The school’s gardening gang had their first outing of 2019 on Friday, with P1 and P3 planting snowdrops. These snowdrops came from the verge on the road leading out of Linlithgow towards the motorway where they weren’t surviving very well – many thanks to Kirsty from Burgh Beautiful for suggesting we could make a better home for them at St Joe’s and for helping to dig them up for us. P1 planted them around the infant playground, and P3 around the rest of the school grounds. They chose some very interesting spots! Many thanks to Henry’s mum for coming along to help!
Thanks to the Fundraising Committee for working so hard … and the wonderful support form our parents, families and friends the first St. Joseph’s Christmas Ball was a great success! The amazing sum of £1,400 was raised.
Hi everyone welcome back to our blog. This week in primary 7 in Literacy we used the Fox tool to take notes quickly and share our notes with our group, then we used these notes to continue to write our balanced argument on ‘The Treaty of Versailles’ . In Maths we investigated long division problems. We found about about ‘Conscription’ during WW2 and we completed our poppy pictures for our ‘Lest we Forget’ wall display. Then we looked at facial proportions and sketched Hitler’s portrait. On Tuesday we went to see ‘We Will Rock You’ at St. Kent’s, we thought it was amazing and enjoyed seeing our former pupil Ciara on stage. Mrs McLean saw Niamh on Thursday night. Both girls were fantastic. We are very proud of them! Finally we ended our week with our Sportshall Athletic challenge.
Hello everyone. This week in P7 we have immersed ourselves in our new topic ‘War and Conflict’. We found out more about WW1 and WW2. In Literacy we wrote a balanced argument on ‘The Treaty of Versailles, in ‘Topic’ we found out what actions Hitler took to start WW2. In Maths we revised Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. In Reading we found out about Armistice and sold poppies for Poppy Scotland. Joseph brought in Remembrance and Victory medals from WW1. Well done to Eilish for her Bronze medal at the Wallace Fencing Academy. Its been a busy week in P7
Many fabulous cakes and biscuits were baked for the Saint Joseph’s family Bake-Off. Our Star baker was Lewis Munroe! Other winners were Rosa, Mark, Cassidy and Sam, Ellie and Kerr and Calum and Alfie. Well done to all for the terrific response and support. You helped raise £317 for school funds.
This week we continued to harvest our apples (and pears) with P2, P3 and a group from P6 – we had such a bumper harvest that every child in the school has been given either an apple or a pear grown at St Joseph’s, plus we have lots of apples for our apple day next Friday.
And P7 threshed the wheat they had grown and harvested this week – the teaching assistants all very pleased it’s now disappeared from the hall windowsills and thanks to them for rescuing it during the storm when water was leaking in! I think the pupils enjoyed bashing it about in pillowcases to separate the grains from the stalks – bundle of straw going begging for anyone with a rabbit or other animal which could use it! Big thanks again to farmer Ian from Tranent who replaced the wheat we lost to disease and to the Royal Highland Education Trust for organising that and bringing the wheat to the school.
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