Author: Mr Neale

Our next parent session is due to take place next Thursday, 13^th March 2025. You are invited to visit your child’s class for a ‘Building Thinking Classrooms’ session. During the afternoon, some of our P6 and P7 pupils will be leading a ‘Code along’ in the school hall which we hope you can attend. Class visits will take place at the following times:

1:15pm – 1:45pm P3, P4 and P5

1:50pm – 2:20pm: P6, P6/7 and P7

2:25pm – 2:55pm: P1, P2 and P2/3

Other family members are also welcome to attend on the day of the event.

On Monday, classes in St Joseph’s had the chance to take part in a ‘pedal powered cinema’. This was arranged as our school came third in the SusTrans Scotland ‘Leg it to Lapland’ challenge before Christmas. Everyone had a great time dancing, singing and cycling!

This week, P7 have been visiting some of our local care homes to spread some Christmas cheer. On Monday a group of our P7s visited Whitdale care home and today some of us visited Redmill care home. We enjoyed singing for the residents and are grateful for the very warm welcomes we have received. Merry Christmas from P7!

P7 had lots of fun during our school-wide Outdoor Learning day today. We found resources which we later used to make artworks and structures. We looked after our local community by taking part in a litter picking event and took part in a maths scavenger hunt in the playground.

Thank you to everyone that donated towards the foodbank, thanks to your contribution we can help the people that are in need. We acquired 150 items in total.

  Today in class, P7 resumed their Project Based Learning activities. Each person chose a set of skills that they wanted to develop and then chose a project which would help them achieve these goals. Some wonderful work has been taking place so far!

      

A big thank you again to Mr Binnie, who came in to visit our P1s yesterday. We made some wonderful drawings and then used wood to turn them into real models.

St Joseph’s are taking part in West Lothian Foodbanks ‘Harvest Collection’. Our food drive will take place on 22nd October – 31st October. Each year group is asked, if you are able, to contribute the following items to the West Lothian Harvest Collection (please note, children in composite classes should still bring in items for their own year group):

Nursery to collect Stock Cubes

P1 Tea Bags

P2 Tinned Pasta

P3 Tinned Cold Meat

P4 Tinned Veg

P5 UHT Milk

P6 Washing up Liquid

P7  Household Cleaning Sprays

Thank you, once again, for your cooperation with the harvest food drive.

P7 took part in a visit to Sky Up Academy in Livingston today. We researched our topic (A.I) then the team at Sky helped us share all this information by creating a news report. P7 parents can see our report via the QR code on the sky up card which your child brought home.

On Monday 2nd September, Dr Bike will be visiting St Joseph’s on a mission to help every child have a cycle-worthy bike. If you have a bike at home, which is in need of repair, please bring it to school on Monday and the doctor will try to repair it for free. This event is open to all children in the school, from nursery – P7.