Last session P5 (now current P6), under the excellent guidance and tuition of class teacher Catherine McLean, entered the Scottish Engineer’s Leaders Award organised by STEM in conjunction with Strathclyde University’s Faculty of Engineering. The project was to create an engineering design for the future and with such a wide remit, the creativity of the children exploded onto the page! The children had to submit a drawing of their design along with a written piece to describe it.
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Catholic Education Week
Catholic Education Week took place from 23 Feb until 01 March 2014 all over Scotland and the children of St. Joseph’s, Helensburgh eagerly took part.
The week started off on Education Sunday (23 February) with the parishioners receiving a report from the school giving a detailed account on developments in Catholic Education from the previous year; this was presented alongside detail of all the plans to develop Catholic Education in the forthcoming week at school. Continue reading Catholic Education Week
St Joseph’s sing for the Community!
The first public performance of St. Joseph’s Primary School’s new singing ensemble ‘St Joseph’s Dynamic Diamonds’ took place on Friday 13 December at Clyde View care home in Cardross. The recently formed ensemble practises each Tuesday under the excellent guidance and leadership of Mrs Helen Innes, one of our mums. Helen is a qualified Music Teacher and gives of her own time each Tuesday to practise with the children……..and on Friday it all paid off!
St Joseph’s Charlie Part of The ‘Visit Scotland’ Campaign
This year we have a number of children achieving accolades outside of school and Charlie in P5 is just one such example. After having taken the lead role in the school’s Peter Pan production in June, Charlie’s mum helped source an agent for him and his career has gone from strength to strength. This year you will see Charlie be a part of the ‘Visit Scotland’ campaign and we are delighted for him. Recently he travelled to Gleneagles to film the ad which will soon be on our screens.
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School Grounds Day at St Joseph’s
Friday 22 November 2013 was a fantastic day at St. Joseph’s in Helensburgh as parents, pupils and staff joined forces to clean up and plant new life in the school grounds. Everyone from Pre-5 children to adults was involved in various activities throughout the morning. The Pre-5 and infant children were involved in sweeping leaves, picking up litter, weeding and planting flowers and trees whilst the eldest of these children (P3) cleaned up the outdoor classroom and got involved in raking and creating hanging baskets.
Year of Faith Mass
Friday 1 November 2013 will go down in the history of St Joseph’s Primary School as a monumental day as The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, Archbishop of Glasgow visited the school to say a special Mass. Archbishop Tartaglia was there not only to celebrate All Saints Day but also as a culmination of the school’s Year of Faith activities.
St Joseph’s VIB meets VIPs!!!!
St Joseph’s Very Important Bear meets some Very Important People!
In P6 & P7 this year at St Joseph’s the children’s very important bear, Buddy, has been visiting some wonderful places and the resulting creative and expressive language from the children’s accounts of these were a dream to hear. However, the other week Buddy was already ‘booked’ for an adventure when another P7 child asked to take him to the STV Appeal.
Wonka’s Surprise
St. Joseph’s Golden Tickets!
Such is the ethos at St. Joseph’s that when one class starts a project…..we all get involved!! Happily that includes the entire school family and this week it was the turn of the catering staff to help develop the new P5 Interdisciplinary study ‘Wonka’s Surprise’. Canteen supervisor Sue and her staff took an enterprising view of the month’s ‘theme day’ to create a Willy Wonka style lunch.
St Joseph’s Pre-5 Unit Open Day
A wonderful day was had by all as St. Joseph’s Pre-5 Unit opened their doors to all the parents of the school as well as the Pre-5 Unit last week. The recent new development to the school comprises a lovely, brand new, state-of-the Art Pre-5 Unit and all the local parents are delighted with this new service being provided on the school premises. The modern, ‘natural look’ theme is obvious throughout with beautiful new resources for the very lucky children who attend here.
Denominational Schools Working In Partnership
This year was the Year of Faith in the Catholic church where many opportunities were created to celebrate our faith worldwide. The four denominational schools in Argyll and Bute of St. Andrew’s Rothesay, St Columba’s, Oban, St. Mun’s Dunoon and St. Joseph’s Helensburgh collaborated on a project to create the Argyll and Bute children’s year of faith prayer as follows:
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Global Citizenship and IDL at St. Joseph’s, Helensburgh
Assembly at St. Joseph’s Primary School in Helensburgh this morning was a well attended affair. The children of P2a demonstrated beautifully their learning from their Interdisciplinary Learning Study ‘Handa’s Surprise’ to the whole school (including Pre-5) and to a vast array of proud parents. A plethora of educational experience was in evidence from the creativity of Curriculum for Excellence to the evidenced planned partnership with the local links to the Nora Docherty school in Malawi.
