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• Monday 4 September 2023 Little Wandle Staff Training Phonics is a way of teaching pupils to read quickly and skilfully. It is essential that our approach to teaching phonics and reading is accessible to all pupils.
• Wednesday 12 July 2023 Student of the Year Assembly 2023 Today the school celebrated the achievements of the academic year. Two children from each class were nominated by their teachers for the following categories:
• Friday 9 June 2023 International Evening and A Special Visitor St James Hatcham had a wonderful afternoon on Friday 9th June when they celebrated International Evening, each class celebrated a country by performing a song from that country as well as preparing a special dish for everyone to try. Countries included:
• Wednesday 24 May 2023 Bromley High Shine Project!
• Wednesday 17 May 2023 EUROVISION HITS ST JAMES
• Monday 15 May 2023 Headteacher for the day Competition! We have invited the pupils of St James Hatcham to apply to become Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher for the day on Thursday 29th of June. Applications will be carefully considered and successful candidates will support the leadership team in developing school priorities and ensuring the smooth running of the school day. Good luck to all entries!
• Friday 12 May 2023 Bouncing into the weekend ... To celebrate the children's achievements at the end of SATs week, we had a special afternoon of fun! The children all let off some steam after a busy week - well done to Year 6 and all the parents, families and school staff who supported them.
• Friday 5 May 2023 A party fit for a king!
• Wednesday 26 April 2023 Action towards Sustainable Development Goal 12!
• Thursday 20 April 2023 It's oh-fish-ial ... We have a new classmate in Year 1!
• Monday 17 April 2023 Be Unique boutique is open for business! Come and visit us in Reception and step into their very own 'Be Unique Boutique'! Explore and express yourself, dress to impress and style yourself silly!
• Tuesday 14 March 2023 Goldsmiths University illustrators draw St James pupils!
• Wednesday 22 February 2023 Shrove Tuesday Today Year 1 learned about the importance of Shrove Tuesday and, linked to their Science topic, all about the 5 senses! They enjoyed an afternoon of pancake making and tried lots of sweet, savoury and sour toppings to discover more about the sense of taste!
• Wednesday 22 February 2023 Welcoming the Season of Lent Today’s Church service was an exciting start to the half term as the children worked together with Mrs Price to change the colours from green to purple ahead of the new liturgical season of Lent.
• Thursday 9 February 2023 Celebrating International day of Women and Girls in Science The St James Hatcham community celebrated ‘International Day of Women and Girls in Science’ and NSPCC Number Day this week.
• Wednesday 11 January 2023 Hitting the right note! We have been working hard behind the scenes with our brand new music specialist Mr Cryan who had his first full day with us here today! It was a spectacular start with classes full of singing, movement, music and joy.
• Monday 9 January 2023 Rising to the challenge To start the New Year in style, Reception have opened their own current bun bakery! These chefs have been hard at work and their tasty treats have left all our mouths watering - well done Reception!
• Monday 12 December 2022 Royal Hatcham special delivery service! Our children have been busy writing beautiful cards to their friends and school family. We have put on a special postal service in the afternoons this week in our school sorting office, making deliveries of our wonderful Christmas post to all our classrooms. Why not join in and post a letter to a friend this week
• Monday 21 November 2022 Welcome to a new member of our school family!
• Friday 18 November 2022 Like and follow! St James Hatcham is now on Instagram! You can follow us there to stay up to date with regular updates in your feed. Watch our stories, like and comment on our posts as we expand our followers! Let us know what you would like to see more of as we bring you the most up to date news from school!
• Monday 14 November 2022 Dinner Discussions! Did you know that as part of our School Transformation Plan we are improving Oracy across the school? As part of this, the children take part in weekly talk home learning!
• Tuesday 8 November 2022 Sign of the week Today marked the very first 'Sign of the week' and we are very lucky to be taught by Makaton expert Musa from Year 5.
• Saturday 15 October 2022 International School Award This is the top award granted by the British Council and is only given to schools with an established programme of activities around international education that is fully embedded across the school.
• Tuesday 4 October 2022 Pen pal project update! We have enjoyed communicating as part of a global community with partners from across the world for a number of years both virtually and through letter writing! Last year was our final year working with Fukushima Friends in Japan and this year we are very excited to announce that we are partnering with ...
• Tuesday 4 October 2022 Have you seen our brand new newsletter? We know how much our community value keeping in close communication with each other. This year we have overhauled our newsletter and are proud to share it with you. Please let us know if there is anything else you would like to see! You can read the September editions here.
• Tuesday 13 September 2022 A new Vicar for our school family! Revd Kingsley Yeboah has been instituted as Vicar of Hatcham, St James and St George with St Michael during the Summer break by the Bishop of Southwark.
