Keeping Children Safe Online
The UK Safer Internet Resource Centre have a fantastic twitter account that can keep you informed and give guidance about how to keep your child safe online.
Here’s a leaflet about keeping under 5s safe online!
Click on the link below for the leaflet.
http://bit.ly/2QxxxEX
Remember to also check our school newsletter for the ‘e-safety tip of the month!’
Advent Family Mass – December 2018
Our final Family Mass was celebrated on Gaudate Sunday. Children wrote Advent prayers and promises in school and brought them forward during the offertory.
The third, pink Advent Candle which represents joy was lit.
Children then beautifully sang the final hymn. Da lawn pawb and thanks to all those who read and were involved in the Mass.
Community/ Parish Links
First Holy Communion caditates in Margam Parish create Advent prayers.
Learning to Learn
We are a Learning to Learn school.
We encourage our children to develop learning dispositions that will help them become more independent in their learning and helping them to become better learners, both in school and out. Through a range of approaches including developing a ‘Growth Minset’ – apositive approach to learning and Building Learning Power ( BLP )we are creating a culture in classrooms – and in the school more widely – that systematically cultivates habits and attitudes that enable young people to become better learners; face difficulty and uncertainty calmly, confidently and creatively.
What is Learning Power?
BLP is an approach to learning that we have begun to implement at St Joseph’s Infant School. This approach was created by Professor Guy Claxton. It is based on the idea that we are all capable of becoming better learners. BLP applies this idea directly to the work of teachers in the classrooms, to provide a practical framework for fostering lifelong learning in all young people.
At St Joseph’s Infant School, our school ethos is one of striving to be the best we can be, recognising that we all have different strengths and interests.
BLP and Growth Mindset allows us to nurture this ethos and build the children’s learning
power through a variety of strategies and techniques.
A Guide for Parents
‘Term on term, year on year, a BLP school breeds young people who are
more curious, more willing to take a risk and give it a go, more
imaginative, more creative, more thoughtful, more ready, willing and
able to learn with and through others. It’s developing this adventurous
spirit that counts’.
Professor Guy Claxton, originator of BLP
Autumn Term focus has been on developing strategies to be resilient. Our pupils have developed some BLP Monsters. Meet Rocky Resilient.
Using ICT for a variety of purposes 📸
We enjoy developing our ICT skills in Nursery – Da iawn Meithrin!
We were able to listen carefully, follow instructions and have a go!
Learning about Christmas in Nursery
Pupils talked about the parts of the Nativity story and sequenced picture cards correctly.
Developing fine motor skills (FMS) in Nursery
Developing our skills as we prepare for Christmas 🌟
Sharing Welsh stories in Nursery
Pupils enjoyed listening to ‘Tedi Twt ar y fferm’, learning animal names and counting in Welsh.
Nadolig Llawen from Estyn
We are very proud of the progress made by children in our school. Teaching and learning that develops both the spiritual and academic progress of every child, is at the centre of all that we do.
Exciting news. We will be welcoming a team from ESTYN week beginning January 14th 2019. This will be a great opportunity to share your views with the Team. Please go on line https://vir.estyn.gov.uk/questionnaires/pages/ParentLogin.aspx?lang=en-GB
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