The Society of Vincent De Paul meets on Monday evenings between 7.30 and 8.15pm. They can offer support in many different ways to families.

Please view the flyer below for more information:

vincent de paul flyer

The flyer will also been handed out to all families, so please chck your child’s schoolbag.

Thank you

This year, we will be continuing our use of the Learning Journals platform to allow us to share some of your child’s learning with you.

Click on the link below for some further information on the use of Learning Journals.

Learning Journals Information

Thank you.

 Welcome back! We hope you have all had an enjoyable summer. It has been fantastic to see P4 settle into their new classroom and routines.  

We have had a great start to the term and look forward to a fun-filled term with lots of fabulous learning taking place.  

Here is an update on the upcoming term.  

 Literacy  

For our reading focus this term, we will be developing our comprehension strategies such as visualisation and metalinguistics through our class novel ‘The Iron Man’. The children will be introduced to similes and onomatopoeia; some children can use these in their writing.  

During writing, we will start by continuing to develop our sentence structure and use of description bubbles for various descriptive pieces, we then then continue to work on our characterisation through descriptive skills and language narrative writing.  

Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level. 

P4 will also be given revision lessons on alphabetical order, sentence structure and dictionary skills.  

 Numeracy & Maths  

P4 have already looked at how Maths impacts the world around us and where we use Maths in our day to day lives. We have started learning how to round 2 and 3 digits to the nearest 10 and the nearest 100.  

The class will review Place Value knowledge and use it to build on their sense of number. We will look at 4-digit numbers and read, write order and recite these numbers. Through our place value work, we will be able to identify the value of each digit.  

We will then progress to looking at our addition strategies. The class will participate in a daily number talk, to develop mental maths strategies.  

In Beyond Number, the class will start with shaping, look at the properties of a range of 2D and 3D shapes and create tiling patterns. We will then move on to investigate the use of mathematical language to describe and record directions.   

 Health and Wellbeing  

At the start of the term, P4 discussed and identified their right as a child. As a class, we agreed on a Class Charter to allow our class to be fun, safe, hardworking and respectful.  

This term we will begin our PATHS programme for P4. Lessons will include setting up our class rules, looking at individual emotions, building friendships and community within the school, Self-Control and Anger Management.  We will also start the Do Be Mindful programme which will allow us, using a range of strategies, to look at ways we can take a mindful moment each day. 

 PE 

PE is on a Thursday and Friday. This term we will be covering; 

• Team Games 
• Football  
• Badminton 

PE kit must be brought in and left at the start of each term. Before each holiday, the kit will be sent home for washing to be freshened up and returned on the first day back.  Please make sure your child is not wearing jewellery on these days as they will be unable to participate in the lesson for health and safety reasons. If your child cannot take part for any reason, please contact the school. 

 French  

We will be revising the alphabet, basic French phrases and numbers this term through, songs, activities and games. 

 IDL 

P4 will be learning to carry out a comparison study on the rainforest and the Arctic. We will link this with our literacy through our descriptive writing and will develop mapping skills. 

 Expressive Arts  

In Music, we will be using ‘Charanga’ to appraise and learn a song. P4 will have the opportunity to use our new school glockenspiels to accompany the song, learning about rhythm, pace and beat.  

During Drama lessons, the pupils will take part in drama activities to support teamwork and improve confidence. We will also ‘act out’ parts of our class novel.  

As we move on to our IDL topic, we will use various mediums to create some beautiful artwork to depict the rainforest and Arctic, looking at the idea of hot and cold colours.   

 Religious Education  

This term we will be reflecting on our uniqueness and thinking about our God-given talents. We will reflect on the importance of friendship and link this with various stories from the Bible. The children will take part in class prayers and School Masses, and we will continue to build on our knowledge of common prayers and Mass responses.  

 Homework will be distributed on a Monday to be completed and returned by Friday.  

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to a fabulous term with P4! 

A reminder that  the Parent/carer meet and greet session at St. Joseph’s takes place tomorrow evening (12th September) at 6.30pm.

All of our current Primary 7 parents and carers are invited to a ‘Meet and Greet’ session at St Joseph’s Academy on Tuesday 12th September at 6pm.

A reminder that Primary 6 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on tomorrow.

Please see enclosed link to our September Newsletter

September Newsletter (1).pdf

Please note from Monday 04/09/2023, Parents/Carers/Adults will no longer be allowed in the playground to drop children off for the day.

Thankyou for your cooperation with this.

Mrs A Fergusson

Head Teacher

Breakfast Blether flyer

Why not come along and join us for our first ever Breakfast Blether

A reminder that Primary 6 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Monday 4th September. 

A reminder that Primary 6 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Monday 4th September. 

A reminder that Primary 1 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Thursday 14th September. 

A reminder that Primary 4 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm this Wednesday 13th September. 

A reminder that Primary 3 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm today.

A reminder that Primary 7 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Thursday 7th September. 

A reminder that Primary 2 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Wednesday 6th September. 

A reminder that Primary 5 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Tuesday 5th September. 

A reminder that Primary 6 will be hosting a Meet the Teacher session at 2pm on Monday 4th September. 

Since returning to school following the summer break, we have had a number of school cardigans/jumpers without names on (mainly from our infant department)  handed into lost property. Our Lost Property is situated within our main foyer. If your child has lost any items of school uniform please double check in our Lost Property.  Items will be kept there on a weekly basis and if not claimed on a Friday will be automatically added to our Uniform Exchange.

Can we please ask that Parents/carers make sure that their Parentpay accounts have a balance on them at all times to prevent your account falling into minus.

Thank you

Our class P E days for this year will be as follows:

• P1-Monday and Thursday
• P2-Tuesday and Wednesday
• P3-Tuesday and Thursday
• P4-Thursday and Friday
• P5-Monday and Wednesday
• P6-Wednesday and Friday
• P7 Tuesday and Wednesday

Please note: There will be a temporary change to the P5 and P7 P E days between 5th and 26th September where P5 days will be a Tuesday and Wednesday and P7 days will be a Monday and Wednesday.

We are having another Ragbag collection.  If you have any clothing for the collection please hand in to the school this week Thursday 14th/Friday 15th  September for collection on Monday 18th. 

Thank you

The next meeting of the Parent Council will be on 19th September 2023 @ 7pm in the school.

Pupil Immunisation forms were sent out last week . Please complete these forms and return to school no later than Friday 1st September as they are uplifted from the school w/c Monday 4th September.

Please find attached a copy of our Family Friendly School Improvement Plan for this year.

Family Friendly School Improvement Plan

We have attached a copy of this years school lunch menus for Primary Schools.

Remember if your child(ren) are P1-5 they are entitled to a free school meal each day, and if your child is P6-7 and would like a school lunch daily then the cost of this is only £1.08.

If you would like to apply for FSM entitlement for your child(ren) then this must be done every year.

We have enclosed the link below should you wish to apply for free school meal entitlement.

Apply online · East Ayrshire Council (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)

Primary Menu 2022 to 2023 (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)

Please see enclosed a copy of our August 2023 newsletter.  It is filled with lots of information regarding our new school year.

August Newsletter

We are having lots of fun already in Primary 5. We have been looking at transient art (moveable art) and how it can be made anywhere with anything. Take a look at some of our excellent art  work…

Please follow the link and complete the  online Parentpay Consent Form for your child/children for 23/24:

The closing date for completion of this form is Tuesday 29th August.