Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.

• Our choir sang at the switch on of the Rayleigh Christmas lights - photos added.

  Fri 26 Nov 2010
  Thank you to all of you who came last night to support the Year 6 choir at the switch on of the Rayleigh Christmas lights.
  
  It may have been cold but I'm sure you'll agree that the singing warmed our hearts.
  
  Well done to all the Year 6 involved, and thank you to the staff who helped with the singing. dancing, organising and supporting.
   

  
  Pictures below.
  (Sorry about the quality of the photographs)
  
  If any of you got some good photographs of last nights event that you would like to share, please e-mail them to me on jkeeler@edwardfrancis-jun.e-folio.org.uk and I will add them to this page.

  

• We Wore Something Spotty for Children in Need 2010 - photos added.

  Fri 19 Nov 2010

  We were all seeing spots today at school.
  
  There were spotty shirts, spotty tights, spotty bandannas, spotty socks and several faces covered with coloured spots too!
  
  The pictures below were taken throughout the day.
  
  Even the adults got involved. 
  Look at the last 4 photographs, can you work out which members of staff have had their spotty pictures cropped?

  Your donations amounted to £240 and this will be sent to 
  Children in Need.
  
  Thank you all. 
  
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  In addition to this three Year 6 girls organised a colouring competition for Children in Need. 
  Their picture, along with the winners, has now been added.

• Discounted tickets for the Palace Theatre Chamber Music Recitals

  Mon 08 Nov 2010
  The Palace Theatre in Westcliff are offering pupils of EFJS and their families discounted tickets to see a recital by Natalie Clien, on the cello and Katya Apekisheva, playing the piano on 11th November 2010 at 7.30pm.
  
  The theatre describes the evening as follows:
  
  To start our Palace Theatre Chamber Music Series, we are very pleased to welcome two of today's outstanding young artists, Natalie Clien and Katya Apekisheva. Natalie will start the programme with the sublime unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 2 by Bach. This will be followed by a performance of Shostakovich's haunting Cello Sonata which was commissioned by the famous Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. In the second half, a short piece of Sibelius will be followed by one of Rachmaninov's greatest works. Rachmaninov is, of course, mainly renowned for his concertos and symphonies, but his Cello Sonata with its extraordinarily beautiful slow movement is one of the great chamber works written in the 20th Century.
  
  
  Tickets would normally cost £14.00 but are being offered to our pupils at a cost of £5.00 per ticket. They can be booked in person through the box office, or by calling 01702 351153, quoting Edward Francis Junior School/Miss Jeffryes.