Recently at our school mass Fr Sebastian was delighted to present the Pope Francis Faith Award to 22 of our P7 students.
The PFFA begins in Primary 6 and involves regular reflection on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Each pupil then records how these gifts show themselves in action in school, at home, in the local community, and in their church.
Please support our present P6 and next year’s P6 and P7 as they work through the programme.
Now, more than ever, there are severe financial pressures on families in our community. Every year in the UK, £15 billion of welfare payments and financial support go unclaimed.
If you are in need of information or advice, St Joseph’s Primary School has contact with external organisations who may be able to advise you on benefits and/or financial support which is available. In order to sign-post you towards an organisation that can offer support, please complete our ‘Equity Form’ by clicking on the link below, or by scanning the QR code. For example, many people benefit from advice on budgeting, help with energy bills, school uniforms as well as other issues.
https://forms.office.com/e/g8pEXhHy4z
This week at St Joseph’s, we started our Project Based Learning sessions. As part of this approach, learners will chose skills to develop then decide on a project which will help them to further develop these skills. P6 have chosen to develop their creativity, team working and communication skills by taking part in a range of activities such as creating an art portfolio, sewing clothes for toys, plasticine models, keyboard skills and creating their own comic book stories.
Thank you to Mrs Haigh who kindly came in to speak to us about her work in engineering and bridge construction. We learned about ways that bridges are transported and how engineering can change peoples lives.
Our STEAM week continued on Thursday with our P5-P7 classes taking part in lots of fun activities within the school. We did some work on team construction, ‘gutterball’, bottle flip challenges, Building Thinking Classrooms and coding using BBC Microbits.
We were joined by Graeme Binnie from West Lothian College, who kindly delivered his award winning woodwork workshop with our P1 class. Children had the opportunity to draw a picture then, under adult supervision, use woodworking tools and timber to turn their drawing into a woodwork sculpture.
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.
A huge thank you to our visiting parent speaker, who kindly came in to share some of their experiences of STEAM areas. We heard lots about programming, space technology and even got to try out some scientific equipment.
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.
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.
