This week in Little Gems we began our new theme ‘Colours.’ We started by listening to the story ‘Elmer’ looking and identifying the colours. The children explored colours using shredded paper, thoroughly enjoying throwing the paper…
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Year 5: Poetry Perfection!
Congratulations to all students for completing term one of Spring. It is now time for a well-deserved rest. As always, we had a busy end to the term with many events taking place. Earlier in…
Read MoreYear 4: Prayer Service, Volcanoes, VR Headsets and Poetry!
A busy week to end this half term in Year 4! We began our week with a harmonious Prayer Service, the children read beautiful and thought-provoking prayers. The Prayer Service focused on the theme of…
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This week Year One participated in Safer Internet Day. The Digital Leaders from KS2 came to Year One to help the children learn about different ways they can be safe while being online. Year One…
Read MoreNursery: Bears and Online Safety
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…
Read MoreHow do media choices affect my child?
Common Sense Media has prepared a fantastic tool for all responsible adults. The tool that reviews media for families. First they asked some questions… then they rated TV shows, movies, apps, video games, books, and…
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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 6: Bird Watching
This week in Year 6, the pupils had their environmental studies time with Ms. Sofia. During the session, the pupils explored different corners of the school in search for birds. We had a checklist of…
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WINTER READING CHALLENGE Join your local library and take the reading challenge! Islington Libraries’ Winter Reading Challenge is on till 29th February 2024 The Winter Reading Challenge run by Islington libraries is FREE. Children need to read 4 books from their…
Read MoreYear 2: Safer Internet Day – Who are the grown-ups in your life that you can go to for help?
Safer Internet Day is held every February all around the world. Last year, over 170 different countries celebrated the day! Safer Internet Day is a chance to think about any worries we might have about…
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