Nursery spent the final week of their ‘Animal Fun’ theme learning about bears. We read our key text, ‘Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?’ and enjoyed retelling it with masks and binoculars to…
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Year 5 Maths Challenge
This week, St Joseph’s was extended the fantastic opportunity to participate in Douglas Buchanan’s Maths Challenge. Born and educated in Zimbabwe, Douglas Buchanan taught for seven years there before arriving in England in 1981. Buchanan…
Read MoreYear One: Liturgy of the Word and Marvellous Mathematics!
This week in Year One, the children took part in their Liturgy of the Word with their classmates, and invited their families to join in with them in prayer. Year One would like to thank…
Read MoreNursery Learn About Pets
This week Pearl Class have been talking about pets. We learnt about what is involved in looking after a pet, and some of us shared how we do this with our own pets at home….
Read MoreYear 2: Welcome Back!
Happy New Year to everyone! It’s been a busy first week back for Year 2. The pupils continued their learning about shapes in Maths by moving onto looking at 3D shapes and their properties. The…
Read MoreNursery Makes a Cake
The children have continued their learning about birthdays this week. We have been making birthday cakes, cards and hats. We learnt about birthdays in different countries and had a go at singing ‘Happy Birthday’ in…
Read MoreExploring the Woodlands
This week, Reception has spent lots of time exploring our woodland walk. We started the week off by sharing our focus text in the Treehouse. The children listened to the story of the Gruffalo and…
Read MoreYear One: Maths and Science
Year one have been working really hard in their maths lessons this week. We have been using our reasoning and problem-solving skills to find a missing part of an addition sum. Year One have been…
Read MoreYear 2: Marvellous Mathematicians!
This week in Maths, Year 2 continued their topic – Addition and Subtraction. The children enjoyed solving some problems using concrete objects such as dienes and counters. They then applied their increasing knowledge of mental…
Read MoreSuccessful Sapphire!
What a fantastic start to the week for Year 4 Sapphire Class! We have been working extremely hard in school and at home, especially on Time Table Rock Stars (TTRS)! Mr Forbes kindly presented us…
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