Christmas newsletter
Author: Mr Toner
Christmas Diary Dates
December Diary Dates
St Joseph’s Primary
Tuesday 4th December’18 SSPCA visit for a whole school Assembly
Friday 7th December ’18 Christmas Fayre 11.00am -12-15pm
Tuesday 11th December’18 Christmas Lunch (Pupils)
On the day of Christmas lunch children can wear a Christmas jumper on top of school uniform.
Tuesday 11th December’18 School Choir to visit Redmill care home to entertain the residents.
Tuesday 11th December ’18 Last week for all before and after school clubs.
Wednesday 12th December ’18 School Pantomime, Cumbernauld Theatre.
Bus leaving the school at 12.00pm for a 1.00pm start and return at approximately 3.45pm
Friday 14th December ’18 School Concert 10.00am. Doors will open at 9.45am
Monday 17th December ’18 Primary 1 / 2 Christmas Parties.
Children who are going home to change for their parties can be collected at the main entrance at 12.00pm.
Tuesday 18h December ’18 Primary 3 / 4 Christmas Parties
Children who are going home to change for their parties can be collected at the main entrance at 12.00pm.
Wednesday 19th December ’18 Nursery Christmas Parties
Thursday 20th December ’18 Primary 5 / 6 Christmas Parties 9.00am-10.30am
Primary 7 Christmas party 1.15pm-2.30pm
Children who are going home to change for their parties can be collected at the main entrance at 12.00pm.
Friday 21st December ‘18 Mass and carols in St Joseph’s church at 10.00am
Friday 21st December ’18 School Closes at 12.20pm for Christmas Holidays Monday 7th January ’19 School Re-opens for school staff and children.
Download here: December diary dates (1)
Nursery Newsletter
Find attached our nursery newsletter with lots of information and important dates in the lead up to Christmas!
Primary 6 Sumdog
Here are P6 engrossed in their Sumdog challenge.
13th place, 29 of the class participating as part of 1878 students who answered 298837 questions correctly. Well done to them.
Keep using Sumdog at home and in school whenever you get the opportunity!
Good Neighbours
We have had several calls from local residents asking us to ask our parents to be more thoughtful and considerate to our neighbours.
Please do not block access to driveways or garages, try to keep noise down and perhaps walk a little further to avoid congestion in the streets closer to the school. Take advantage of the renewed footpaths/cycle paths which provide a safe route to the school when dropping off and collecting your children.
The Scottish Sun Book Bus
The Scottish Sun Book Bus was at our school on Friday to promote reading. Photos were in Saturdays Scottish Sun. Did you pick up your copy ?
The Scottish Sun Book Bus was at our school today to promote reading. Photos will be in tomorrow’s Scottish Sun. Make sure you pick up your copy and keep collecting the book vouchers.
— Frances Anne Burns (@FrancesAnneBur3) November 2, 2018
Big Spooky Read
Wow what a turn out!! Great to see so many family members turn up to read with their children. So happy to have such support for building our reading culture. Thank you.
— Frances Anne Burns (@FrancesAnneBur3) November 2, 2018
Primary 2 and Clicker
We have been exploring how we can use Clicker for our Literacy tasks. Clicker Art lets us draw pictures. Clicker word processor “talks” what we type and prediction helps us to write sentences!
Poggle
Poggle is the story of Vince, who wants to explore the forest but is too scared, until one day he meets Poggle, a friendly creature. Together they go on an adventure through the forest where they discover the magical musical tree. A warm hearted, sensory dance theatre piece with live music, clapping rhythms and comedy throughout in an imaginatively changing world that the children have the chance to explore.
Fabulous first day in @StJosephspswhit , what an audience! @Barrowlballet @NTSonline @ImaginateUK @LoveWestLothian pic.twitter.com/KagLKIbAJL
— TheatreinSchScot (@tiss_scotland) November 1, 2018
P2 Working on Shape
In maths we have been exploring shape – we constructed lots of shapes and started to spot which shapes had been used to make other shapes.
