Dear Parents and Carers,

What an exciting start to the Summer term we have had here at St James. Not only have the children returned to school ready to learn, and are already making fabulous progress, many year groups have already been on school trips. 

Year 1 went to Wisley Gardens on Wednesday this week to learn about plants;

Year 6 went to the Elmbridge Junior Citizen Workshop to complement their life skills lessons;

 Year 4 have began their swimming lessons for the term;

and Reception went on walk to Broadwater Lake and had a lovely picnic. 

All the children were excellent ambassadors for St James on all these trips and all demonstrated their school values during the visit. Thank you to all the parent helpers who volunteered to help, we could not run these curriculum enhancement visits without parental support. 

Also this week, a small group of Year 5 children returned to Reeds school, in Oxshott, to compete in the Launch Car Challenge. Well done Johan, David, Isla, Erin and Pippa who won the heats to compete for the school. They have all given up their time to create a presentation on their design and they raced their cars against 17 other schools yesterday at Reeds.  Johan and David's creation came 5th  and Isla, Erin and Pippa's car came 12th. Thank you to Miss Franklin, our DT Lead, who has coordinated and supported the children in this competition.