of the
@WelshGovernment
@WG_Education
@DC_Wales
#DigitalHeroes
project this year. A huge well done to all the schools who have developed Digital Heroes and a big shout out to the residents of Glyn Anwen!!
This morning, we were the first school in
@NewportCouncil
to be presented with the PONT flag for our ‘outstanding work’ in building effective partnerships with Ugandan schools and also for supporting other Newport schools in establishing their own partnerships overseas.
The FP choir sang a lovely song for Mrs Lewis and then presented her with some gifts. Her creative club pupils also said some lovely things about her! We’re going to miss you Mrs Lewis!
Incredibly proud of every one of our Year 6 pupils who spent their final day in primary school, yesterday. Not the way we anticipated ending the year but at least we managed to celebrate with a pizza and popcorn party, ice cream van and then a virtual graduation ceremony.
They’re on their way! The children loved their
@Skype
call from Mr Mansfield and Mr Prewett this morning. Safe journey and keep us updated
@MP_Primary
🏴 to 🇺🇬
This pupil was sent to Mr Mansfield’s office this morning to show him her writing about a magical snowman! He was sooooo impressed! What a great smile she has too!
Absolutely delighted with the football shirts and footballs donated by
@CountyCommunity
@NewportCounty
for us to take out to give to children in Uganda! They will be so excited!! Thank you so much!
So so proud (as always) of our awesome pupils who delivered a lecture to masters students this evening at
@UniSouthWales
, all about Digital Learning and the DCF. You were ace!
Pupils from our link school in Uganda took part in a football and netball tournament yesterday. They wore the sports kits that pupils from
@StJuliansPri
and
@MP_Primary
bought for them. They won the tournament and were so happy! Of course, the Welsh flag was raised to celebrate!
Super proud of our cluster schools this evening who performed absolutely brilliantly
@StJuliansSchool
. We are so proud of you all. Well done to our past pupils too! Definitely some Westend stars in the making!
@GlanUskPS
@StJuliansPri
@StJuliansSchool
Incredibly proud to have supported 20 families in our community with Christmas dinner hampers & presents for children! A big thank you to St Julians Methodist Church &
@DebJDav
for their financial contributions & to
@IcelandFoods
& staff who helped to deliver
#MoreThanJustASchool
Today, we sent a very small donation out to Uganda to feed some of the homeless people who live in the communities that our link schools support. So proud and thrilled to be able to support and care for others around the world. They were so grateful.
Well that was a lot of fun! Thank you to everyone who attended the colour run and for your donations. It was fantastic to have so much support! A big thank you to
@nlsportsdev
for their support and help with today’s event. Let’s hope the paint comes off 😆 🎨 🏃🏻♀️
Really lovely to get together with
@GlanUskPS
@FairoakNursery
and Reverend Les from St Julian’s Methodist Church for a Cluster Christmas Carols singalong. Wonderful to bring the children and staff of our community together (albeit virtually at the moment!)
Lots in the news about schools needing to help children ‘catch up’ after time away from school. Sometimes, the best ‘catching up’ children can do is just with each other... around the log circle, with hot dogs, hot choc & s’mores! So lovely to spend time chatting and listening
Another great day for our Ugandan visitors! They enjoyed walking across the
@NewportCouncil
Transporter Bridge and then Miss Butcher cooked them a Sunday roast!
Today we went outside to see the Pom Pom tree! We talked about how it’s okay to feel sad and worried, as well as happy, and that the best way to help ourselves feel better is to talk!
Super proud of these two today! They had been writing about their school visit to
@RomanCaerleon
! Their writing was brilliant and they included so many facts which they‘d learnt during the visit! Seeing their little faces light up as they brought their books in made my afternoon!
Apologies if you’ve been waiting for today’s blog from Mr Mansfield...it’s been an emotional rollercoaster of a day here in Uganda! Will fill you in tomorrow on the way to the airport!
#NotReadyToComeHome
The
#SJPSCommunityCleanUp
has started! Super effort this afternoon from the year 5 pupils who went out litter-picking. As we worked, they talked about how they genuinely care around their community and want it to be the best it can be for everyone! So proud!
@NewportCouncil
Merry Christmas from all the staff at SJPS. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas with your families and loved ones! We'll miss you all and can't wait to hear if the big man in red with a white beard visits you!