A kaleidoscope of colours was showcased as Easter Bonnets were made and donned by children at St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School for their last day of term today.  Even the inclement weather didn’t stop them from showing off their festive finery to celebrate Easter in the ancient tradition of renewal, re-birth and resurrection.  Massive well done to everyone for your spectacular creations. 

It was an eggstremely eggciting day for the younger children of St. Joseph’s Primary on today when they received a surprise visitor. Arriving on an open top bus, the children couldn’t believe their eyes when the Easter Bunny appeared and they were allowed to climb aboard the bus for an early Easter treat.

Executive Principal Mrs. O’Halloran, who was celebrating her birthday today, would like to eggspress her thanks to Stagecoach for providing the transport for the Easter Bunny, and also to the St. Joseph’s PTFA who kindly provided chocolate goodies for every child in the school.

Congratulations to our class winners for their amazing Science Week Projects:

Year R - Leighton

Year 1 - Ida

Year 2 - Nicole

Year 3 - Goerge

Year 4 - Jude

Year 5 - Eva

Year 6 - Isabel

What an amazing Science Week we have had at St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School’, each year group being challenged with a different science topic and the results were simply amazing, extremely interesting and sometimes spectacular in their design.  The week culminated in a Science Fair where the children demonstrated and showed their wonderful projects to the parents that were able to join us.  Mrs. Sproates, our Science Lead, expressed her thanks and how impressed she was with the amount of effort and imagination the children all put into their projects.

Across the school projects included rockets that could be launched and fly, bug hotels, habitats for real or imaginary animals, effects of light on surfaces, fossils, respiratory and circulatory systems, periscopes and suspension bridges.

Studies show that teaching others what you have learnt yourself can help you work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively.  Our wonderful  children not only learnt more by showing, explaining and answering questions from their peers, the younger year groups also learnt in an easy and engaging way.

Every day is a school day after all!

“Aim High, achieve together!”

Following a plea to parents for donations for our local food bank, Year 2 pupil   Jacob Gibbons set to work with his Hama Beads to make and sell his creations to his family and friends.  With the proceeds he decided that he wanted to donate every penny he earnt to fill our food bank and help local families in need across Thanet. 

Jacob has truly demonstrated one of St. Joseph’s core values by ‘caring’ for others and for the world around us.

When thanking Jacob for his amazing contribution he  said “I worked really hard and my efforts are definately worth it.  I'm going to do lots of different things to raise money for charity and then I may need to have 4 trolleys at the supermarket.  I want to be a charity worker when I grow up”. 

This term, in maths, Year 1 have been learning about taller and shorter objects. We have been comparing and measuring heights .

In science, we have been exploring objects up close using simple devices. We have been amazed by the details we have found on different objects. 

In writing , we have been learning to write in the third person , focusing on pronouns. Our current book focus is Stanley's stick by John Hegley 

It’s been a busy old week in Year 5. We have had drama and diaries in English looking at the feelings of Jim Jarvis as he is carted off to the workhouse in Street Child.

Maths has seen us continue to battle Decimals looking at ordering and comparing.

Science saw us take part in a 2000 pupil Virtual Science lesson with other KCSP schools where we investigated reaction times and asked the question:  “Who reacts quickest,  boys or girls?”

In art we have been drawing our own ‘retrofuturistic’ drawings inspired by the artwork of the 1950’s and 1960’s. History and the Vikings are invading (again).

Lydia won the six word story competition with her six word inspirational story and Olivier won Star of the Week for his exceptional maths work.

A great week. Thanks to Miss Winstone, Miss Hicks and Mrs Bugsel for their efforts this week.

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Year 6 have spent a very useful and informative morning at a 'Safety in Action' event run by SALUS.  They were given safety talks from Kent Police, the Fire and Rescue Service, The Coastguard and the British Transport Police.

The children learnt about first aid and practiced the skill of giving CPR, as well as learning how to stay safe online and being made aware of the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

All the organisations supporting this event are giving children vital information before they make the exciting and sometimes challenging transition to secondary school.  With a greater awareness of the risks associated with everyday life, it will enable our children to become more independent and know how to protect themselves.

As part of our World Book Week celebrations we have been designing portal doors.  The doors were designed by each class and are to show how you can be immersed in a story by stepping through a portal into another world! Designs included Narnia, The Tempest, Alice I Wonderland and Supertato.

This week in Year R we have been exploring our new topic People who help us. We discovered some vegetables in distress on Tuesday morning! We also discovered a letter from an evil Pea who had been causing all kinds of trouble, Mrs Tutte then introduced us to our story this half term ‘Supertato’ we then learnt Makaton signs for all the different vegetables. 

We have been getting creative in Topic learning about what it means to be a superhero and creating our own superhero costumes. We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about onomatopoeia words in Literacy and practiced using these through our KooKoo Kangaroo superhero song! 

Such a fun week, we are excited for all our new learning this half term!

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