St Joseph's PS Whitburn

Big Spooky Read

Just when you thought our Hallowe’en celebrations were all over! It is our Big Spooky Read tomorrow. It will take place in the main hall from 8.30 am until 9.30 am. All welcome to come along in Hallowe’en costumes and read a story with your children. Staff will be there to help out.

The Scottish Sun Newspaper Reading Bus is coming to our school tomorrow morning. Some of our pupils will be able to go on board and have a story read to them by a real author! The photographs will be in the Saturday edition of the Scottish Sun.

Hallowe’en fun in nursery

What a spooky day we had. Dookin for apples, pin the skull on the skeleton, creepy feely tin ,rats in the sand and so much more. The children all looked great in their costumes ! Thanks to all parents and careers who managed to pop back early and join in our spooky fun.

App Prize Draw

The School App prize draw took place during our assembly today. Congratulations to all the winners!

Thank you to everyone who has downloaded the App – almost 200 downloads in our first week! Please encourage others to download it too. We would like every family to have it downloaded, but don’t stop there – mums and dads, grandparents, older brothers and sisters, childminders, after-school care.

Look out for more house point giveaways after the holiday.

School App

If you haven’t downloaded the new School App here is all the information you need!

Do it now! More points available tomorrow. Check out the message in the App!!

Remember to bring your devices to Parents Evening!!

Macmillan Fund Raiser

Congratulations on raising £455.64 between our Coffee afternoon and bake sale. Thank you to everyone who contributed and attended.

Internet Safety Advice

Good morning,

A quick reminder of the fantastic NSPCC Net-Aware website https://www.net-aware.org.uk/which gives detailed advice and reviews of the different social media apps which young people use. It covers over 50 different apps including popular apps like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to lesser known apps such as MovieStarPlanet, Kik, Roblox and Musical.ly. It reviews the levels of risk associated with each app and also includes the views of different young people about each app and how safe they feel using it. This is an excellent website for parents to use where issues are arising with a particular app.

Mrs Burns

Parent Consultation Appointments

Appointments were sent out today, check school bags, homework diaries, pockets etc!! Make sure you download the new school app. Show your device with the app to receive a raffle ticket when you arrive for your appointment. Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Afternoon family sponsor welly walk.

Thank you to all the adults and children who supported us this afternoon. Fortunately the weather was a little kinder, although we still found lots of puddles to splash in. Please return sponsor forms as soon as you can , thanks.

Morning sponsor welly walk

Thank you to all the family members and children who braved the rain and joined us on our welly walk this morning.

Nursery Family Sponsor Welly Walk

Just a reminder for tomorrows welly walk, drop children off at normal times. We plan to leave at 9.30am for the morning session and 12.30pm for the afternoon session. Looks like there is light rain forecast so dress appropriately – hopefully we can find some puddles for a little splash!