St John's School, Macclesfield

We are a caring church school who help children to reach their potential and grow to be good people who make a difference in the world.

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Our sensory room has been up and running and put to great use by the children. Thanks to @Tesco for the support.

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ROCK ON! We have had a brilliant day dressing up as rock stars and practising our times tables. There have been lots of games and competitions between the classes.

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Well done to all of our musicians who have performed this afternoon. You all showed off your blossoming talent with confidence.

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Our vision team have been to visit our neighbours at Wykeham Chase today and the children were brilliant and enjoyed Easter crafts, colouring and games with the residents.

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The Explore group have been learning all about the Easter story.

We made some beautiful Easter gardens today.

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Our vision team led a wonderful bake sale to raise money for environmental charities this week. Well done to everyone for your hard work.

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Well done to our vision team who led our collective worship today all about climate change.

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Our Y5s have been learning all about fire safety this morning with a visit from our local fire team. They had a presentation, a Q&A and saw the fire engine and smoke tent up close.

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We have had a wonderful World Book Day sharing our love of reading.

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As part of book week some of our children have been visiting the library.

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Our local MP, Tim Roca, visited us today for a tour of the school and a good chat. The children gave him a tour of the classrooms and the outdoors including our woodland.

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We had a wonderful visit from a hedgehog this week as part of our non-fiction English work in KS1. The children have written some amazing reports!

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Superb art work from Y3&4 children today.

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This week the Y3 & Y4 children have been exploring the work of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe.  We have loved using magnifying lenses and viewfinders to look really closely at leaves and flowers before creating our own masterpieces!

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Amazing writing from our Y6s this morning. They have worked incredibly hard and produced some wonderful, mature writing. Well done everyone!

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Our amazing choir visited @TheChristieNHS this afternoon to share some beautiful songs.

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Congratulations to our rising swim star. We are very proud of your fantastic achievement and the award presented this morning by @EBLeisure

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We had a fantastic trip yesterday to the theatre to watch Sleeping Beauty. The children (and adults!) had a great time. We are very proud of our children's behaviour during the trip too. Well done everyone!

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What a wonderful afternoon we have had with our history celebration of VE day here at school. Dancing, singing, cakes and chatting! Thank you to all of our visitors!

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Park Lane school and ourselves have been working together to promote integration between mainstream and special schools. We have been to visit their wonderful school and we welcomed them to our nativity performance recently. The children were all brilliant.