St Joseph's PS Whitburn

Walk to School Week

Children are encouraged to “walk for wellbeing” during this year’s Walk to School Week from May 16th to 20th.

The week is organised by the charity Living Streets and this year will see the #PowerUp challenge, which focuses on how being active helps improve health, happiness, and local environment. Families are encouraged to walk, wheel, cycle, scoot or “Park and Stride” for the whole week.

Living Streets is a UK charity for “everyday walking” and Walk to School Week is part of its National Walking Month campaign that is running for the whole of May.

Last year, a record 350,000 pupils across the UK took part in Walk to School Week. Stephen Edwards from Living Streets said: “Walk to School Week is an excellent opportunity for pupils across the UK to come together and celebrate the many benefits of walking to school.

“Schools that take part in Walk to School Week can enjoy reduced congestion and pollution, while children are well on their way to meeting the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity a day to stay fit, healthy and happy.”

Living Streets has been operating for 90 years and its campaigning led to the UK’s first zebra crossings and speed limits. It works now to “overcome barriers to walking”.

• For more information, visit www.livingstreets.org.uk/wtsw

Recently, we published evidence that cells use the chloride from salt to fight viral infections. Also, nasal irrigation with salt water helped reduce the cold in adults. Hence, we are now testing if salt water nose drops helps children fight the cold.

If you have a child under 7 years of age, you may be able to join the fight.

The Children’s Hospital in Edinburgh are doing a study of salt water nose drops to see if it helps get rid of the cold faster.

Your child does not need to have a cold right now to take part!

You can join right now by calling/texting 07973657457 for an appointment to sign up and to be taught what to do the next time your child has a cold.

Your child does not need to attend.

Families completing the study will receive travel expenses and a £30 voucher to compensate for any inconvenience.

Further information is in the attached flyer or at www.elviskids.co.uk ; Twitter: @elviskids; Facebook: Elvis Kids.

Please complete this survey through the link below by Thursday 12th May.

 https://forms.office.com/r/Nk2amd9ihu

Please see attached a letter from Professor Jason Leitch.

Letter to Parents and Carers from Jason Leitch National Clinical Director

Well done to these Primary 4 pupils. Both pupils showed great            independence and responsibility, helping and organising in class without being asked.  Super Leadership skills. I am very proud of you both. Keep up the great work!

Well done to these sporty Primary 4 pupils, fantastic achievements for swimming and karate. We are all very proud of you both.

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Please read this for your information and share it with your children.

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On behalf of Mrs Burns and the staff of St Joseph’s Primary school and Nursery class, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support, over the last few months.  We hope you have a lovely Easter holiday.

The school will finish as normal tomorrow, 1st April 2022 at 12.20pm with All resuming on, the 19th of April 2022 at, 8.45am.

We would like to congratulate our Primary 3 children who celebrated the Sacrament of Reconciliation last night in St Joseph’s church.  Thank you to Mr Neale, Mrs Wards and Mr Toner for preparing our children in school and to our parents for supporting their children at home.  A huge thank you also, to Fr. Sebastian for his support and spiritual guidance.

 

 

 

Dear Parents,

West Lothian Active Schools are asking every pupil to complete a survey. Please complete survey with or for each P1 to P4 pupil here.

A key feature of our current Health and Wellbeing strategy focuses on the use of, and benefits aligned with, participation in sport and physical activity.  Whilst we have some limited knowledge and insight regarding the physical activity levels of our pupils, a deeper understanding will be key to supporting and informing developments and future work across Health and Wellbeing, Active Schools provision, the delivery of PE and out of school opportunities.

In order to capture this detail, we have developed a Sport and Physical Activity survey that we would like all pupils to complete.

Results will support developments aligned to our PE, Physical Activity and Sport (PEPAS) strategy. Pupils in P5-S6 should complete the survey in school, with staff supervision.

In order to capture the information for pupils in P1-4 we need parental support, a separate survey link can be found below. Please complete as soon as possible for each pupil.

P1-4 survey link – https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKZe-9nvWm85PknH7UUV0HypUQzdUTzdWVVBDMDBVVlhZUDUxU0gwWlpKUS4u

P3 have followed up our Seeds experiment by finding out about the different parts of trees. We went into the playground this afternoon to find branches, trunks, roots and signs of leaves.