We had a fantastic time this week making snowmen!
Snow Days at St Joseph’s
Primary 7 – Week beginning the 15th January
Welcome back to our Blog.
This week in Primary 7:
- some of us have been skiing and snowboarding. We had a fantastic time and learnt how to do a toe edged slide and a heel edged slide
- in Literacy we continued with our persuasive arguments – (a speech from Hitler to convince the Germans to fight)
- in Maths we completed our work on ‘Algebraic Equations’ and started to investigate Fractions
- in Topic we really enjoyed finding out about the Home Front
- in Art we completed our evacuees
- in music we pratised playing ‘The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond’ on our trumpets.
- outside we had a fantastic time building snowmen!
It’s been a great week at St’ Joseph’s!
Week beginning 15th of January
This week primary 2 have been learning to word build with the soft c sound. We have been writing a story using ‘Rosie’s Walk’ as a stimulus with a focus on prepositions. In topic we have been learning about food which comes from plants and animals. We played a game to match the food items to the animal or plant it comes from. We worked as a team to build fantastic snowmen in the playground!
Week Beginning 15th January
It has been a very wintery week at school with lots of snow to play with outside. This week’s highlights include:
- We had shiny Friday where we got to work in our committees and masterclasses
- We have been creating some artwork in the style of Charles Mackintosh
- In Maths we have been learning to add using vertical recording and the three times table
- Some of us have started our Reconciliation lessons with Mrs Taylor
- Our value this week in Health and Wellbeing has been friendship
- We created Gruffalo wanted posters using Scots words
- We have been looking at and learning some Scots words and poetry
- We have been learning the months of the year in French
Week beginning 8th of January 2018
Happy New Year! Hope you have had a lovely holiday. Primary 2 have had a great start to the term by learning about our new topic ‘Farm to Fork’. We have written imaginative stories about a walk in the Winter, We used oil pastels and paint to make a Winter tree picture. We have started practising our Scottish song ‘Katie Bairdie’ to present at our Burn’s Assembly.
Week Beginning the 8th January
Happy New Year everyone. Primary 3 hopes you had a fantastic holiday. This week’s highlights include:
- We have been making 2018 calendars
- We have been learning about New Year celebrations
- We made a 2018 booklet which including things we are looking forward to and things that we are going to try and stop doing. For example some of us said we are going to stop leaving our bedrooms messy!
- We have been thinking about how we got on with last terms targets and looking at our Profiles.
Slippers For Shelter
Thanks to all those who wore their slippers and brought in a donation .
Well done , thanks to your help we were able to send £264 to the homeless at Christmas.
Week beginning the 9th January 2018
Happy New Year!
Welcome back to our P7 blog. We hope you had a great Christmas! This week we have continued with our WW2 topic.
In Literacy -we investigated how we to use persuasive language. We put ourselves in Hitler’s place to write a speech to the German people convincing them to fight! We used super sentence starters and evidence to support our point of view.
In Maths- we continued to solve algebraic equations.
In Topic – we studied the Home Front…. we looked at The Blitz and Evacuation,
In ICT – we found out how to use Microsoft publisher to create a Government Leaflet on Evacuation.
In Art – we created our own gas masks and started to create evacuees.
Last Post of 2017 from P5!
A very happy Christmas to one and all.
As we reach the end of what has been another wonderful week, it is also a time to reflect on some of the lovely moments we as a class have shared together.
Throughout the week we have maintained our focus around Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. We have reached the end of the story and have enjoyed discussing and presenting our ideas as to which ghost had the biggest impact on Scrooge. We created presentations to based upon each ghost’s point of view and tried to persuade the class it was the right one. Throughout this lesson Mr Reed’s opinions changed significantly as we put forward our reasons for our choices. We have some budding lawyers in our class!
We also found out this week the results from tour enterprise topic. We were delighted to find out that collectively we raised £392.68 profit. This is a staggering accomplishment and one that has impressed everyone in our school. We discussed how we wanted to spend the money came up with lots o f ideas . We still have a few areas to finalise but we will be supporting one or two charities, we will be reinvesting a percentage of the money and also purchasing some resources for our class. We look forward to sharing more with you as we reach a definitive decision.
With Christmas parties, reward afternoon and celebration assemblies it is however the end of term and with that we would like to wish each of you a very happy Christmas and a wonderful new year, or in the words of Tiny Tim ‘God Bless Us, Every One!’
St. Joseph’s Church Nativity – Grandpa’s Christmas Story
Here are lots of photo’s kindly taken by Amber’s mum! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from St. Joseph’s
