Author: Mr Neale

The pop-up shop will visit St Joseph’s tomorrow, Wednesday 26th June, with a wide range of new and nearly new clothing available at hugely reduced prices. The pop up shop is open from 12pm – 4pm to all parents and families. Payment can be made via cash or card. You do not need to book to enter.

St Joseph’s Fashion Show will also take place tomorrow in the school hall, however this is a ticketed event.

This morning, P6 spent some time playing with our nursery buddies. We had lots of fun getting to know our buddies a little better.

As part of our class topic on Democracy, P6 held a class debate today. We spoke about what activities we should do during PE. Later this week we will take a vote to decide which side wins the debate.

Today we welcomed the nursery children who will begin P1 in August. The children had the chance to meet their new ‘buddies’ and spent some time playing together in the playground.

Thank you to everyone who made it along to the ‘Play Based Learning’ parent event on Monday. The children really enjoyed sharing some of their projects and playing alongside their family members.

St Joseph’s Primary School will be holding a play based learning event on Monday 17^th June 2024. Visit times will be staggered to allow those who have children in multiple classes to spend more time in each class during this event. Start times for each class will be:

Nursery, P1 & P2/1: 1:15 – 1:45

P2/3, P3/4 & P4: 1:45 – 2:15

P5P, P5G, P6, P6/7 and P7: 2:15 – 2:45

Please note that grandparents or other family members are also welcome to attend the event.

Now, more than ever, there are severe financial pressures on families in our community. Every year in the UK, £15 billion of welfare payments and financial support go unclaimed.

If you are in need of information or advice, St Joseph’s Primary School has contact with external organisations who may be able to advise you on benefits and/or financial support which is available. In order to sign-post you towards an organisation that can offer support, please complete our ‘Equity Form’ by clicking on the link below, or by scanning the QR code. For example, many people benefit from advice on budgeting, help with energy bills, school uniforms as well as other issues.

https://forms.office.com/e/g8pEXhHy4z

 

 

This week at St Joseph’s, we started our Project Based Learning sessions. As part of this approach, learners will chose skills to develop then decide on a project which will help them to further develop these skills. P6 have chosen to develop their creativity, team working and communication skills by taking part in a range of activities such as creating an art portfolio, sewing clothes for toys, plasticine models, keyboard skills and creating their own comic book stories.

Thank you to Mrs Haigh who kindly came in to speak to us about her work in engineering and bridge construction. We learned about ways that bridges are transported and how engineering can change peoples lives.

Our STEAM week continued on Thursday with our P5-P7 classes taking part in lots of fun activities within the school. We did some work on team construction, ‘gutterball’, bottle flip challenges, Building Thinking Classrooms and coding using BBC Microbits.