Week beginning the 27th of August

Primary 1 have had a great start to their journey at St Joseph’s!  They have enjoyed investigating and exploring their new environment and have settled in really well. The Primary 7 Buddies have been absolutely fantastic helping the Primary 1’s with the playtime and lunchtime routines.  We have started learning our new sounds a, t, p and n, and have been using ‘Fred Talk’ to blend the sounds together to make words.

Gardening Gang 24th August 2018

Gardening gang update:
Friday saw the children who planted wheat seeds in the spring harvest their wheat. Sadly one bed of wheat had been infected with a funghal infection and we were advised not use it but we harvested the other bed and the wheat is now drying in a classroom, waiting to be threshed and winnowed.
And some children from P5 and P6, including some who helped with the planting, harvested our carrots, giant courgettes – now marrows! – and spring onions.
And big thanks to the parents who have helped prune the apple and pear cordons along the back fence and put up some meshing. This was because children (not from St Joe’s!) were seen taking fruit from through the fence and using it as footballs and missiles so the meshing is an effort to save the wonderful crop that is ripening and which we’re hoping to harvest with the children in the coming weeks.

Week beginning the 21st August 2018

Welcome back to P7 we hope you had a lovely long summer and had time to enjoy the great weather ! We are settling well into our new class – We revised  ‘Children’s Rights and completed lots of ‘Rights’ Challenges. We worked in groups to discuss our class rules, and we created ‘Our Class Charter’. We  set our ‘Goals for the year’. We found out how to use  ICT to create tables and graphs and use these skills to complete different challenges. We revised Place Value in Maths. We helped our P1 buddies settle in to school!  We also started our applications for House Captains, Football Captain, Netball Captain and Sports Captain. We are very excited about the year ahead!

 

Gardening Blog

Sorry we’re a bit late posting this one!!

Huge thanks to parent Mike (Katie, P6) for strimming all along the cordons and the back fence along the raspberries meaning it’s no longer a jungle but we haven’t had to use weed killer. Also huge thanks to those who have offered to water over the summer to keep everything the children have planted alive!
The P3s have completed planting in their competition tyre – we will be judged in September when Burgh Beautiful visits the school. The P6’s wheat is huge and is starting to grow ears of wheat. Our last physic garden session saw the group make iced mint tea from mint in the garden (four liked, four didn’t) and sage toothpaste from the herb.
Our whole garden is looking beautiful so a big thanks to everyone who has contributed over the last academic year !

Gardening Gang 22nd June 2018

Big thanks to parents Lorraine, Jenny, Vicky, Moray and Orla who came along to help with the adult gardening work on Friday. Thanks to Moray for her work on the weeding – strimming still needs doing but hoping to have an update on that later in the week. Our other parents painted – some before, during and after pics attached. All looking much brighter but most items will need another coat of paint so (weather depending). All gratefully received if you have any time to spare.

 

 

P3 Week Beginning 18th June

Marches and Gala Day this week! We are looking forward to taking part in the parade tomorrow. We will be rocking! Our highlights during this week include:

  • We have been learning about fractions in Maths
  • We created timelines of the Beatles
  • We made Rookie Rockstar pictures for the school Gala Day banner.
  • We learnt about the World Cup and designed World Cup footballs and played World Cup top trumps.
  • We have been auditioning for St Joseph’s Got Talent ‘SJGT’ and the big show is on Monday next week
  • We had our last shiny Friday of the year
  • We were visit by the Wild about Scotland bus and learnt about the reintroduction of beavers
  • We received our school reports
  • We wrote letters to Mrs Grant

Week beginning 11th of June

This week St.Joseph’s performed an amazing show with the Rookie Rockstars to the school community.  We showed off all the songs and dance moves we learned, it was fantastic! We went to the Linlithgow Book Festival to see Morag Hood talk about her books.  We really enjoyed listening to the story ‘I am Bat’.

 

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