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The Salford Diocese School for
Children & Young People with SEND
Headteacher’s Message: Dear Parents/Carers,
I do hope that you and your family had a pleasant break last week. The children came back to school this week full of energy and keen to tell of the events of their week and the things they had been up to. It is clear that many benefited from the excellent weather we had during the half term break, which pleasingly continued into this week. It has been lovely to see to so many children outside at break and lunchtimes enjoying the early February sunshine. The chil-dren have certainly quickly settled back into the routines of School.
This half term is almost 7 weeks long; it takes us right through Holy Week, with us breaking up on Maundy Thursday (18th April) for a short Easter break. With Lent almost upon us the Chaplaincy team this week were engaged in a retreat day where they were planning the liturgical programme of Lent for our children. The first event to mark the start of Lent will be our Ash Wednesday service in the Chapel, next Wednesday at 9:30 am. The team have also been busy preparing how we will get the whole School to embrace the Lenten period and have come up with a number of ex-citing ideas, not only about what they can give up but also about what they can do more. I look forward to sharing their ideas with you over the forthcoming weeks.
Could I remind parents of the really important Parents’ Evening event, which will take place in School on Tuesday 26th March from 5-7pm. It is imperative that parents and carers do all they can to attend on the evening to discuss the progress being made by their child.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Mr A Moloney
@StJohnVianneySc
Reminder from Miss Nesbitt: Please could parents of all KS3 pupils return the Parent
View and Professional Link paperwork for the EHCP Reviews to Miss Nesbitt as soon
as possible. Reviews are taking place throughout March. Thank you!
PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTION: RESULTS Thank you to all parents and carers who returned their ballot papers for the parent governor
election. We are pleased to announce that Mr Isherwood-Smith has been elected as the
new Parent Governor. Congratulations to Mr Isherwood-Smith! The new role will start in
his new role in the forthcoming Governors’ meeting at the beginning of April.
SJV pupils having a great time in the sunshine!
Introducing... Miss.Murphy
Role in School: I’m the teacher in Orange Class (Class 1). What I’ve been doing this week: This week in Orange Class we went
swimming on Monday – we love splashing about in the pool in our weekly
sessions. We’ve also started a new topic called Grow It, and we planted
some sunflower seeds in pots. The children are looking forward to seeing
them grow – maybe we’ll have a competition to see whose grows the
tallest! I’ve also been to visit another school called Pictor Academy, where
I saw some super lessons and enjoyed gaining some new ideas for Orange
Class.
What is best about being in SJV? For me, the best thing is the staff at
SJV. Everyone wants the very best for the children we work with, and
everybody is so supportive of one another. I also think we’re really lucky
to have such open and spacious classrooms, where there’s plenty of space
for children to get focussed in a workstation, but also be able to work
around a group table too.
It would be even better if… We had some more onsite facilities like a soft
play room or a hydrotherapy pool – Orange
Class would make very regular visits to these!
Hopes and dreams for the future: I’m looking
forward to continuing my teaching journey at
SJV, with hopefully more training like PECS and
the TEACCH approach. I’m looking forward to
meeting more children at SJV over the coming
years and seeing them blossom into well-
balanced, kind young adults through effective
teaching and specialist support.
Christmas Fair
A Day in the life of… Zack
What I've been doing this week: Swimming. I
went swimming in the deep end with Thomas this
week. And then we had pasta bolognese for lunch.
We also planted sunflower seeds outside in the sun.
What is the best thing about being in SJV? Swim-
ming is the best thing, and the lunches. The best
lunch is pasta bolognese and rice pudding.
It would be even better if… I could bring my dog
Alfie to school.
Hopes and dreams for the future: I want to be a
taxi man. I would drive to
Farnworth because there’s
an Asda there. I would buy a
melon and some kiwis.
Our Catholic School It’s wonderful to be back and to see everyone again and catch up all that’s been happen-
ing in and out of School. The Chapel is looking particularly smart having been painted
and the School’s Chaplains have helped give it a good tidy up. It’s been a busy start to
the term with the full team going out on retreat on Wednesday morning to the Spiritan
centre with Mrs Garfin and Father Pat. Here we have been planning for Lent at SJV, and
rehearsing for our upcoming Ash Wednesday Service.
