St Joseph's PS Whitburn

 

Primary 4 getting into the Halloween spirit, creating their own skeletons, finding, measuring and comparing different sized bats, ghosts, mummies and spiders!

This week we are delighted to have Barrowland Ballet visit us through the Imaginate programme. Barrowland Ballet’s latest production “Family Portrait” comprises a video installation and a workshop. You can find more information below. The classes involved will be

Thursday 28^th October 2021 – Primary 2/1, Primary 5 and Primary 3

Friday 29^th October 2021 – Primary 4, Primary 5/4 and Primary 3/2

Workshop Information
Barrowland Ballet is one of Scotland’s most exciting and successful contemporary dance companies based in Glasgow. We are delighted to be visiting your school with our new immersive video installation, Family Portrait, with Theatre in Schools Scotland. You can find out more about us, and our show at www.barrowlandballet.co.uk/production/family-portrait/
Following the video installation, we will also be delivering post show dance workshops.
Please see below information in advance to ensure your child gets the most out of the experience.

1. Workshops will be taking place outdoors in the playground. Please ensure your child is prepared with clothing suitable for working outdoors including trainers, warm clothes and a waterproof jacket.
2. We request that each pupil taking part in the workshop brings with them something from nature.
   For example: conkers, autumn leaves, evergreen leaves, moss, ferns, small rocks, a stick with lichen.
   Please ensure your child brings something along on the workshop date mentioned above.
3. Please note that Barrowland Ballet will support the school to take photos and videos throughout the workshop. This is for the school only and we will not share publicly or share with any third parties.
   Any documentation taken will be treated and stored in line with both Barrowland Ballet and Imaginate’s Child Protection Policies. Barrowland Ballet will work with your school/teacher to ensure that footage, either photography or video, is not taken of any pupil who currently does not have school photography consent.
   Learn more about Theatre in Schools Scotland by visiting www.theatreinschoolsscotland.co.uk/

(Please note – Halloween Celebrations will take place around the workshops on Friday – come prepared for Halloween too!)

We have been:

• Learning the ‘m’ sound
• Learning tricky words “am, me, my”
• Identifying the subtraction sign
• Identifying the number which comes before within 10
• Learning subtraction facts within 5

Another fantastic week in P1! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Miss McCullagh

A huge welcome back after our mid-term break. We hope to continue the hard work and success we have had since the start of term.   The children have settled well into their new routines and are making great progress.

We welcome also, our new members of staff, Mr Paton-Day, P5 and Miss Coleman, P3/2.  We are sure they will enjoy their time here in St. Joseph’s.

During the October holidays, Miss Duffy was married during a beautiful ceremony, surrounded by family and friends.  She returns, as the new Mrs Fraser.  We wish her and her husband well.

We would like to congratulate, Mrs Thomson and her family on the birth of her new baby boy, Riley.  Mum and baby are doing well!

We would like to thank you for the positive response to Parental consultations, your support is very much appreciated.

 

During this term, extracurricular clubs will commence.  Further details of what is on offer will follow, once the details have been confirmed.

Dates for your diary have been attached and we are hopeful that further Christmas celebrations will take place.  However, this is dependent on the Covid-19 mitigations that are constantly under review.

As always, the school is supporting the West Lothian Foodbank this year.  A list of requested items is attached. The final day for donations is 12^th November 2021.

Diary Dates

foodbank appeal letter (1)

 

Mrs. Mooney

We have been:

• Learning the ‘n’ sound
• Revising common words ‘in, and, an’
• Learning addition facts to 6
• Learning about Our Lady
• Revising hello/ how are you/ classroom language and numbers in French

Another very busy week with the most amazing learning! Well done P1!

I hope you all have a wonderful October break!

Miss McCullagh

This week we have been learning about magnetism.

We know that magnets are attracted to some special metals and that these magnets have a North and and South pole.

We took part in several games and activities involving magnets.

#1 We predicted which objects we thought would be attracted to a magnet and then used a magnet to checked if we were right.

#2 We searched a treasure chest for magnetic objects.

#3 We tried to find the strongest magnet by counting how many paper clips it could pick up.

#4 We played a magnetic fishing game and tried to pick up Spongebob characters.

#5 We had to find objects around the classroom which were attracted to a magnet.

#6 We had to pick up spiders with hidden numbers underneath and then count up our total points at the end of the game.

This week we’ve been learning how to measure weight.

We had fun learning how to use the balance scales.

We then compared different fruits and vegetables to see which was heavier.

Finally we counted how many vegetables were equal to 1kg.

We have been:

• Learning the ‘p’ sound
• Learning common words ‘an, and, in’
• Learning addition facts to 5
• Learning about our incredible brain
• Celebrating maths week with lots of fun number activities
• Counting to 10 in French
• Learning the prayer- Hail Mary

Another fun filled week in P1!

We have been:

• Learning the “i” sound
• Common words “is, I, it”
• Learning more than, fewer than and equal to within 10 and identifying the signs for these
• The emotion happy and writing about what makes us happy!
• Classroom language in French
• All about our skin in science

Another super busy week in P1! I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend!

 

Miss McCullagh