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We are always busy here at St. Joseph's. Have a look at some of the things that have been going on in school recently ...

• Year 5 on Blue Peter

  Sat 21 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  If you didn’t get chance to see Year 5 live on Blue Peter, you can always watch on BBC iPlayer!

   

  Click here to follow the link to the episode on BBC iPlayer!

• Y2 Programming the Beebots

  Thu 19 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  Year 2 used the BeeBots in their computing lesson today to learn all about programming. In groups, they gave the BeeBots a set of instructions using directional language and experimented with the sequence and order of them. They then discussed how to debug the BeeBots. They had a great time learning!

  

• Exploring the snow!

  Wed 18 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  There's nothing quite like freshly fallen, powdery snow! The children had a

  lovely time in it at playtime this morning!

  

• Year 4 Computer research in RE

  Wed 11 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  Year 4 have been researching the religious lives and inspiration of either: Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa or St Francis of Assisi. The children worked very hard searching for the most accurate facts. Well done, Year 4

  

• Author visit to Year 1 & 2

  Wed 11 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  Author Kathy Tallentire visited our Year 1 and Year 2 classes last week. She read her book, 'The Whisker Twitchers' to the class and talked about the process she goes through of writing books.

  She spoke to the class about how they could change the characters in the story to make it their own. The children came up with some amazing ideas about what changes they could make.

  To finish the session, Kathy read another one of her books, 'Rescue Me', which the children thoroughly enjoyed. The children were all delighted when they were given their own copy of 'The Whisker Twitchers' to take home!

  

• Rocket building inn Reception!

  Fri 06 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  Reception class have been listening to the story 'Whatever Next!' this week. They have enjoyed making their own rockets using the building blocks outside.

  

• Epiphany Blessings

  Fri 06 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  To celebrate the Feast of The Epiphany, Fr Craig visited school this afternoon to bless some chalk so that some of our prayer leaders could use it to bless their classrooms for the new year ahead. They did a super job of leading their classes in prayer.

  

• Y2 Measuring in metres

  Fri 06 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  Year 2 have been comparing lengths using metres in their maths lessons. They measured different coloured lines on the playground with a metre stick and compared them when back in class.

  

• Y2 local area walk in Geography

  Fri 06 Jan 2023 Mrs Hannett

  Yesterday in their Geography lesson, Year 2 followed a map to walk around the local area in Darlaston looking at human and physical features. On their walk they noticed that most of the features in our local area are made by people which makes them human features.

  

• Christmas Crafts

  Fri 16 Dec 2022 Mrs Hannett

  There were lots of lovely Christmas craft going on in classes yesterday!