Despite the weather, St Joseph’s STEAM week continued today with our P1-P4 classes taking part in school based EcosySTEM activities. We constructed some shelters which animals could live in, we created ‘gutter runs’, we had coding activities in the library and some classes even created spaghetti based construction models.
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STEAM Week – Parent Speakers
St Joseph’s STEAM Week
This week in St Joseph’s we are celebrating STEAM week. Today we were joined by Tomasz, Ross and Gordon from West Lothian College. We learned about pneumatics and had the opportunity to create our own circuits using air powered compressors to use a piston. Our P3/4 and P4 classes learned about air powered cars and created their own moving models.
EcosySTEMS
Please note there has been a slight change to our EcosySTEMs event, which is due to take place on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd May. P2/3 will now attend the park on Wednesday 22nd and P6/7 will go on Thursday 23rd. Please ensure your child has returned their permission slip to the school and is wearing weather appropriate clothing, including footwear.
BE Uniforms discount offer
Reading Schools Award – Parent & Carers attitude to reading survey
Eco-sySTEMS
Next week we are looking forward to our Eco-sySTEMS event. These are some of the exciting activities we have planned for the 22nd/23rd May. If you haven’t already done so please return your child’s EE2 form. In addition, please look ahead at the weather forecast to ensure your child is suitably dressed and has enough water for a full day of outdoor learning.
Easy Fundraising – Help raise funds for the school
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ATSSA Award Bronze Level Accreditation
We are delighted to share that we have been awarded our Bronze Level accreditation for the Attachment and Trauma Sensitive Schools Award (ATSSA) and now recognised as an “Attachment and Trauma Aware” school. This is an external sign of recognition of our commitment to develop a culture of compassion and nurture in St Joseph’s.
You can read our report, written by Jenny Nock (award creator) below. We were very happy to have been seen as having 8 ‘particular strengths’. We will continue our journey and hopefully achieve our Silver Award in September.