• Wednesday 7 September 2022 Back to school! Staff returned back to school last week for 2 days of training. We have so much exciting learning planned for the children this year and in preparation spent some time perfecting our own skills in portraiture drawing and painting! Can you guess who the staff member is just from their portrait We look forward to having a gallery of the children's work up next!
• Wednesday 29 June 2022 Faith Group Ambassadors leading Church
• Thursday 23 June 2022 Our last session with Ms Brosnan! We had our last singing assembly and choir session with Ms Brosnan today! Ms Brosnan has really helped us develop our voices and skills through her fun, engaging and enthusiastic sessions! We all thank her sincerely!
• Tuesday 21 June 2022 Songfest 2022 Well done to these children for their fantastic performance duringSongFest 2022 at Deptford Green Schoolthis afternoon! SongFest is a showcase, put together by Lewisham Music, whereseveral schoolscome togethertoperform several songs they have learnt at school!Our children, once again, continued to shine with their talent &behaviour!
• Monday 20 June 2022 Meet our school MP A couple of weeks ago, Cyrilla in Year 6 had the enormous honour of representing the school as our school MP at the Children's Parliament! This was only the second ever Children's Parliament and schools from across the UK debated 'How do we make the world a safer place'. We are so proud of being a chosen school and also of Cyrilla for representing us. Watch out Boris Johnson - Cyrilla will be after the Prime Minister position soon!
• Saturday 18 June 2022 Hope4Justice - SJH Choir The SJH Choir took part in the Hope4Justice project produced by the Trinity Laban. Lewisham is the borough of culture (2022) and this was an urgent and powerful call to action, in a bid to make a difference dedicated to climate change. Our choir stood out not only for their singing talent but their hard work ethic, behaviour and respect for others. Well done to the children and Miss Zeina!
• Sunday 22 May 2022 St James Expressive Drawing CPD celebrated at Bow Arts The St James Hatcham staff team enjoyed and excelled at their Expressive Drawing CPD by Bow Arts and are now featured on their website.
• Tuesday 17 May 2022 Healthy Hatcham campaign! This week, the Global Scholars club launched St James' Healthy Hatcham campaign. This week is dedicated to healthy food choices in addition to learning about the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
• Thursday 24 February 2022 Piano playing delights! Our new piano tutor is enjoying her time with her new group of musicians. The children have already made great progress and should be ready to perform to parents at the Summer Term music concert!
• Sunday 6 February 2022 Another wonderful addition to the St James family! Welcome to our wonderful new Art Therapy student, Miu! We are lucky to have Miu working with us here at school for 2 days a week. We hope she experiences the very warm welcome all our children and families extend to new members of our school community.
• Monday 31 January 2022 Zones of Regulation workshop for parents A huge thank you to our friends at Drumbeat for running a fantastic workshop for parents and carers from across the school! We follow the Zones of Regulation curriculum at St James and experienced a fantastic turn out to our very first in person whole school workshop since the pandemic hit schools in 2020. Thank you to all our families who contributed their ideas, wisdom and experiences. We had parents from Reception all the way up to year 6 join us fortea and biscuits -we spent over 2 hours discussing ways to better support the emotional literacy of our children and even tried a few relaxation techniques ourselves. Keep an eye out in the school newsletter for more Zones of Regulation news!
• Tuesday 14 December 2021 Praise for St James learning environments! The staff at St James were praised in December's Lewisham SENCO update for our school environment. The SEND Advisory Service noted how our displays create a calmer learning environment for pupils that focused on developing vocabulary and independence. They mentioned our use of technology in displays and how QR codes helped the children learn more about their topics!
• Wednesday 8 December 2021 Meet our Westminster Three! Yesterday Kamsi, Delanie and Ifijen attended a welcome event for this year's Westminster Platform project. The project selects promising Year 5 pupils to work on a year long enrichment project at Westminster School - one of the U.K.'s top independent schools. The project will booster their maths and English learning beyond Year 5 in additional to teaching new subjects such as Latin, Greek, Drama, Art, Science and Engineering. Once the project is completed, all three children will have the opportunity to have a supported application to independent schools if they wish and we have had great successes in the past. Only 44 Year 5 pupils from across London have been chosen so we are proud to have 3 members of our St James Hatcham family attend again this year. Well done to all three.
• Tuesday 30 November 2021 Choir's performance at The Turning Of The Year Concert This evening our choir performed an acapella version of 'Wade In The Water' by The Spirituals. Their unity as a vocal group was strong and clear; receiving many positive praise from audience members! Well done to the children, Miss Zeina and Miss Dowdye - we are all so proud!
• Tuesday 16 November 2021 Choir's visit with Clare Caddick Choir had a great visit from Clare Caddick, the Vocal Leader at Lewisham Music, ahead of their participation in the Turning of The Year Concert. It was lovely to see her after so long and even better to sing along with her! We are so excited for the performance now!
