Welcome back to what I can promise will be a wonderful year. We have so many new and exciting things planned for the children and I am sure as the days go on you will get to hear about some of what we have been discussing in class. Chatting with many of the children over the last couple of days it is evident that a good holiday was had by all.

Knowing the children well has allowed us to get stuck into our learning from day one, we have already started our topic and introduced our focus for art which the children seem really excited about.

I look forward to seeing many of you at our meet the teacher session on the 12th September where I will be able to share with you in more depth the areas that we plan to cover this year.

Mr Reed

This week we have been having fun preparing for next year, we have been thinking about topics and what we would like to learn about. We have been busy creating our first display for our new classroom even before we break up.

On Friday we made a life size model of an osprey nest and found it amazing that it was so big. We managed to fit our entire class into it and there was room left over. 

Primary 1 have had a very busy and exciting week.  We went to the Rugby club on Monday to see the author Alan Windram read his books ‘One Button Benny’ and ‘A Puppy’s Tale’.  We also had our amazing performance of ‘Mary Poppins’.  On Friday we had moving up morning where we got to visit our new Primary 2 teacher Mrs Grant.

This week has been amazing, we have been working so hard towards our whole school production of Mary Poppins. It was great fun to be able to perform to so many adults we all felt like stars. 

Today has been our moving on day, we went to our new classroom to see what it was like. We are pleased to be having Mr Reed again next year and we talked about some of our highlights from the year and some of our hopes and dreams for next year. Mr Reed has already hinted at some of the topics that we may be looking at. We have already hinted at some school trips that we would like to go on next year.

Primary 5

Dear Parents and carers, I am delighted to be moving on with the children next year and building on the wonderful year that we have shared together. The children have already been keen to plan ahead the year and what topics they would like to cover. As we all approach the end of the year, I would like to thank you for all the work you do with  your children, I have greatly enjoyed hearing and reading about the various homework tasks.

Mr Reed

Primary 1 have had another great week!  We have been learning to read and spell words containing consonant blends ‘ng’ and ‘nk’.  Fischy music came in to teach us songs and we put on a concert in the afternoon.  We had our very first ‘Box Play’ where we had great fun using our imagination to come up with ideas of how we could play with a cardboard box!

It has been another fun filled week here at St. Joseph’s. We have been busy enjoying lots of fun learning. Over the week we have been regularly looking in at the osprey chicks and marvelling at how much they grow every day. We witnessed the adults bringing in fish and even a huge brown trout which was quickly gobbled up by the birds.

It was a real treat to have ‘Fishy Music’ come into school to teach us some new songs which we then sung in our very own concert.

We have been continuing our learning about Oliver Twist and finally got to meet Fagin, we had lots of fun getting to know this amazing and interesting character.

We have been learning about time during our maths sessions and are growing in confidence at using the 24 hour clock.

Thursday was our outdoor box play day and we had such fun using our imagination to build structures of all types. For some of us it was a great opportunity to see how many boxes we could actually fit in.

Friday we had our very own launch party as we formally introduce Free Write Fridays not only to the rest of the school but to all the schools in our cluster. Mr Reed has been so impressed with our work during these sessions he has not stopped telling teachers from other schools how amazing our work has been. We launched with a party in our class and the opportunity to use pens that we had made into quills. Mr Reed has said that our launch party will be seen by the other schools as we will be tweeting what we love about these sessions.

  Primary 5