Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Lunch Winners!

  Fri 28 Feb 2020

  Congratulations to our lunch winners who have demonstrated the values of Risk-taking (Year 2-6) and Pretendasaur (EYFS-Year 1) this week. The children were rewarded with a special lunch with Mr Howell!

   

  Well done everyone!

   

  Next week, the values are Reflection and Thinkodocus.  

  

• Year 4 Anti-Bullying Raps

  Wed 26 Feb 2020

  https://www.sirjohnheron.newham.sch.uk/music-1/

   

  Visit the music page (link above) to find out about the anti-bullying raps Year 4 children composed in their music lessons. There are also videos of them performing their raps! Enjoy!

   

   

• International Women's Day

  Mon 24 Feb 2020

  International Women's Day will be taking place on Tuesday 3rd March. A free community event will be taking place on this day at the Jack Cornwell Community Centre from 10.30am-1.30pm, giving women the opportunity to take part in a number of different activities and sessions.

  

• World Book Day - 5th March 2020

  Mon 24 Feb 2020

  Thursday 5th March is World Book Day!

   

  It’s a day to celebrate authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

   

  As part of our celebrations, children are invited to come to school dressed as a character from a book. You could come dressed as someone from a classic novel, such as Oliver Twist, or come as someone from a more recent book. There are endless possibilities, and we are sure that you will have lots of ideas. If you can, bring a copy of the book that your character comes from.

  
  If you need some inspiration, visit https://www.worldbookday.com/dressing-up-ideas-2019/     

  

• KS2 Reading Cafe

  Fri 14 Feb 2020

  Reading Cafe - 13th February 

  This week, KS2 parents/carers were invited to Sir John Heron's first ever 'Reading Cafe', where they had the chance to participate in reading related activities in class, whilst enjoying fruit, cheese and crackers.

  To start off, parents/carers met staff in the hall for a taste of what the skill of 'inference' looks like in a typical reading lesson. They then had a go at discussing the characteristics of Hannah in the book 'Gorilla' by Anthony Browne. After this, parents/carers joined their children in class, and put some of these skills into practice. 

  

• Safer Internet Day at school

  Wed 12 Feb 2020

  On February 11th, Sir John Heron took part in Safer Internet Day. Every year group was given a different task to complete to promote E-Safety. The children had to think of different scenarios and represent them using various online design apps like Book Creator, Cartoon That, or Adobe Spark. The emphasis for the children was to make child-friendly resources that would teach other children ways of staying safe online. They looked at various scenarios like cyber-bullying, fraud, and private information and learnt the four steps on how to report inappropriate behaviour online by saving any evidence, blocking the person, logging off the website, and talking to a trusted adult. Children also learnt about these steps in assembly. Parents/ carers also attended an E-Safety workshop where they learnt about how to keep children safe online. Have a look at the pictures of the day in school.  

  

• SJH Times Table Champion

  Mon 10 Feb 2020

  Congratulations to Sara in Nightingale Class who won the Times Table Knockout Challenge to become the very first Sir John Heron Times Table Champion. She was presented by Mr Kundu with the Times Table Champion Trophy. She had tough competition from across the school with everyone recalling their multiplication tables with lightning speed! But the number of contestants narrowed after each round until Sara took top spot. Well done Sara!

  

• Ideas Day at Manor Park Library - Saturday 15th February

  Mon 10 Feb 2020
  

• Safer Internet Day

  Sun 09 Feb 2020

  The school is celebrating Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 11th February. Parents/ carers are invited to a workshop in the Main Hall to find out about internet safety and how to keep their children safe online. Children will also be learning about how to keep themselves online in lessons. 

   

  There are lots of places parents/ carers can go to find out out more information about internet safety and advice for how they can approach this subject with their children at home:

   

  • https://www.saferinternetday.org/web/sid/home
  • https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
  • https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
  • https://www.childnet.com/
  • https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/
  • https://www.iwf.org.uk/

  

• NSPCC Number Day

  Fri 07 Feb 2020

  We had a fabulous day celebrating Number Day and raising money for the NSPCC. Everyone dressed up for non-school uniform day and wore an item of clothing with a number on it. Maths lessons across the school were dedicated to Number Day. For example, in Year 2, children had to fill a flower bed by covering the board with just one type of flower, using Numicon shapes. We also had a special number assembly where teachers and children competed in a head-to-head times table challenge. 

   

  We raised £270.79 for the NSPCC