• Tuesday 16 November 2021 Karate Club are getting serious! It is great to see the children from Years 1 & 2 getting to grips with discipline in Karate Club. This is only their second week and they are already looking like experts.
• Saturday 13 November 2021 The Rights Respecting Group write to Lewisham Council. Following up from St James' COP26 work, a school climatechange pledge has been in making which involves communityactions to reduce our carbon footprint. Yesterday, the Rights Respect Group formed a letter that has nowbeen sent out to Lewisham governors regarding the communityactions from the pledge that will hopefully be considered in futuremeetings. Please have a readbelow as the children really worked hard to write this!
• Thursday 11 November 2021 Art Club VIP Tour of CCA Gallery and Lanyard Making Our KS2 art club had the pleasure of a VIP tour of Goldsmith's CCA gallery by the wonderful Trish and Thea. We took a deeper look in to Eugenio Dittborn's work, even listening to Mia (Y6) read and translate the Spanish print in his artwork.
• Thursday 11 November 2021 Year 3 and 4's Climate Change Workshop! On Tuesday this week, Year 3 and 4 continued their COP26 Climate Change activist work by taking part in an engaging workshop run by the wonderful students of Goldsmith University.
• Monday 8 November 2021 Year 2 palaeontologists Today Year 2 became palaeontologists as we used a chisel and brush to dig up some fossilised dinosaurs!
• Friday 5 November 2021 Happy Diwali 2021! Happy Diwali to all of our Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Buddhist friends and families if you are celebrating this week!
• Thursday 4 November 2021 Eugenio Dittborn Artist Workshop with Sycamore Class This morning Reception were full of excitement for their very first artist workshop over at Goldsmith's CCA gallery. We explored the work of Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn and were taken on a tour of the gallery by the wonderful artist Mira who had lots of ways to keep our children engaged and curious about art.
• Thursday 4 November 2021 Year 3's Meat Free Meal!
• Wednesday 3 November 2021 Faith Group Ambassadors COP26 workshop Our Faith Group Ambassadors, accompanied by Ms Price & Miss Zeina, attended a workshop focused onthe 4 R's - reimagination, relationships, respect and responsibility surrounding climate change from a Christian perspective. This was a great way for us to kickstart our work on COP26 this week.
• Tuesday 2 November 2021 Playground Buddies in action! Play is such an important part of the day at St James Hatcham! Our Year 6 Play Buddies were out in the infant playground today playing fun,collaborative games with our youngest pupils. They were busy teaching rules and encouraging everyone to join in! Today Jayda taught the classic game, 'Duck, duck, goose' - well done to our fantastic Play Buddies!
• Saturday 23 October 2021 Olamide attends the Wigmore Hall. Olamide in Year 6 was invited to the Wigmore Hall last night to watch the Piatti Quartet play. They had a spare ticket and Olamide was nominated for it due to her focus and love of classical music. Olamide looked so smart amongst the other classical music fans and made the school very proud.
• Friday 22 October 2021 Team 5 were there to see Little Amal's arrival in Lewisham.
• Wednesday 20 October 2021 Olivia Sterling workshop with Art Club Our KS2 Arts Award club had the pleasure of meeting contemporary artist Olivia Sterling at the Goldsmiths CCA gallery today. This was our first artist workshop of the year to kickstart our time as school in residence at the gallery.
• Friday 8 October 2021 Our very own medal winner! Well done to Khamari in Team 4 forwinningPlatformCricket“Playerof theWeek” Award. Jonathon, the Platform Cricket coach,put forwardKhamari at St James Hatcham because he has demonstrated great talent, fine motor skills and an appetite to improve,in equalmeasures. He was picket out of 4,000 other young cricket players across the U.K. and we couldn't be prouder.
• Monday 4 October 2021 Great to have Ms Brosnan back! It was wonderful to have Ms Charlotte Brosnan from the Voices Foundation back in leading our singing assembly. The children always sing beautifully and you can feel the joy around the whole school!
• Monday 27 September 2021 Year 5 first Pen-Pal letters
• Friday 24 September 2021 Performing Arts Stay tuned to see new stars of the future develop!
• Tuesday 21 September 2021 Year 2 reading group
• Tuesday 21 September 2021 SEND Advisory Visit We are so pleased to welcome back visitors to school. Yesterday our SEND advisor Beate took a tour of the school and met with our SENCO, Mrs Fabian. They discussed lots of exciting projects for the year and working collaboratively with other Lewisham schools to share the wonderful provision we have in place for our pupils with SEND. Mrs Fabian was very proud to show off the pupils in their fantastic new uniforms!
• Monday 2 August 2021 Welcome to our new website

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