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Mass in School

Mass will be celebrated in school on Thursday the 28th of November at 10.00am.

We will celebrate the Mass for the feast of St Andrew although his feast falls on Saturday 30th.

Everyone is invited to wear some tartan.

Christmas Lego builds continue…

The fun continues at Lego Club with our Christmas builds. Today saw the children working collaboratively to build Santa, who was looking particularly trim, and one of his elves!

We also took some time today to discuss what we liked about Lego Club and reflect on which roles we enjoyed most.

The Christmas builds at Lego Club are up and running! Our members had to work particularly well together last week to co-construct a reindeer and some holly WITHOUT instructions! They used their observation skills and knowledge of the bricks when looking at the model photograph and jointly built different sections of the reindeer. They guided each other, gave feedback and even evaluated the build before making improvements. It was a great team effort!

This week in P7/6

This week we:

looked at ways to multiply 2 digit numbers mentally
acted out the scene we had created from our class novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
wrote the final draft of our acrostic poem
delivered presentations to the class on the building of our Anderson shelters, and
started to make items to sell at our Christmas Fayre.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Lauder

This week in P2…

We have been learning:

to read and write words using the sound ‘au’
to sole word problems involving capacity and weight
about transport in different parts of the world

What we have been doing in the nursery this week..

Some of the boys and girls have been exploring ice this week, They brought ice in from the outdoor learning area and watched it melt, they then measured how much water the ice had turned into using a jug they were then able to identify that the ice had turned into half a jug of water. The boys and girls then decided they would re-freeze the ice by putting it in the freezer because “The freezer is colder than the fridge”. Some other boys and girls have been discussing who is taller. We measured the boys and girls to discover who was the tallest. We have also been on walks this week and discovered seasonal changes.
What a great week at St Joseph’s!

Lego Club Success

Our Lego Club members felt a great sense of achievement last week as they completed another model. This model was built over a couple of weeks where the children took turns in each of the roles and built up enough Lego points to earn some free play! We are looking forward to start building some Christmas themed models next.

This week in P2…

We have been learning:

to read and identify written number names
to use the sounds ‘ue’, ‘aw’ and ‘oi’ in our reading and writing
about how to safely cross the road

What the nursery have been doing this week..

The nursery boys and girls voted for their book of the week! They voted for The Disgusting Sandwich (YUCK) the children have explored and recreated the sandwich from the story then they created their own sandwiches using ingredients they used in their sandwich recipes! The children loved exploring the textures smells and tastes of the sandwiches and even found lots of shapes within the ingredients! We even went on a walk to the park to look for the disgusting sandwich – But no sandwich was found! “The mouse must have already got it!”
Outdoors the children were investigating ice and realised that ice was see-through, melted to water and when it hit the floor it broke into lots of different pieces which then represented shapes! Some boys and girls were mark making in the frost too!
What a great week St Joseph’s Nursery!