Celebrating Chinese New Year in school is a wonderful way to promote cultural awareness and understanding among our children. During this festival, many participate in activities such as cleaning their homes, attending vibrant parades and giving gifts to bring good fortune for the upcoming year.

The children enjoyed a Chinese inspired menu together at lunch time and activities throughout the day to celebrate together.

Well done to St James girls who battled hard in three very tough, against strong opposition on Wednesday afternoon.

The girls worked hard for each other and played until the final whistle in each of those games.

They sit in mid table going into the third round of games later this term.

One of the Trust’s key values is Celebration and as part of this we began hosting our annual Chadwick Celebration Awards in  2022. We are proud of our staff and this is an opportunity to showcase the valuable and inspiring contributions our staff are making across the organisation to achieve our overall mission: Better Schools, Better Communities, Better Futures in Christ. 

Get all of the information and find out how to nominate by clicking the link below!

Chadwick Celebration Awards – Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust

Please take a look at our end of Autumn Term blogs, what a busy term it has been! https://www.stjameshebburn.co.uk/our-classes/

Christmas allows us the opportunity to pause and give thanks for the love, hope and joy found in Jesus. We wish our families and children a safe, happy and warm Christmastime, filled with love and togetherness. We thank you as always for your support in all that we do at St James. We look forward to seeing everyone again on Monday 6th January, which is the first day of Spring Term.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

We are thrilled for Indie who won the Annual Christmas Card Competition held by Kate Osbourne MP. The theme this year was Community at Christmas and these cards have been posted throughout South Tyneside. Well done Indie, the runners up and all who entered the competition and a big thank you to Kate!

Thank you to Chadwick’s Kitchen for providing our Christmas Lunch menu today and for the Christmas Crackers! Special thanks to Sara our Cook in Charge and our wonderful Kitchen Staff for preparing such a beautiful meal for us all to share! At the heart of our festive traditions we remember those who do not have as much as us and we give thanks for the food we have to eat. The children always enjoy this important meal together.

Children and families are warmly invited to “Carols around the Crib” at St James Church before Christmas Eve Mass at 6:30pm. It is advised to arrive early as this is really a lovely and very popular service. There are plans for the children during the service. Please return your slip if you intend to come along at 6:30pm with your child.

We are proud to have teamed up with Colgate this year to promote oral health in children. Your child will receive a toothbrush and toothpaste, alongside an informative leaflet around toothbrushing.

At St James we are a Healthy School and are championing a zero-cavity future for our children to work to end the world’s most prevalent chronic disease: tooth decay.

Left untreated, it can cause pain and discomfort, undermine self-esteem and quality of life, impact school attendance and more. We want to work together to create a school community of bright smiles and even brighter futures.

We hope you will support us and encourage good oral health at home.

We will soon be using Arbor as our text messaging service. We are moving towards one system. It’s really important that you sign up so that we can keep you updated. You can message us within the arbor app and can also request changes to your child’s profile information like contacts, addresses and telephone numbers by simply clicking on the information and correcting it – the office will then be alerted to your request. You can now see any reward points your child receives and their attendance.

Please find out how to download the app and sign up here Parent Portal and Parent App leaflet