The school is situated in the heart of Angel, Islington and is privileged to serve our local community and provide education for our children from 3 to 11 years old. The Catholic life of the school and Religious Education underpin everything we do. We nurture a sense of belonging and social responsibility not only to the school and parish but also to the wider community.
Our Mission Statement is ‘To love, to learn with God in our hearts’ inspires all members of our school community to always strive to do their best to develop our skills and talents for the glory of God and for the service of all our brothers and sisters.
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At St John Evangelist Catholic School we work collaboratively with our parents, parish and the wider community in order to promote, develop and sustain our community through the Catholic life of the School. We are a school of prayer. We encourage religious devotion in simple and regular practices during the school day. We celebrate the liturgy of the Church following the seasons and feast days of the Church’s year. We teach children to understand the meaning of justice and support them to act justly and to promote the common good.
We enable our community to reach out to suffering and marginalised individuals and communities locally and globally through our charitable events and fundraising. We are open and welcoming to people of other faiths and no faith. In collaboration with our Parish clergy we promote the Christian life and Catholic identity of the school.
Prayer is an integral part of our school. Children pray throughout the day at St John’s. Classes say a morning prayer, lunchtime prayer and end of the day prayer together. They pray during collective worship, in RE lessons and spontaneously using the prayer area in their classrooms. We inspire children to pray in a range of different means to allow all to be able to access both academically and spiritually.
Children are expected to know certain prayers by the end of each key stage. In each class, children regularly practice these prayers and what they mean to ensure they have an understanding of what the prayers represent.
Worship in a Catholic school should be joyful and purposeful in order for it to become a truly spiritual experience. Collective Acts of Worship take place every day either in class, as a key stage group or as a whole school. Faith leaders lead worship and model this to classes within the school. As children go through the school, they are expected to take the lead in delivering the collective act of worship session with their peers.
When pupils start school in September, it will be Ordinary Time, the colour for which is green. This means the prayer tables around the school will be covered in green cloth and at Mass we will see our Parish Priests, Fr Jakub and Fr Rajiv, wearing green.
This will last until the beginning of Advent when the colour changes to purple for the preparation of Jesus’ birth at Christmas time.
Whilst the date of Christmas is fixed every year, the day of the week on which it is celebrated will vary. For this reason, the date of the beginning of Advent will vary too. It will be celebrated on a Sunday four weeks before Christmas (not the 1st December as often thought). This year Advent will start on Sunday 3rd December.
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I was born in 1940, and I attended St. John's until 1951, when I started my secondary education at St. Aloysius College, Highhgate, which was a grammar school. 30 out of the 32 kids In my class at St. John's succeeded in the 11+ examination, when the national average pass rate per class was 14+%. We were not great students, but we had great teachers!
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