It is with great sadness that we bring you news of the passing of Miss Mary Prior, former Head Teacher of St. Joseph’s Primary. Miss Prior spent most of her teaching career here in St. Joseph’s and was fully devoted to the education of our children. Please remember her and her family in your prayers.
Frances Burns
Welcome to the Summer Term, I hope you had a lovely Easter. Already the diary is beginning to fill up with school events , excursions and activities. We would like parents to become more involved in planning exciting learning opportunities. On Wednesday the first of May from 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm the teaching staff will be hosting a drop- in session to share the topics being covered by their class this term.
We value your involvement and would love you to contribute any new ideas and suggestions. Please come along and join in this new joint venture.
Regards
Mrs Burns
Good morning,
unfortunately, the school is experiencing a problem with the telephone line. Staff in the office are unable to hear the person talking on the telephone. This problem has been reported and we hope to have it rectified as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience
Mrs Burns
Good morning,
St Joseph’s Christmas Fayre will take place in the school hall on Friday 7th December from 11 am. The school is a hive of activity as pupils make Christmas Crafts to sell. More details of the stalls and activities will follow. Thank you to all of the generous donations we have received so far. Home baking, bottles, toiletries and objects for the child’s tombola would be gratefully received.
Thank you for you continued support
Mrs Burns
Dear Parent/Carer
The Parent Council have linked with Smile Amazon charity. Everyone who wants to support the PC needs to shop through the smile amazon web address. Same choice and prices just 0.5% of eligible purchases donated straight to us quarterly.https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/SC039454
Thank you for your support
Parent Council
Dear Parent/Carer
I am aware that not every parent is able to access information via the Parent Council Facebook page and would like to share information regarding the cost of the panto and how it is calculated. The total cost of the tickets and the cost of the bus are added together then any contribution from the parent council is deducted and the balance divided by the number of children. There is no VAT added to the cost of the ticket and no VAT charged by the bus company.
I hope this information is helpful. Should you require any further information please contact me.
Regards
Mrs Burns
Just when you thought our Hallowe’en celebrations were all over! It is our Big Spooky Read tomorrow. It will take place in the main hall from 8.30 am until 9.30 am. All welcome to come along in Hallowe’en costumes and read a story with your children. Staff will be there to help out.
The Scottish Sun Newspaper Reading Bus is coming to our school tomorrow morning. Some of our pupils will be able to go on board and have a story read to them by a real author! The photographs will be in the Saturday edition of the Scottish Sun.
Good morning,
A quick reminder of the fantastic NSPCC Net-Aware website https://www.net-aware.org.uk/which gives detailed advice and reviews of the different social media apps which young people use. It covers over 50 different apps including popular apps like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to lesser known apps such as MovieStarPlanet, Kik, Roblox and Musical.ly. It reviews the levels of risk associated with each app and also includes the views of different young people about each app and how safe they feel using it. This is an excellent website for parents to use where issues are arising with a particular app.
Mrs Burns
Dear Parent/Carer,
As part of our work to promote a reading culture a number of events will be taking place this term. We are excited to announce that we have been chosen to launch The Sun newspaper Books for Schools Campaign. The reading bus will be with us on 2nd November from 9.30 am. It will be parked in front of the the main office. Pupils will be able to go on the bus to work with a storyteller.
Photographs will be taken in the school and we will be in the Scottish Sun newspaper on the 3rd of November.
We will be collecting tokens from the Scottish Sun Books for School campaign and will be able to use them to purchase books for our new Library.
Following the great success of The Big Spooky Read last year, we invite parents and family members to come to the school with their children at 8.30 am – 9.00 am wearing Hallowe’en costumes and share a book with their children. This year it will be held in the hall to allow parents to share a story with all of their children at once. Books will be available in the school or you can bring a favourite one from home.
New Library
As part of developing our reading culture we are setting up the spare room as a library. The existing room is too small. Each classroom has an Imagination Station and will have their door decorated inspired by a class novel.
New reading materials, non-fiction books and professional library resources will be available in the Library.
Scholastic Book club will take place in the spare room. It will arrive on the 9th, be here for parents’ night and stay until the 12th of October. Class visits will be timetabled to allow pupils to browse. Order slips will be in the room to allow pupils to record the title and cost of their choice and take the slip home.
Information about the Hallowe’en parties will be shared after the Parent Council Meeting on Wednesday 3rd October.
Regards
Mrs Burns
