Healthy Schools Award

Our school will be inspected by Liverpool Archdiocese Christian Education Team on Tuesday, 7th November.

Please don’t forget to return your completed surveys byMonday, 6th November.  There will be blank copies available if you have forgotten your own.  We hope to capture your views about your child’s experience at our school and your own experiences of the Religious Education that the school provides.

School will close for half term on Friday, 20^th October at 3/3.10pm.  There is a staff training day on Monday, 30^th October and children will return on Tuesday, 31^st October at 8.55am

Next Friday, 20^th October, The Book People Bus will visit our school.  It will park on our car park throughout the day and children will be taken over to visit and interact with the resources on board.  There is a catalogue coming home tonight and the bus will be available for parents to visit and purchase books of required.  School will receive 10% of all sales so that we can replenish our own library.

On Friday morning, we will be going over to church to celebrate and launch our new school Mission Statement. A lot of work with children, staff, parents and governors went into creating our new Mission

‘Believe in the light and you will be children of the light’. John 12: 36

You are more than welcome to join us in church to celebrate this special event on Friday 20^th October from around 9.10am.

Summer Activities

Below, there are a number of summer schemes now on both the Family Information Service/Local Offer and ‘Places to Go, Things to Do’ Knowsley websites – links below:

http://youthactivitiesinknowsley.co.uk/ (under Activities for SEN&D)

https://www.knowsleyinfo.co.uk/content/short-breaks-summer-2017

https://www.knowsleyinfo.co.uk/taxonomy/term/980

We are conducting a survey which we hope will help us to measure how much interest there is for St John Fisher to open a nursery. If the feedback is positive, we would be looking to provide a nursery that is flexible for working parents- not a traditional school nursery approach so please let us know your thoughts.  The survey is not just for parents with young children; we’d also like to hear from those of you who have older children who may or may not have chosen to use a nursery based at St John Fisher if you had had the opportunity.  Please click on the link below .  We want to get as many opinions as possible.  Thank you.

SJF Nursery Survey May 2017

Parent’s Meeting- Child Criminal Exploitation

 “Child Criminal Exploitation is a rapidly emerging issue which is a major concern for our communities.”

(Quote from Merseyside’s Police Commissioner Jane Kennedy)

As a consequence of the above statement Knowsley and Sefton Councils have arranged for two workers to be commissioned to raise awareness of Child Criminal Exploitation and who will discuss peer pressure and other issues with our Y5/6 children.

On Tuesday, 16^th May at 5.30pm, Mark Reynolds from the Child Criminal Exploitation team in Knowsley will be holding a  meeting for parents and carers to discuss this theme This presentation will enable them understand:

• What Child Criminal Exploitation is
• How and why children are exploited
• Factors which make children vulnerable to exploitation
• Gang culture and its organisation
• What to watch for (signs and behaviours of an exploited child)
• What parents can do to combat exploitation
• Where to seek help if they are worried that their child or a child is being exploited
• Consequences of gang involvement

If you be interested in attending this meeting, regardless of the age of your child, please fill in the reply slip below. The meeting will be for adults only and is open to other family member or friends who may not have children in this school.

Planned Budget Cuts March 2017

Above is the letter sent to parents this week regarding planned cuts to the School budgets.

Short breaks for children and young people survey

Please find below a communication from Knowsley council:

Good afternoon

Knowsley Council is currently reviewing its Short Break Service for Children and Young People and we would like you to tell us what you think works well and what we could do better.

To do this, we have created an online survey for you to complete and the information you provide will feed into the review of the Short Breaks Service and help improve and shape services in future.

The link to the survey is https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NDZPKSF.  This survey is now open and will close for feedback at 5pm on Wednesday 8^th March 2017.

We now have an Early Help/ Family First Children with Disabilities Team. The team signpost and provide information, advice and support to families who have a child with a disability.  The team are also in the process of creating materials to improve how they get the views of children and young people on the services they receive. You can contact the Team for further information on 0151 443 3159.

Many thanks for your input.

Lisa

Lisa Corkhill

Communications & Engagement Officer – Commissioning Team

School will break up for the Easter holidays at 1.30pm on Friday, 7th April.

We return at 8.55am on Monday, 24th April.