St James' News
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Thursday 12 February 2026 Happy National School Governors' Awareness Day 2026 On behalf of Forward as One, thank you to each and every one of our LAB Members, Trustees and Headteachers for your continued support, hard work and commitment across the Trust.
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Thursday 12 February 2026 Parent consultation meetings - thank you It was great to see so many of our parents and carers at the meetings with their child's class teachers yesterday. Thank you for taking the time to talk about your child's learning and progress. Our partnerships between home and school are so important. Thank you.
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Monday 9 February 2026 Children's Mental Health Week
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Thursday 5 February 2026 Safer Internet Day - Tuesday 10th Feb Links to games and activities to look at at home:
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Monday 2 February 2026 Class 6 People's History Museum Class 6 had a great visit into Manchester today.
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Monday 2 February 2026 Class 2 Hospital Visitor Class 2 had a visitor today from the hospital and he told us all about how hospitals and nursing has changed over the last 200 years. Thank you Mr McEntee.
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Thursday 29 January 2026 Nursery baking Our Nursery class children loved baking their traffic light biscuits.
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Thursday 22 January 2026 Class 3 Romans Some Roman citizens visited us today!
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Thursday 22 January 2026 Class 2 - Visit to Ashton Central Mosque Class 2 really enjoyed their trip to Ashton Central Mosque yesterday. We learnt all about Islam and how muslims live. Thank you for having us!
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Friday 16 January 2026 Vacancy for parent governors Join Our Journey – Become a Parent Governor!
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Thursday 1 January 2026 Happy new year!
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Friday 19 December 2025 Christmas Writing Extravaganza - Results Our fantastic runners up...
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Thursday 18 December 2025 Class 3 Geography Class 3 wrote sets of really clear map directions. They knew they were good, because Class 2 could follow them accurately.
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Thursday 18 December 2025 Christmas Singing in Ashton We had a fantastic time and were singing our socks off in Ashton today. There was even a special surprise visitor...
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Wednesday 17 December 2025 Nativity 2025 We thoroughly enjoyed our Nativity service at St James Church this week and were happy to share the messages of hope, love, joy and peace.
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Tuesday 16 December 2025 A special visitor St James' children have been very lucky this week to have visits and presents from a special someone... Father Christmas.
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Tuesday 16 December 2025 Christmas writing extravaganza Mrs Aarons set each class a writing challenge - either short Christmas narrative or Christmas poem - based on their random choices of hero, villain, setting and object. We were super impressed withe the effort and quality of the writing and excited to find out the winner (and runners up) for each class on Friday afternoon! Mrs Aarons has promised chocolatey prizes.
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Tuesday 16 December 2025 Admissions 2027-2028 Consultation Please visit the admissions page to find out more about the consultation and see how you can share your views: St James' CE Primary School - Admissions
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Friday 12 December 2025 Visit from Angela Rayner This year one of our children won 2nd prize in Angela Rayner's annual Christmas Card competition and it was a huge surprise for her when Angela came into her class this morning to present her with a certificate, a copy of the finished card (which will be sent to lots of people - including the prime minister and the King) and a wrapped up gift. We are super proud!
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Thursday 11 December 2025 Class 5 Hanukkah Assembly Class 5 shared the story behind the Jewish festival of Hanukkah with the whole school and their parents and carers.
