At St. John’s, we want our whole school community to flourish both inside and beyond the school gates, and ‘Live life in all its fullness’ – John 10:10. Working in partnership with the community plays an extremely important role in children’s development, equipping them with valuable life skills and empathy for others. We seek opportunities to help children understand their role in the school, local and global communities and to become responsible future citizens.

We encourage children to make things better for the school community by taking care of our environment - our Sustainability Champions lead us in activities such as litter-picking, whole-school planting days and switching off lights.

We encourage children to think of those in the local community who are less fortunate. For example, every year we support the Shrublands Food Bank with much-needed donations of food, toiletries and household items.

We encourage children to think about our Global Neighbours - those who may be far away, but still deserve our love and compassion. St. John’s has been awarded a Bronze Award from Christian Aid’s Global Neighbours Scheme for our global citizenship work.

The accreditation scheme celebrates schools that are helping pupils learn about global poverty and the Christian responsibility to tackle it, as well as giving them the tools to play a confident part in creating a fairer world.
As a school, we are fully committed to global citizenship and we are passionate about educating all pupils and the wider community about the importance of active involvement in global citizenship.
We teach the children that God gave us his beautiful world so that we can enjoy it and most importantly look after it. Therefore, it is our duty to instil this in everyone who is part of St. John’s School community.
Throughout the year, we use collective worship to reflect on a global issue and there are always
opportunities for leaders to respond to topical global matters.
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