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Year 2 Visit to Wallington Hall
Year 2 enjoyed a wonderful day at Wallington Hall. We took time to enjoy nature and looked at the different plants and trees it had to...
Jul 2, 20251 min read


Year 2 Scotswood Nature Garden
Year 2 enjoyed a morning at Scotswood Nature Garden. They first learned to identify different types of minibeasts by investigating the...
Jul 2, 20251 min read


Year 2 Design and Technology
Moving Monsters Year 2 children designed and made their own moving monsters. They used cardboard for the materials and then used a...
Jul 2, 20251 min read


Bon Voyage
The Year 6 pupils were fantastic ambassadors for St Joseph’s throughout our inaugural France residential. It was an amazing experience...
Jun 27, 20251 min read


Year 6 Youth Festival
At the YMT Festival in this year of jubilee, our Year 6 pilgrims of hope felt celebrated and encouraged to recognise their call to be...
Jun 27, 20251 min read


Week Beginning 2nd June
This week we have been super busy learning about sea creatures! Our focus story is Commotion in the Ocean, we have learned lots of facts...
Jun 13, 20251 min read


Nursery Gardening
This week in Nursery we have been busy getting our outdoor area summer ready! We discussed what plants need to grow and then planted our...
Jun 13, 20251 min read


Languages Day
Languages Day Year 2 took part in Languages Day. We had a great day learning about different languages and cultures within our classroom....
Jun 13, 20251 min read


Year 2 Fractions
Year 2 have been learning about fractions of shapes and numbers. They found halves and quarters. Some children used their knowledge of...
Jun 13, 20251 min read


Year 2 Chicks Visit
The children in Year 2 had some very cute and fluffy visitors in class! We discussed the life cycle and needs of a baby chick. They...
Jun 13, 20251 min read


Y6 Careers
Today Y6 had a visit from a secondary maths teacher and a film producer. Katie Storey gave an insight into secondary maths while Jenn...
Jun 13, 20251 min read


Languages Day in Year 6
It was fantastic to share our wide range of home languages and national dress. We talked about our own sense of identity and what that...
Jun 13, 20251 min read


Year 4 Languages Day
Year 4 had a great day celebrating languages. The children enjoyed lots of activities and they had great questions for our visitors.
May 23, 20251 min read


Prayers for Pope Francis
Year 5 took the time to write individual prayers for Pope Francis during their RE lesson. They reflected on his leadership and his role...
May 22, 20251 min read


Draeger Workshop
Year 5 had an exciting opportunity to work with Vicki Stone from Draeger, a company that creates safety and medical technology. Over the...
May 22, 20251 min read


Mass
This week we have been working with our talk partners to make predictions whilst learning all about measuring and comparing weight. What...
May 22, 20251 min read


Skipping
We have been so impressed with the children’s motivation and perseverance at learning a new skill. Many of the children have been trying...
May 22, 20251 min read


PE
During PE we have been learning what agility means and finding out how to move our body quickly and easily in a variety of ways. We have...
May 22, 20251 min read


Geography
We were fascinated as we explored Newcastle using Google Earth, looking at human and physical geographical features in our local area. We...
May 22, 20251 min read


Life Science Centre
Year 1 visited the Life Science Centre in Newcastle and had a fabulous day. The day was split into different activities, which included a...
May 22, 20251 min read
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