Link with the Age Concern Day Centre, Keynsham

Over the last few years, St John's have been building links with the Age Concern Day Centre at The Hawthorns, just a few minutes walk from our School.

Year 6 WW2 Blitz Project

Year 6 visited the Hawthorns as part of their topic on World War 2 in term 4. The Age Concern members kindly agreed to be interviewed by the children, who listened with great interest to their stories of life during the Blitz. 'It is amazing to get to speak to people who were alive as children in the war,' one of the Year 6's said.

Then, later in term 4, the children returned the favour! They invited members of Age Concern as well as some of their own relatives who were alive in the war to visit the school for a VE Day Celebration! Over 45 guests attended the celebration and the children worked extremely hard to make it a memorable occasion for everyone!

There was singing, dancing, WW2 cakes (which the children made to the original recipes), bomb shelters from the children's homework project and lots of discussion the tables about the War and the children's work during the topic.

Year 4 joint Art Project

Mrs Percival and her class of Year 4 children were involved in a combined art project with the Day Centre at the Hawthorns.