Category: School: St. John’s School, Warminster

Warminster Schoolchildren Plant Flowers In The Lake Pleasure Grounds (Town Park)

Wednesday 1st August 2018

For the third year in a row Warminster schools have been taking part in “planting in the park.”

Assisted by Warminster Town Council, pupils plant flower beds in the Lake Pleasure Grounds (Town Park) creating beautiful displays for the public to enjoy. The initiative was introduced in 2016 when the Council took over Warminster’s award-winning Lake Pleasure Grounds and is proving very popular with schools.

Amongst the schools taking part this year are St. George’s Catholic Primary School, New Close School, Princecroft School and St John’s School.

Planting by pupils from 
New Close Primary School.

Pupils from Princecroft Primary School
have incorporated a ‘P’ in their display.

Colourful planting by pupils of
St. George’s Catholic Primary School.

 Green-fingered work from pupils
of St. John’s Primary School.

The scheme allows children to design layouts and grow plants and flowers. It teaches them about different types of plants and how they grow and respond to different conditions. Signs provided by Warminster Town Council mean that the public can see which schools have planted which area. Park users have been full of praise for the vibrancy and colour the flower beds add to the park. Perhaps it will spark a lifelong interest in gardening or horticulture amongst some of the pupils and we will see them on Gardeners World.

In October there will be a winter planting to look out for.

The Original St. John’s School Building, Warminster, Is Up For Sale ~ Asking Price £300,000

Sunday 2nd August 2015

The original St. John’s School, Boreham Road, Warminster, is up for sale, now that a new school has been built and is in use at the rear of the location.

The asking price is £300,000.

The selling agents are Humberts (Salisbury).
Telephone 01722 443024.
http://www.humberts.com/property-to-buy/wiltshire-warminster-boreham-road-ba12/2872/

  Humberts describe the property: “The semi-detached property comprises a  Grade II Listed former school building dating from circa 1870. It is of local stone construction under a double pitched clay tiled roof. The building has ashlar Bath stone quoins and Gothic style doors and windows with ashlar Bath stone mullions.”

Read more at http://www.humberts.com/property-to-buy/wiltshire-warminster-boreham-road-ba12/2872/#aOWkmScQvxS3S6LD.99

 Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Sunday 2nd August 2015.

Time Is Up For Long-Serving Classrooms At St. John’s School, Warminster

Monday 27th May 2013

The pre-fab classrooms at St. John’s School, Boreham Road, Warminster, which have served well for many years, are about to be demolished.

New buildings are ready or nearing completion and will replace these old classrooms.

These classrooms are expected to be demolished during the week commencing 27th May 2013.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Monday 27th May 2013.

Hundreds of pupils will have been taught in these classrooms over the years.

The demolition will not only mark the end of an era but also a new beginning in the history of the school.

Those who were taught here, will no doubt have their memories jogged by these photos.

News From St. John’s School, Warminster

Monday 1st October 2012

Sheelagh Wurr writes:

St. John’s School may look like a building site from the outside, as the building of our new school is now well under way. However, inside, there are big improvements already. The Early Years’ classroom now has its very own toilets and there is a smart new disabled toilet in the hall as well as the large store cupboard adjoining the kitchen, which has made Liz, our cook, very happy. The badgers have been given a brand new luxury apartment block and we hope that they will settle there and keep away from the main building!

Already, the children are looking ahead to the opening of the new school. The older children have been reading the log book which holds records of school events from 1872 when the school opened with 48 pupils in the morning and 44 in the afternoon.

At the beginning of term the school had a visit from a Victorian Headteacher which gave them a flavour of school in the early days of St. John’s.

Church visits are planned for all the classes before half term. The new children have already been in to explore, and enjoyed the experience. One very little boy pointed to the font and said excitedly, “My baby brother was born in there!”

On 28th September, the Harvest Festival service was held in church. This year, to encourage the children to think of children further afield and to support a local good cause, the school offered two ways to donate for harvest.

First, families had the opportunity to purchase fair-trade rice through a scheme called ‘The 90kg Challenge’. This scheme enables Malawian farmers to send their children to school for a year, for the cost of 90kg of the rice that they produce on their farms.

In addition, children were encouraged to donate non-perishable foodstuffs to the Warminster Foodbank. Parents and children were incredibly generous and, as well as purchasing a total of 26kg of rice, a huge amount of food was collected for the Foodbank.

During the service in church, each class presented an aspect of Harvest through songs and poems, and these contributions reflected an awareness of the needs of others, as well as God’s care for all in the world.

Following the service, Headteacher, Lyn Taylor, said “Yet again, I’m overwhelmed by the generosity of the children and parents in our school.”

Our Open The Book team from church will continue to take bible study assemblies into school and there are plans afoot to set up an ‘Advent Experience’ in church in the second half of the term.

The church ‘team’ would be delighted to see new members. If you would like to know more or volunteer, please talk to the Rector or me.