Christmas Lunch The children enjoyed their Christmas lunch on Wednesday 10 th  December. A traditional Christmas dinner was served, catering to all children’s dietary and religious needs. This was enjoyed by all!

Year 5 have had a wonderful time during Advent, preparing for Christmas. Our Mini-Vinnies prepared and sent Christmas cards to the vulnerable and lonely in our community, we prepared our classroom to countdown and wait for Christmas day, unveiled our class knitted nativity scene, visited St. Mary’s Cathedral for our Cluster Carol Service and enjoyed a daily challenge to carry out acts of kindness for one another, in preparation for Jesus to come again.

This week, Year 1 gathered for a special Collective Worship. We talked about how we prepare for Jesus’ birthday, like decorating our homes and opening our Advent calendars. In groups we planned how we would gather, respond and go forth. Some children decorated the prayer focus and placed objects and pictures to support our reflection from the RE topic ‘Waiting’. We reflected on how Advent is a time to choose how we respond to God’s love and how we can go forth to share kindne

This week, Year 1 have been learning all about 2D shapes! We practised naming and recognising shapes such as circle, square, rectangle, triangle and even trickier ones like hexagon and pentagon. After exploring their properties, the children used these shapes to create beautiful Christmas pictures. We saw Christmas trees made from triangles, Snow people made from circles and presents from squares and rectangles. It was a fantastic way to combine maths with festive creativity!

This week, Year 1 explored the meaning and message of the Christingle. The children learned about each part of the Christingle and what it represents: The orange reminds us of the world. The four sticks represent the four seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter). The sweets and fruit  represent the gifts from God. The candle is a sign that Jesus is the Light of the World. The children enjoyed making and labelling their own Christingles and talked about why these symbols

Part of the choir club visited St Joseph’s Care Home to sing Christmas carols. The residents loved our singing and they have invited us back. The children gave handmade cards to the residents and it was a great afternoon.

We have had a great time preparing for Christmas. We helped to decorate the tree, sang carols and we enjoyed a Christmas party. We had a visit from a mischievous elf and even the Grinch visited our school disco. We made an advent calendar to count down to Christmas and carried out acts of kindness each day. Have a great Christmas!

Today, our nursery children received a very special delivery! While practicing our super listening and smart sitting, we heard the sound of jingle bells outside our classroom door. We wondered if it could be Santa’s sleigh—and we couldn’t believe our eyes when we opened the door to find a pile of presents waiting for us! Miss Manning kindly handed out the presents, and each one had a special gift tag with the children’s names on it. What a magical surprise it was, and such a

This week, we had our Nursery Christmas Party! We had so much fun playing games, winning prizes, and showing off our amazing dance moves with our friends. We finished the celebrations with some delicious party food. What festive fun! 🎄🎉

This week, the children in Nursery and Reception came together to celebrate the Advent Celebration of the Word. We talked about the many ways we prepare for Jesus’ birthday, including putting up our Christmas decorations and opening our Advent calendars. The children helped to dress the focus table, joined in singing hymns, and spent time in prayer as we joyfully prepared for this special season.

Throughout this term, Year 2 have enjoyed building teamwork skills during PE team games.   The children have worked on many skills that include: ·        Coordination ·        Teamwork ·        Communication ·        Problem-Solving ·        Strategic Thinking ·        Decision-Making ·        Understanding Rules ·        Confidence ·        Resilience ·        Motivation The children always look forward to these weekly sessions with Mr Stephenson.

We celebrated together to mark the end of our Advent topic. We wrote our prayers on the back of our class Advent Angel and selected scripture from our topic to share. We sang ‘The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came…’ to end our prayer time.

The Sleepy Shepherd Year 2, alongside Year 1, performed The Sleepy Shepherd as their nativity story. It told the story of the first Christmas through the eyes of a very sleepy shepherd who was visited by Angel Gabriel and told of the good news! The shepherd travels to meet the new baby Jesus, alongside the angels, stars, wise men and camels. He eventually finds Mary, Jospeh and of course baby Jesus in a stable and this is where it all begins. The children enjoyed telling the

This week, our children have been busy getting into the Christmas spirit! We celebrated Christmas Jumper Day, tucked into our delicious Christmas dinners, and wowed everyone with our fantastic nativity performance. Well done, boys and girls!

This week has been an exciting one for our Nursery children! Our focus story has been The Christmas Story , and we’ve been getting into the festive spirit with lots of Christmas crafts and plenty of nativity practice. We were also lucky to receive a special delivery from the elves, who brought us some beautiful Christmas decorations and a delicious advent calendar. To say thank you, the children created their own junk-modelled elf houses—our little way of spreading some Chris

Year 2 children joined an online webinar live from Antarctica. This was hosted by Robert Swan OBE,  the first person to walk to both poles,  and Jenny Cooke from the 2041 Schools charity and founder of Oddizzi, in which we are using for our Geography lessons. The children learned a lot about life in the Antarctica as well as the ongoing mission to save  Antarctica  from the realities of climate change. The children had the opportunity to ask questions and listen to the respon

We enjoyed wearing our Christmas jumpers on Christmas lunch day. Huge thanks go to our very own Y6 pupil photographer!

This week’s Good Samaritan showed the true spirit of St Joseph’s, giving up her own lunchtime to help one of our younger children. This good deed was noticed by several staff. What a star you are!!

Year 1. have been thinking about subtraction problems by finding out what each part is then using the following stem sentence to explain their answer.   If the whole is _____and _____ is a part, then the other part is ______.

The children have been sequencing the story, retelling the story and explaining how specific characters feel. We have shared adjectives to describe a character’s feelings as well as exploring different verbs to describe what the toys are doing.  The children have loved this story and have even created their own ending.  Have a look at some of our pictures where you will see the children's freeze frames and samples of work.