Thanks to our shopaholic parents who have shopped until they have dropped through easyfundraising.org.uk for the good of St James School PTFA.

If you shop online and haven’t tried it do have a look and shop through easyfundraising.org.uk. You are bound to find most of your favourite shops here because you can choose from over 2,000 of the UK's best-known retailers including many popular names such as Amazon, Next, Argos, John Lewis and HMV.

You can nominate St James CE Primary School to receive a contribution from the shops you have bought from. It really is easy to do and on average the school will receive 3% of what you spend. Tell everyone you know – relatives, friends. Make sure you choose St James Hereford as there are several PTFAs with similar names.

NB It doesn't cost a penny extra to shop and raise funds for the PTFA using this site, and as many retailers now give extra discounts when you buy online, you can even save money!

Please bring into school any unwanted good quality school uniform that your child may have outgrown, as the P.T.F.A. would like to sell them at a stall at our School Fete on the 19th June. Buying recycled uniform is easier on the pocket and eco-friendly!

We would like to thank all parents who use our mobile number to text or phone-in their child’s absence. The system is working well, so please continue to use it! Just to remind you, the number is 07794261716

On the 17thMay Class five had a visit from the fire service. We were split in to three groups. Then we went around different activities to learn about different things.

The first activity was learning about where to put smoke alarms and where not to put them. You should put them in the hallway and landing but you should not put them in the kitchen.

The second activity was how to make a 999 call and what to say. We pretended we were making a 999 call and to help us, we had scripts to follow.

The third activity was to learn an escape plan. There was escape plan A and escape plan B. Escape plan A was to touch your door handle with the back of your hand. If it is not hot you should be able to go straight down stairs and out of the front door. Escape plan B is if the door is blocked or the door handle is hot, you should go to the safest room and close the door and use towels or blankets to keep out the smoke. You then need to open the window and shout ‘FIRE!’

The visit was interesting and has made us all think about the dangers of fire.

By Molly Kedward & Charlotte Strike

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Class 3 have been learning about the Romans and on May 12th they had a visit from the Hereford Museum. The children wrote about the visit:
‘I enjoyed being an archaeologist and a slave. I ground rosemary and someone else ground fennel, and someone else sage.’ Gethin Teague.
‘I had fun grinding herbs in a mortarium. The herbs were fennel, rosemary and sage. I liked watching the herbs get smaller. I made a mortarium out of broken up bits.’ Josef Everard.
‘Today I learnt about the Romans, I learnt that the Romans used clay pots as cooking pots, the Romans had lots of slaves, and that a mortarium is a Roman mashing pot. I learnt what it was like to be an archaeologist and what it was like to be a slave. We ground sage, fennel and rosemary.’ Daniel Beddoes.

It has been a very good start for the Summer Term as the following children have all received a Headteacher’s award for working very hard, showing improvement and for various other achievements. Well done!

Alfie Paton, Noah, Bellerby, Bethany Bradley, Ruby Portis, Connor Duhig, Diloja Jeyanand, Keeley Davies, Tommy Bishop, Sophia Allen, Rees Newton-Sealey, Edward Pritchard, Ryan Harris, Pamela Scott, Evan Harris, Aimee Hattersley, Lauren Williams, Vivi Morley, Artie Campbell, Jeremy Dijkens, Liberty Jones, Paige Delaney, Archie Laws, Jacob Fish, Afika Matli, Josh Hider, Josh Williams, William Morris, and Ryan Phillips.

We have just given each class teacher £100 to spend on something of their choice for their classroom. Watch this space to see what they buy.

The school have just received over £200 worth of books which they chose from the Scholastic Book Club. This has been paid for using the vouchers that we received from your Book Club orders from this year so far. Please keep ordering since this is a really good way for the school to get new resources for the classrooms.

CR - £40.80
C1 - £39.45
Thanks to those who have made, bought and consumed.

Class 3 and Class 5 are currently taking part in ‘Moving Targets’ (a dance and drama project). On Friday April 23rd Class 3 visited Point 4 which is situated at the Royal National College for the Blind and on Wednesday April 28th Class 5 visited the The Courtyard, this gave both classes the opportunity to spend the whole day at an exciting venue for their first workshop. The Moving Targets project is being led by Mrs Laura Gale (a dance and drama teacher). The workshops will continue in school for several weeks and the children will perform their routine to the rest of the school on June 11th.

Class 5 will visit The Courtyard again for a morning workshop on Wednesday 23rd June. On Wednesday the 30th June they will take part in a Moving Targets performance, with Lord Scudamore Primary School at The Courtyard in the evening, more details to follow nearer the time.