SJV’s scripture focus this week has been Matthew 5:16, ‘Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.’ One of
our favourite songs at SJV is: ‘This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine’. Jesus said
that we (His disciples) are the light of the world. We must not hide that light under a
bushel or in a church building. We must let it shine. How will people see that light?
Through our good works. SJV is planning on doing lots of good works throughout Lent,
so watch this space! In Religious Education we have been looking at what we can do to
‘let our little light shine’ by coming up with ideas for our charity appeals and planning the
acts of kindness we will do throughout Lent. It’s going to be a wonderful run up to East-
er at SJV with our children and young people leading the way with good works and kind-
ness, showing how much SJV lets them shine .
My name is Katharina Pauly, and I’m from Germany. I’ve spent the past
year as a volunteer in Manchester. I lived at the Spiritan Centre, together
with the Just Youth Team which collaborates with schools, parishes and
action groups. I worked regularly at St John Vianney School, and found it to be a very enriching experience. The strong
team spirit of the School staff, their friendliness and their devotion to their work, are very impressive and inspiring.
I enjoyed being a part of the School community because of the School’s strong religious ethos and close relationship to the
charity organisations Revive, Conerstone and MacMillan Cancer Support. Working with the Chaplaincy Team, preparing
and participating in the School’s religious classes with Father Pat, attending worship services, staff reflections and welfare
events really helped me to grow in faith. Thanks to all the staff, especially Mrs Garfin for your guidance, encouragement
and selfless support. I’m very thankful for that and wish the School and the future volunteers all the best.
Chaplaincy Team
We are all excited in School about taking part in World Book day 2019 on the 7th March. The theme this year is 'story telling' and we will be celebrating in the following way: pupils in Rainbow and class 5 are all looking for-ward to coming to school in their pyjamas ready for a bed-time story theme. Pupils in classes 6 - 12 are wel-come to dress as favourite characters or authors or bring in one of their favourite stories to school. Lots of story telling activities will take place throughout the day. A letter is going out to parents and carers this week with a £1 book token attached and instructions for how you can use it. Go to https://www.worldbookday.com/ for ideas and more infor-mation.
Literacy
Corner
Rainbow Building
Green Class have been studying the UK in Topic, and recently focused on Wales. The stu-dents painted these amazing Welsh dragons using their hand prints for the body and painted the rest using brushes. - what beautiful artwork!
City in the Community
Mr Cassidy would like to re-
mind all parents and carers
about our fantastic partner-
ship with Manchester City in
the Community, which pro-
vides our pupils with regular
opportunities to get active,
play football, and even watch
some matches! Now we have
a great opportunity for par-
ents and carers to get in-
volved too. There will be a
Football Festival taking place
on Saturday 9th March 2019,
which is FREE to join in. For
your free tickets and further
information, go to:
mancity.com/samegoals.
The children in the Rainbow
Building have had a fantastic
first week back in School. In
Science we have been looking
at plants and the children went
outside to find different plants,
trees and flowers. All the chil-
dren had fun at swimming this
week, and Szymon got his 25
metre certificate - well
done! Our attendance prize
winners this week are Thomas,
Jordon, Patrick, Nesrine and
Ethan.
Class 5 have had a great first
week back after the holidays
and have picked up some eggs
from Farmer Dot. In Science
we have been learning about
the life cycle of chickens, and
put the eggs into the incubator
to help them grow from egg
into hatchlings (chicks) in about
3 weeks! We will keep you up-
dated on their progress.
Class 5:
Farm Visit
Class 9:
First Aid
Training
Class 9 are learning about First Aid. Today we were doing CPR. Class 9 have done tremendous-ly well and have completed this topic with great enthusiasm and a profes-sional approach. They will soon be getting certificates. Well done Class
Post-16 Visit:
Media
Museum
Post-16 visited the Media Mu-
seum in Bradford this week. The
trip was thoroughly enjoyed by
all, and they particularly en-
joyed the Wonderland science
and animation exhibitions.
The students who attend
Gorse Hill have been working
on art projects and scenery for
their media film. They have
produced some amazing work
and always work really hard.
Well done Ellie, Anas, Owen,
Ceiara and India. Ms Lord.
In Work Skills this week, the
students had to work in
teams, and allocate differ-
ent roles to each team
member: ‘thinker, workers,
and quality checker’. The
aim was to see who could
build the highest tower
with the resources they
had. Connor’s team built a
huge tower but Alex’s team
worked better strategically.
Well done Class 10!
Ms Lord.