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Community Planned Partnership at St Joseph’s!
Community planned partnership is alive and well at St Joseph’s in Helensburgh. Throughout the academic session all classes will be involved in planning their IDL studies in conjunction with a community partner. This term both P1 and P3 involved the partnership of the local Dog Groomer as they each approached the study of ‘Pets’ at a basic and more advance level respectively.
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St. Joseph’s Pupil Scoops International Prize!
Charlotte was overcome with emotion when John Evitt of Mission Matters Scotland came to St. Joseph’s Primary School for what she thought was an assembly on the international charity which the school supports. However, earlier this year Charlotte and her classmates had entered an art competition to mark the 170th birthday of the Catholic Church’s global mission charity and John’s real reason for visiting school that day was to present Charlotte with the Scottish prize.
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St Josephs Summer Disco
What a great night was had by all at St. Joseph’s Primary School on Friday when the whole school came together to help P7 celebrate their primary school years. The Leavers’ Disco was a marvellous success as the P7 children were waited upon by their teachers and the parent council at the special VIP table. However, as is the way at St. Joseph’s, the whole school family was involved with mums and dads together with children from all stages of the school being in attendance to give P7 a wonderful, St Joseph’s send off. Continue reading St Josephs Summer Disco
St. Joseph’s Concert
Another super performance by the children of St. Joseph’s took place on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday 12 and 13 June respectively. P4 and P5 performed Peter Pan to a sell out audience on both nights with P6 & P7 presenting some gritty performances as the cast embraced the musical ‘Oliver’.
The audience were in awe of all the children as the show opened with a performance from the full scale school orchestra. The ensemble played in perfect tune culminating in a fantastic performance of the theme from James Bond. Continue reading St. Joseph’s Concert
Health Week at St Joseph’s
Health week got off to a wonderful start at St Joseph’s this week with P3 producing a very interesting and exciting assembly on their recent topic “Health and Fitness”. It was all very appropriate as Health Week is featuring greatly in everyone’s thoughts in the school. Miss Trainer, acting PT, has done a sterling job of co-ordinating all the activities for the whole school…and hasn’t left out mums and dads either! As well as a number of exciting activities for the children, Miss Trainer has embraced the talents of a number of qualified parents to put on a few activities with a difference for parents and staff. Continue reading Health Week at St Joseph’s
St. Joseph’s Pupils Just Keep on Winning!
Staff and pupils of St. Joseph’s Primary school in Helensburgh were delighted to welcome John Evitt of Missio to school this week, not least because he brought with him a wonderful surprise for P6 pupil Charlotte O’Hara. Way back in November of last year, John visited the school to announce the lunch of an International Competition ‘Missionary Children World Competition’ to mark 170 years of Missio in this, the Year of Faith. Missio launched this drawing competition which was open to all primary school pupils in Scotland.
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St Joseph’s Scoops the Double!
Two pupils from St Joseph’s Primary School in Helensburgh won both available prizes from the primary section of the Helensburgh Garelochside’s Rotary Club ‘Helensburgh Young Photographer 2013’ competition recently. All children who took part in the competition were invited to the Rosslea Hotel on the evening of Monday 10 June where the winners were announced. A number of the St Joseph’s children and their parents attended and were delighted to see Charlotte O’Hara of P6 take the runner-up prize with Hannah Thomson of P7 lifting the winning plaque. Both girls and their parents were delighted!
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St. Joseph’s Help Clean up the Local Community!
The children of St. Joseph’s Eco Committee were out in force last week assisting the community by helping to make the streets a little more clean. They donned the relevant protective clothing and litter pickers and went off in search of their target….LITTER! The area of Kirkmichael benefited greatly with the children returning with happy smiles and reporting they’d cleaned up the area! En route the children and staff were met with some very happy residents who came out of their houses to say thanks!….That made the children smile even more!
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Challenge Cup Football
Well done to the football teams from St. Joseph’s, Hermitage, Cardross and Rhu for their efforts in the Challenge Cup competition. St. Joseph’s ran out worthy winners in the end and a great day was enjoyed by everyone involved. Thanks to the teachers and helpers for organising the teams and thanks to all the parents who turned up to cheer on the children. We are hoping to run the competition again next year and welcome any more schools from the area who wish to enter.
