Classes 2020/21

Classes for 2020 will be organised into 4 groups, with the addition of Nursery sessions which will be led by Mrs Coughlin.

Where a year group is split teachers will liaise and plan with one another to ensure the same curriculum content is taught to children of the same age group.

 

Classes and Teaching Staff for September 2020

Year Group                    Teacher

Year 2                             Miss Wellington

Year 1                             Mrs Turner

Year 1/ Reception       Mrs James

Reception                     Mrs Mapp/ Mrs Torrance

Nursery                         Mrs Coughlin

 

Q and A : Your questions answered

Why have we split the classes?

Splitting the classes enables us to have smaller class sizes across the school.

 

Meet your teacher!

Year 2 – Miss Wellington

 

 

Year 1 – Mrs Turner

 

 

Reception/Year 1 – Mrs James

 

 

Reception – Mrs Mapp & Mrs Torrance

 

 

Nursery – Mrs Coughlin

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have been contacted by NPT Health and Wellbeing Team and asked to share very important link  to Health Board information relating to childhood vaccination. Keep safe:)

Many thanks,

Ms Beaumont

Please see the links below to the Health Board webpages containing information about childhood vaccinations during the pandemic.  We would be grateful if you could share these links with parents via your usual communication methods.

English: https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/go/childhood-vaccinations/

Welsh: https://bipba.gig.cymru/ewch/brechu-plant-yn-ystod-y-pandemig/

Message from NPT Local Authority

 

Dear Parent / Carer

 

In response to the early lockdown period, Neath Port Talbot local authority provided hub childcare facilities for critical workers. This was an immediate response to the emergency childcare needs for those on the frontline of the national cause to minimise the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Schools were repurposed in line with Welsh Government’s guidance to provide these facilities.

 

Following consultation with other agencies including the NHS and as we progress our national recovery programme, the same level of need no longer exists and the lifting of restrictions allows for childcare to be delivered by more normal means. The repurposing of schools has been reversed and as a result, the local authority will not be providing summer childcare for critical workers. This decision is in accordance with other neighbouring local authorities, Welsh Government decisions and paves an opportunity for childcare providers in Neath Port Talbot to re-establish their businesses and ensure that childcare needs are met accordingly.

 

Families wishing to access childcare are welcome to contact the local authority’s Family Information Service (fis@npt.gov.uk ) who will provide a list of registered providers who would be able to meet their needs.

 

The local authority’s Children Services and Education Directorate are currently constructing a summer support programme for our most vulnerable learners, many of whom have found lockdown conditions particularly challenging and detrimental. This programme will seek to deliver bespoke support for those assessed to be our most isolated children and young people suffering from increased stresses and substantial psychological inequality. The programme will be configured around current resource, allowing services to deliver increased opportunities for safe social interaction and enhanced wellbeing and mental health interventions.

 

Again, we would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to parents and carers for their understanding and cooperation during these challenging times.

 

Yours sincerely,

Aled Evans

Director of Education, Leisure and Lifelong Learning

 

Neges gan Awdurdod Lleol CNPT

Dear children, Parents, Carers, Staff and friends of St. Joseph’s Infant School, 

Wishing everyone a Happy Easter!  

 

 I just wanted to pen a few lines to my St Joseph’s Family and make sure you knew, you are all in my thoughts and prayers and that I am really missing you all. Well done to the children for the great posts on See Saw, there is a great deal of hard work still being done at home.  Well done Mums and Dads for helping children with their learning. This certainly is an Easter with a difference. No traditional Easter celebrations, no Easter Egg hunt, no Easter bonnet parade, no Easter service led by Year 2, but these things were not meant to be. 

A huge vote of thanks and our prayers goes out to those Key Workers in NHS who are looking after the sick and vulnerable, and those who are working to provide food in our shops and keep our community working. Huge thanks also to our staff who have volunteered over the Easter break to look after the children of NHS staff. 

Pope Francis’ Easter message:  

“What a joy it is for me to announce this message: Christ is risen! I would like it to go out to every house and every family, especially where the suffering is greatest.” 

Monsignor Joseph encourages you all to pray together, “The family prays together stays together.” Please hold in your thoughts and prayers our loved ones who are ill, all those who are alone and all who are working on our behalf to help us. We especially pray for those in the NHS who are working on the front line. Please try to find some time daily to pray with your children, remember to pray for us as we pray for you.  

Keep safe, 

Ms Julie Beaumont and the staff of St Joseph’s Infant School 

Monday	Head: JBR Whole School
Tuesday	Lead: Mrs Sarah Turner (1), Mrs Elaine Mapp (2) Whole School
Wednesday	Mass: St Joseph’s Parish 9:30am
Thursday	Lead: Miss Aimee Wellington(1), Mrs Kath Torrance (2) Whole School
Friday	Whole Class Collective Worship

School Collective Worship will follow the Church’s Seasons

 

Advent

• Is the first Sunday of the Church’s year
• It is the fourth Sunday before Christmas
• It is the time to prepare ourselves to celebrate the birth of Jesus
• The advent candles are lit during this season

 

Christmas

• Celebrating the birth of Jesus
• The fixed date of 25^th December (was originally the date of a pagan festival)

 

Epiphany

• January 6^th – 12 days after Christmas
• Remembers the baptism of Jesus and the Good News being taken to the Gentiles (non-Jews)
• Often linked to the arrival of the Wise Men in Bethlehem

 

Lent

• A time to reflect on ourselves and our relationship with God
• Starts on Ash Wednesday and continues for 40 days (the length of time Jesus was in the wilderness and was tempted by the devil)
• Christians often ‘give up’ something for Lent
• The 4^th Sunday of Lent is ‘Mothering Sunday’ or ‘Refreshment Sunday’ when the disciplines of Lent can be rested!

 

Holy Week

• Palm Sunday / Maundy Thursday / Good Friday

 

Easter

• The resurrection and appearances of Jesus

 

Pentecost

• Celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost (50 days after Easter) and the beginning of the mission of the Church

 

‘Ordinary ‘Time

• The Sundays which follow Pentecost (except Trinity Sunday) are sometimes called Sundays in ‘Ordinary Time’
• This season includes, Harvest Trinity Sunday and All Saints day

 

• The four basic liturgical colours are white, green, red and purple. The traditional symbolism of these colours is:
  • WHITE/GOLD – innocence, purity, victory, joy, resurrection;
  • GREEN – hope, growth, increase, life;
  • RED ‐ sacrifice (particularly the sacrifice of life), charity, zeal, Holy Spirit;
  • PURPLE – sorrow, penitence, preparation.

 

Working together to provide the best support for you and your children.

NPT are offering free child pick from school if parents meet the following criteria.

NPT ask:

Do you work 16 hours or more a week?

Is your child 3 or 4 years old?

Do you live in Neath Port Talbot?

If you are a single parent family you need to be working and if you are in a two parent family you need both to be working.

Contact Aberavon ICC on 01639 897841