Glow Blogs – Dumfries and Galloway

Our Enterprise Group, with Mrs Mann and help from Mrs Westbrook, organised an amazing Macmillan Coffee Afternoon here at St Joseph’s – and what a fantastic success it was! 🌟 The children worked so hard behind the scenes in the run-up to the event, preparing games, stalls and decorations. Families and friends donated an incredible selection of baking – cakes, traybakes, biscuits – filling the hall with delicious smells and tempting treats. On the day, the Enterprise Group ran a variety of fun stalls, including “Guess the Name of the Bear” (won by Hope 🎉) and the Matchbox Game, where<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dg/stjosephsprimary/?p=5601">Read More</a>

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Monday – Launching into Maths Week with Richard!🎯 On Monday, we welcomed Richard Patchett back into school to do some outdoor maths with us! Richard had kindly collected some branches for us and we made sling-shots using elastic! Using the conkers we collected on Friday afternoon from the Wetlands and some kind conker donations, we (safely) launched conkers using our slingshots (Risk assessment assured😏). The aim was to launch the conkers to hit the target and use their adding strategies to tally up their scores! Such a fun, hands on opportunity for children to use their maths skills! Tuesday – Big

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The maths might have been wild, the weather wasn’t and the pupils in P1-4 worked really hard to complete some outdoor maths challenges as part of Maths Week Scotland.  In groups the pupils used a Carroll Diagram to sort natural and some unnatural objects that they found in the playground.  The pupils also sorted through a huge pile of bamboo to try and find the pieces the measured exactly 1m.  Finally, the class played a maths version of noughts and crosses where a winning line of 3 had to add up to 15.

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This morning P4-7 , armed with snacks and carboard headed over to Kirkcolm for a morning of flight with Visible Fictions’ “The Impossible” Project!✈️  Over the course of the term the boys and girls have been learning about the 4 forces of flight, famous aeronauts from the past and what exactly is in a flight deck of a plane!? They put this knowledge to work by creating their very own flight decks to take part in the audio drama, this gave them a space to experience the story from which helped to immerse them in the experience.   When we

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Wowowow – what a week we have had! This past week has been the annual Maths Week Scotland, so we have been celebrating all this MATHS related! The theme this year has been WILD MATHS so we have certainly tried to live up to it! Monday Kicking things off strong on Monday, the entire school went out this morning with Richard Pratchett (our outdoor learning expert!) to make some catapults! After pupils worked diligently all weekend to collect some conkers (shout out to Ruby & Sally for the giant bag they brought it – our conker collecting queens!) we made …

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Today, the Leswalt upper class popped over with Miss Douglas to join us for a morning of audio drama!? 🎧 Pupils in the upper classes across both schools had been signed up to take part in ‘The Impossible’ – an audio drama which focuses on resilience and flight, creating a vivid story using the pupils own imagination! 👩🏻‍✈️👨🏻‍✈️ Over the course of the term the boys and girls have been learning about the 4 forces of flight, famous aeronauts from the past and what exactly is in a flight deck of a plane!? They put this knowledge to work by …

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