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Relationships and sex education parent meeting – 01/12/16
RSE (Relationships and Sex education) is lifelong learning about physical, moral and emotional development.
It is about the understanding of the importance of marriage for family life, stable and loving relationships, respect, love and care. It is also about the teaching of sex, sexuality and sexual health.
John Perryn Primary School had arrived at the stage where it wanted to involve parents in its discussions in order to make them feel comfortable and safe, see below.
Christmas Shoe boxes – Operation Christmas Child
A small shoebox can have a big impact. What goes into the box is fun, but what comes out of it is eternal. Be a part of changing children’s lives through the power of a simple gift with Operation Christmas Child.
Our Ambassadors have been going round collecting the shoebox items over the last two weeks. Our initial challenging target was to fill in a minimum of 70 boxes and thanks to all your support we will exceed our expectations! See below…
Year 5 trip – THREE WHEELS Shin Buddhist Temple
On Monday and Tuesday, November 21st and 22nd, Year 5 went on a school trip to a Japanese Buddhist Temple called The Three Wheels in Acton Town. This trip was planned to extend children’s knowledge and understanding on the topic they are currently studying, Buddhism.
First of all they went to look at the garden – it was very calm and tidy! If you want to know more about the garden, click here
In the temple house, it was nice and quiet and they heard from Professor Sato who told them facts about Buddhism. It was extremely interesting!
To know more about Three Wheel, please click here.
Children in Need – Year 1 Assembly
Children in Need 2016
At John Perryn we got involved by asking everyone to donate £1 and come to school wearing spots. There were some fantastic Pudsey costumes around the school too! A lot of fun was had and all for a great cause.
Parent reading workshop – 15.11.16
Thanks to all the parents who attended John Perryn’s Reading workshop. We hope you found it useful and feel more informed about how to help your child with reading at home. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Anti Bullying Week – School Council Video
Home Friendly Football Matches – 09.11.16
Our school played a brilliant football match on Wednesday 9th November in the first match of the season.
Results:
Boys: John Perryn 3 – 2 East Acton
Girls: John Perryn 5 – 0 East Acton
Thank you to John Perryn and East Acton for showing a great fair play!
Future Perfect Performance Yr6
THE SHOW
Tall Stories co-directors Olivia Jacobs and Toby Mitchell wanted to create a show for children in Year 6 – who will shortly be making the transition to secondary school. They decided to work around the themes of decision-making (as secondary school is when children really start making some of their own decisions) and time travel.
Olivia and Toby came up with an idea for the show – that a 10-year-old wishes he could go back in time to change a really bad decision he made a week ago.
They then worked together to make the idea into a story – and held a weeklong workshop with five actors, a set designer and a sound designer to develop the story for the stage.
Then Olivia (assisted by Natalia Scorer) spent two weeks directing Toby and his 10-year-old son Dominic in the original version of the show, which played for two weeks at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, enjoyed by audiences and critics alike.
Finally, the creative team rewrote the script for two grown-up actors to perform in schools, and developed it with a new cast during three weeks of rehearsals prior to the schools tour.
As part of the show, students created their own personal Time Machines –double-sided cards which contain moments (good and bad) from their past on one side and on the other side, dreams to make their future perfect.