St Joseph's PS Whitburn

Dinosaur fun in the woods

Today we searched for different sizes of leaves on the way to the woods, the children then sorted them into size order small medium and large. Some of us stopped for a while and watched the wind blowing the leaves, noticing how the wind gusts strong and soft and how quickly the clouds moved in the sky changing its colour. Mrs Morton offered the children a chance to help her on a dinosaur hunt, 4 had gone missing in the woods. The children searched high and low , looking in trees and the undergrowth. Some children built dinosaur dens to keep them safe, while Miss Gardner helped the children to build traps to catch more. Miss Fraser invited the children to identify numbers and place the correct amount of sticks or leaves on them. What a busy day in the woods!

Reading Events

Dear Parent/Carer,

As part of our work to promote a reading culture a number of events will be taking place this term. We are excited to announce that we have been chosen to launch The Sun newspaper Books for Schools Campaign. The reading bus will be with us on 2nd November from 9.30 am. It will be parked in front of the the main office. Pupils will be able to go on the bus to work with a storyteller.

Photographs will be taken in the school and we will be in the Scottish Sun newspaper on the 3rd of November.

We will be collecting tokens from the Scottish Sun Books for School campaign and will be able to use them to purchase books for our new Library.

Following the great success of The Big Spooky Read last year, we invite parents and family members to come to the school with their children at 8.30 am – 9.00 am wearing Hallowe’en costumes and share a book with their children. This year it will be held in the hall to allow parents to share a story with all of their children at once. Books will be available in the school or you can bring a favourite one from home.

New Library

As part of developing our reading culture we are setting up the spare room as a library. The existing room is too small. Each classroom has an Imagination Station and will have their door decorated inspired by a class novel.

New reading materials, non-fiction books and professional library resources will be available in the Library.

Scholastic Book club will take place in the spare room. It will arrive on the 9th, be here for parents’ night and stay until the 12th of October. Class visits will be timetabled to allow pupils to browse. Order slips will be in the room to allow pupils to record the title and cost of their choice and take the slip home.

Information about the Hallowe’en parties will be shared after the Parent Council Meeting on Wednesday 3rd October.

Regards

Mrs Burns

Parent Consultations

Over the next day or two we will be allocating appointments. Please make sure you have returned your letter with your preferred appointment times.

Mass in St Joseph’s Church

Our monthly Mass will take place at 10.00am in St Joseph’s Church.

The weather forecast looks quite mixed so please ensure that everyone is dressed appropriately.

If you are free why not join us?

Another chance – cake morning

Thank you for all your support for the Macmillan Coffee Afternoon. Due to your generosity with cake donations, we have the opportunity to have a Cake Morning tomorrow. Keep an eye on the Blog to see how much we have raised from both events.

Book Fair

Dear Parents/Guardians,

As is tradition in St Joseph’s Primary, the Book Fair will be visiting the school between 9th and 16th of October. Children will have an opportunity to visit with their class during the day and see what items there are on offer. Your child will be able to reserve a book and payment can be sent to the school.

Mrs Mooney

Primary 2 Clicker Art and Blue Bots

Primary 2 are budding artists! Clicker Art is inspiring – perhaps mums and dads can have a go when they come to meet the teacher on Wednesday!

And what is a Blue Bot anyway? Find out more by asking a primary 2 or come along and have a go.

Then you will be ready for a coffee and some cake!

Cross Country Primary 6

Congratulations to Primary 6 who participated in the Whitburn Schools Cross Country. Primary 6 have been training during the last month and everyone who completed the course received a medal. Two of our pupils excelled Lucy came first out of all the girls and Joel came third out of all the boys! Both now qualify for next years West Lothian Cross Country in P7 – so keep up the training!