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Missio Groups are now up and running in Year 2.  Most pupils have chosen to be part of 4 groups:

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St Joseph’s

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Leaders

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Our local community, St Joseph’s and Our Lady of Margam & Briton Ferry Setting up and helping to lead prayer partnerships Leading and helping to collective worship in school Working with the wider world

Missio World Update: Our charities for this term are Sheler Cymru and Food Bank Port Talbot. Missio members chose potential charities and all classes voted.  Missio St Joseph’s met with Mike Newell to share their imaginative ideas for a new prayer area in the school grounds. They will be organising an art competition open to all in the new year. Watch this space. Missio Prayer Leaders have shared a prayer inspired by Pope Francis

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Advent is here!

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Dear Parents/Carers,

As we move into the season of Advent, we remember the four candles on the Advent wreath. Please take a moment to talk about the first candle, the first Sunday of Advent when we focus on Hope. This seems very fitting in these challenging times. Mark’s Gospel reminds us, ‘Be on your guard, stay awake, because you never know when the time will come.’

As a whole school community we have revisited our school values. We want our children to be loving and to love God and the wider world.

The Birth of Jesus Please help your child make links in their learning and become faith filled. How? Take some time to read the nativity story with your child. Start with Mary’s good news and read the journey and the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Find time to pray.  For traditional prayers, focus on one prayer at a time. Start with the sign of the cross, then the Hail Mary, Our Father and Glory Be. Prayers from the heart. At bedtime and first thing in the morning try to find some space to talk to Jesus with your child. In Advent, maybe think about a prayer of thanks, of love, of joy of peace.

Living Wisely, Thinking Deeply, Loving Generously. Meet our Missio Prayer Leaders

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Meet our Missio Prayer Leaders

Today we would like to share our Missio prayer with you.

It is taken from one of our assemblies  when we thought about ‘How we can care for God’s world?’

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Our whole school has been working on how we can be well.

We had lots of fun during our Wellbeing Day.

We took time to reflect on our God given gifts from God and time to thank God for our talents during collective worship.

Come have a go at our Rainbow Breathing

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Breathe in for a count of 4, and say  “Live wisely”

Breathe out for a count of 4, and say “Love generously”

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Beat flu- Common side effects from nasal vaccine

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We will shortly be visited by our school nurses who will administer the nasal flu vaccine.

Common side effects from the nasal spray vaccine are usually mild and only last a day or two but may include:

  • a stuffy runny nose
  • Headache
  • aching muscles
  • reduced appetite
  • slight temperature

If you have any questions talk to your school nurse or call NHS Direct Wales on 9845 4647 or 111

www.beatflu.org

 

Improving our learning environment to provide the very best learning opportunities

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In line with the school’s vision for Curriculum for Wales:

 

Our School Vision

We are a Welsh Catholic school with a strong sense of community that caters for children from the age of 3 to 7. Our school vision is encapsulated in our school motto ‘We can do our best and God will do the rest!’  and in Article 29 – ‘Your right to be the best you can be.’ Our Catholic vision and values are at the core of everything we do. They guide our children and underpin our teaching and learning, and provide an environment which prepares our children as confident happy citizens of Wales and of the wider world.  We provide a Christian Community where the Catholic Faith is taught and nurtured, giving learners the best possible learning experiences and outcomes. We are extremely proud of all that goes on here.

The teachers, Governors and children have been working to deliver the very best learning environment in which to embed our new curriculum. During the Summer holidays a number of building projects have gone on.

 

OUTSIDE LEARNING PROVISION- Learning Hwb

Neath Port Talbot CBC have funded the building of an outside classroom, which the children have named ‘the bandstand’.

 

 

 

OUTSIDE CLASSROOM

A covered area has also been built to allow learning activities to take place adjacent to the ramp accessing Reception and Year 1 classrooms.

 

 

 

 

 

New Admissions- Become part of the St Joseph’s Family of Schools

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Admissions for Saint Joseph’s Infant School

 

St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School is a Christ centred caring and effective learning community, where pupils aged 3-7 years celebrate through prayer and worship their love of God. Walking in the footsteps of Christ we work together to prepare our children to be resilient, resourceful  learners, to love one another and help others. Our aim is to provide the very best learning experience for each and every child.

 

Saint Joseph’s Infant school has excellent transition with St Joseph’s Junior School and St Joseph’s Catholic Sixth Form Centre, providing a Catholic education from 3-18 years. If you would like to become part of our family of Catholic schools and you would like us to be partners with you, as your child take the first steps in formal education please contact:

Ms Julie Beaumont Headteacher on 01639 882579 or

Email: stjosinf@npt.school

Nursery Classes September 2021 and September 2022  To ensure that we allocate places to Catholic children as is our mission, we are now collecting names for those children born between 1st September 2018 and 31st August 2019 and 1st September 2019 and August 2020

 

 

 

Our St Joseph’s Pupil Profile: Our Values and Virtues

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Our Pupil Profile: Our Values and Virtues

As a Catholic School in the Diocese of Menevia, we have embraced the Catholic Schools’ Pupil Profile, which teaches the children a set of eight pairs of virtues to be internalised and cultivated –

enabling them to grow in wholeness as fully rounded individuals in the image of God.

The pairs of virtues are:

 

  1. Grateful and generous                                                
  2. Attentive and discerning
  3. Compassionate and loving
  4. Faith-filled and hopeful
  5. Eloquent and truthful
  6. Learned and wise
  7. Curious and active
  8. Intentional and prophetic

 

At St Joseph’s Infant School, the children are growing to be:

 

          Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, now and in the future.

 

Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.

 

Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.

 

Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.

 

Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relations between people, and the world.

 

Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.

 

Curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better

 

Intentional in the way they live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience and prophetic in the example they set to others.

 

Each half Term we explore ways in which we can develop in our virtues and values.

Saint Joseph’s Catholic Pupil Profile

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Our Pupil Profile: Our Values and Virtues

 

As a Catholic School in the Diocese of Menevia, we have embraced the Catholic Schools’ Pupil Profile, which teaches the children a set of eight pairs of virtues to be internalised and cultivated –

enabling them to grow in wholeness as fully rounded individuals in the image of God.

 

 

 

The pairs of virtues are:

 

  1. Grateful and generous                                                
  2. Attentive and discerning
  3. Compassionate and loving
  4. Faith-filled and hopeful
  5. Eloquent and truthful
  6. Learned and wise
  7. Curious and active
  8. Intentional and prophetic

 

At St Joseph’s Infant School, the children are growing to be:

Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, now and in the future.

 

Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.

 

Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.

 

Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.

 

Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relations between people, and the world.

 

Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.

 

Curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better

 

Intentional in the way they live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience and prophetic in the example they set to others.

 

Each half Term we explore ways in which we can develop in our virtues and values.