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
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£250 benefit starts Monday and will be fourth new social security benefit.
A brand new benefit for low income families opens for applications on Monday 29 April.
The £250 Early Learning Payment is for children aged between two to three and a half and can be used for anything from children’s clothes and shoes to toys, books or days out.
This payment is part of the Scottish Government’s new Best Start Grant package. This financial support includes the Pregnancy and Baby Payment, which has been open for applications since December and the Best Start Grant School Age payment which will open in June.
Full details can be found here:
https://news.gov.scot/news/new-best-start-grant-payment-to-open
The following is the link to the Social Security Scotland Web page where applicants can apply online for both Pregnancy and Baby Payment and Early Years Payment
https://www.mygov.scot/best-start-grant/
The final Payment for School Age children is still scheduled to go live on 3/6/19
Today Primary 5 took on the Titanic Building Challenge.
Building the Titanic Challenge
We learned about the size and structure of the Titanic and to work together as a team.
Success Criteria
To be successful we had to
We had a very successful afternoon.
We have been learning:
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
P4 completed their charity run this morning, well done boys and girls! Thank you for your kind donations to our Lenten charity, our Tanzanian friends will be delighted with the support they have received.
This week Primary 7D have been learning about Spain and Spanish culture.
We reflected on the work of Pablo Picasso and we were inspired to create our own Picasso inspired portraits using bright colours and abstract shapes.
We also spent time researching Spain and we created information PowerPoints which we presented to the class.
Finally, we enjoyed tasting Spanish food like chorizo, Spanish tortillas, olives, Manchego cheese and Serrano ham, as well as fruit grown in Spain. Using sensory descriptors, we tried to describe the appearance, smell, taste and texture of each food that we tried.
Well done to Blazej who successfully picked our hidden square.
Thanks to everyone who took part in our Egg Decorating and Easter Pixelated Art competitions. Mr Martin had a very difficult job but eventually decided on our winners.
Our Egg Decorating winner was Bradon in P3.
Our runners up were Priya (P3) and Farrah (P5).
Our Pixelated Art winner was Amelia (P5)
Congratulations and a huge “Thank you” to everyone who took part.
Here are some of the children with their certificates and a few of the fabulous eggs.
If we missed anyone, don’t worry you’ll get your certificate tomorrow.
All eggs are being proudly displayed outside the school office and will be returned to their owners on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thanks for participating.
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