World Earth Day 🌍

Today we celebrated World Earth Day and P5-7 kickstarted it with a Live session on Tech for Sustainable Transport. The children joined many other schools in discussing various forms of transport, how they affect the environment and the fuels used to power different vehicles. The session included many fun activities and encouraged the children to think of ways that transport could be made more sustainable and also be helpful to

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Game Design!

Last week Primary 5-7 took part in 3 sessions of game designing through coding with My World of Work. The children began by learning how computers work, how video games are made and about the surprising amount of careers available to them in the gaming industry. We talked about the importance of Metaskills – life skills that are important in all types of employment (pictured below). The children most definitely

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Writing to France!

During Term 3, P5-7 were very excited to be communicating with children in France through writing some letters…in French! We received some lovely letters from our French neighbours at the beginning of the year and have now responded to them in both French and English. Here are some of our children’s wonderful work. UNCRC 31 – Children have the right to take part in cultural activities SHANARRI – Achieving, Inclusive

Learning Outdoors

Today the whole school got involved with some Outdoor Learning, and what a lovely day we had for it as well! Jo, from the Rhins and Luce Red Squirrel Network, came to work with the children on some improvements for our outdoor area. Firstly P5-7 learned how to construct a teepee for growing beans and flowers on. The children got stuck in, finding sticks and then cutting off extra branches

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Easter Craft Afternoon

Yesterday parents/carers attended our annual Easter Craft afternoon organised by Donna and our Parent Council. The children got stuck in making some lovely Easter crafts and cards for our Easter Fayre, which were suggested and chosen by our Enterprise Group. Lots of arty (and messy) fun was had by all! Come join us on Thursday for our Easter Fayre where you can buy these fab designs for a small donation!

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We’ll Be Vikings Forever As One!

What an amazing day P5-7 had at Sheuchan on Monday with the musicians and performers from the Scottish Opera. The underlying theme of the performance was to protect our planet and St. Joseph’s P5-7 played the villagers, who helped the other characters in the opera to realise that we need to respect our environment. The children learned the songs and actions in class and came together with Sheuchan P5-7, who

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SCIAF Day!

Our Crazy Hair Day fundraiser was a success with some amazing wacky hairstyles! The children had lots of fun showing off their hair and outfits today. Thank you very much for all your kind donations to SCIAF – it is much appreciated and the money will be given to the church to send off to SCIAF. Well done to the Enterprise Group for organising this. Have a look at our

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Financial Education

Today P5-7 had a few lessons in Financial Education. The topics covered were: The lessons were streamed live through Teams and the children found the information very interesting and useful. There were interactive quizzes and questions throughout so the whole class could get involved. Some very important life lessons learned today and the children were praised by the presenter for their knowledge and clever questioning, well done! UNCRC 17 –

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Microbits

On Wednesday we had Mrs Hall in from DG STEM to show P5-7 how to work Microbits. The children were introduced to a coding website and learned how to make patterns on the screen. They were then shown how to configure the microbits and how to download their pictures and messages onto them and the different things that the microbits can be used for. The children learned how to make

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SCIAF Day preparation

We are very excited for our SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund) fundraising day on March 15th when the Enterprise Group have decided we are coming with crazy hair and/or non-uniform! We have asked that children bring in a small donation if they can for the SCIAF who help change lives worldwide! P5-7 have been designing information leaflets about SCIAF and our school fundraising day, whilst P1-4 enjoyed creating detailed

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