By Ruth Winters, Headteacher.

The school's summer fair will be held on Saturday June 20th, from 11.30 a.m. - 2.30 p.m.

The theme of this year's event is "Music" and as such there will be a host of demonstrations and performances. Children and parents are invited to bring along their own instruments: traditional or hand - made, (the simpler the better!).

Amongst the planned events are performances from the school choir and orchestra, demonstrations of maypole dancing, cheer leading, salsa dancing, and dancers from the Leivers School of Dancing.

A group of 10 seven and nine-year-olds from Mount Nod Primary School in Greenleaf Close, Mount Nod, paid a visit to St Jude's Rest Home in Unicorn Lane, Eastern Green, to plant flowers and shrubs. They put shrubs in patio pots and planted colourful summer flowers in hanging baskets.

The pupils from the all-boy school in Broad Lane, Coventry, spent a day at a horse sanctuary, the Mr Mouse Home for Unfortunates near Wolverhampton, tackling an assault course in the grounds.

The inspectors who visited the school in Antrim Close, Allesley, Coventry declared to the school to be good with outstanding features. They praised good behaviour among pupils, the friendly atmosphere, efforts to promote healthy lifestyles and the test results achieved by the older pupils.

Among the highlights will be a summer ball on June 13, at 7.30pm.

Ex-pupils, parents and other members of the community are invited.

Ticket prices are £15 per person or £25.00 for 2, and are available from the school office.

A solitary strike from Sam Irwin following good work by man of the match Aron Wint proved decisive for the Broad Lane youngsters.

But Caludon were hampered in their bid to win the coveted trophy for the first time since 1982 when Craig Bottom was dismissed for two bookable offences during the opening half.

By Emma Shore-Marston, Abbie Thomas and Emily Healey.

Children at St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, Coventry, did something funny for money on Friday March 13th by putting on their own events for the whole school to take part in.

They've raised money for Comic Relief and children in Malawi.

By Mrs Ryan and Mrs Evans

We like to keep you up-to-date with what's been going on at St John Vianney Catholic School, and this week the kids have been active with:

Communication Language and Literacy

We have combined R.E. with literacy this week and the children have been listening to and writing about the story of Palm Sunday story.

This was followed by our prayer service with father Jonathan. It was lovely to see so many family members coming to our classroom to share a very special story. The children have learnt the story very well and are using the costumes from the story in our role play area.

Maths

Our focus this week has been comparing numbers. We have been looking at numbers and trying to find a number or numbers which come in between two numbers.

He visited Davenport Lodge Preparatory School, Davenport Road, Earlsdon, Coventry, where pupils aged from five to eight performed a French song and asked him questions in his native language.

RED noses are getting a new lease of life at a Coventry supermarket.

Instead of sitting at the back of a cupboard or being thrown into landfill, this year's red noses are being recycled by staff at Sainsbury's.

The store in Austin Drive, near the Gallagher Retail Park, sold nearly 13,000 noses for this month's Comic Relief, while Sainsbury's in Canley sold more than 14,000.

A 16-strong team of eight to 11-year-olds from the school in Antrim Close, Allesley, Coventry claimed the school's first victory in the annual contest.

The school was among 40 school teams taking part. The Allesley Primary team and the other seven finalists took part in a final at Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre in Fairfax Street, Coventry city centre.

THE Sky Blue city turned a shade of emerald green yesterday as thousands of people celebrated St Patrick's Day.

Members of Coventry's 35,000-strong Irish community took part in a series of events to mark the death of their patron saint more than 1,500 years ago.

The festivities began with a traditional Irish breakfast for homeless people at Norton House, in Bird Street, followed by the blessing of the shamrock at Coventry Irish Society, in Hill Street.

By Mrs Ryan - Class Teacher

We like to keep you up-to-date with what's been going on at St John Vianney Catholic School, and this week the kids have been active with:

Communication Language and Literacy

New sounds this week have been ai, oo and er. Children are also working in phonic groups to revise and consolidate sounds learnt so far.

We all enjoyed our trip to the Jaguar. The theme of the visit was People Who Help Us. All the children had the opportunity to dress up as someone who helps us - we had some lovely firemen and women, nurses, doctors, builders, dentists, surgeons to name a few!

We looked at signs we may see and what they meant. The children took part in a little play all about driving and using your mobile phone! Ask the children to tell you all about it.

EXAM results at Coventry's only all-boy comprehensive school are "staggering", according to Ofsted inspectors.

An Office for Standards in Education report on The Woodlands School and Sports College in Broad Lane, Eastern Green, declares the improvement in the school's results to be staggering.

CLASS ACT...Woodlands pupils have won praise in an Ofsted report.