Please click the link below for December’s Parent Newsletter
www.tentenresources.co.uk/prayers-for-home/parent-newsletter/
Easter Passion Play – 2022
The children and staff in Year 2 have been working extremely hard over the past month to put together our Easter Service. Traditionally this takes place in our Parish and we look forward to when this can resume in the future.
Click the link below to watch our performance, with support from Reception and Year 1 children. We hope you enjoy!
Leave a comment below!
Walk for Peace! Walk for Olivia!
We hope you can join us in supporting two very important causes this April.
The aim is to walk the coastal path of Wales – 1680 miles collectively!
Please sign up to our Strava Challenge – Instructions are detailed below.
Any questions, please comment at the bottom of this post.
To find out more about Olivia Finches Fight, please click on the link below!
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/olivia-finch-fight?utm_term=en8gyGyKe
To sign up to our Strava club, please click the link below!
https://www.strava.com/clubs/saintjosephsinfants
Challenge begins Friday April 1st. Good luck!
App and Gaming Age of Consent
Here are some informative links that explain the content of various games/apps that your child may be playing. More importantly – the age of consent.
TikTok age of consent is 13+
See this link from Common Sense Media with reviews from children and parents about its content.
Fortnite PEGI rating 12+
Read Common Sense Media’s full review of Fortnite, and learn more about how it works. Then find answers below to parents’ most frequently asked questions about the game and how to use it safely
Call of Duty PEGI Rating 18+
Please be aware what children may be seeing/exposed to when older siblings or parents are playing this game.
Players use a variety of guns, knives, and explosives to kill other humans, resulting in death, gore, and bloodshed
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews/call-of-duty-infinite-warfare
Recommended 8+
Poppy Playtime is a unique first-person horror adventure game. Likewise, there are many elements in the game that are purposefully designed to creep players out. With any game release that is in the horror genre, adults, as well as parents, are always concerned about age restrictive content.
Tiny Toes Ballet in the Nursery
We have been very lucky to enjoy sessions with Eleanor from Tiny Toes Ballet!
Here are some pictures from our sessions!
Photography sessions with Jack Moyse!
Year 2 have been lucky enough to enjoy photography sessions with expert, local Mumbles photographer Mr Jack Moyse!
We began by taking portrait images of each other using a camera on a tripod and then explored using healthy and unhealthy foods for some still-life shots!
We enjoyed learning about and using the different equipment that Jack had brought.
We look forward to working with Jack regularly and creating a Cynefin project during after school clubs!
Diolch Mr Moyse!
Tiny Toes Ballet
We are very excited and proud to be part of Neath Port Talbot Council Child Development Funding Programme of Activities.
NPT Council has created this programme to bring opportunities to children under 5 and their families who have been negatively impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic. And we at Tiny Toes Ballet are so very happy to be offering free sessions throughout March to those children from 6 months to 5 years in Port Talbot, Alltwen, Skewen and Longford.
We hope to bring the fun and magic of tiny toes ballet along with the social interaction of our classes for the children and parents, that have lacked just that throughout the pandemic.
Bookings are open NOW for our March session in the NPT district.
St. David’s Day 2022 – Y2 Mass Celebration
Year 2 celebrated a wonderful St. David’s Day Mass on Tuesday with Father Andrzej.
It was a special Mass where were able to take part by reading the Bidding Prayers.
We look forward to returning to Mass in Church in the future! We are very grateful that Father Andrzej brought the Mass to us in our classroom. What a special celebration to mark the Feast of Saint David.
Books
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week (7-13 February 2022).
Here are a recommended list of books to explore with your child if they are experience any worries or anxieties.
Wherever Jenny goes, her worries follow her — in a big blue bag. They are there when she goes swimming, when she is watching TV, and even when she is in the toilet. Jenny decides they will have to go. But who can help her? A great book to use with anxious children as it helps sort worries through and make them seem more manageable. It emphasizes that we all have worries and what to do about them.
Little Bear is a worrier. He worries about everything! But with Mama Bear’s help, he soon learns his worries are not so big after all.
Through this engaging and beautifully illustrated story, children will learn that everyday worries and fears can be overcome. It just takes a willingness to share with a helpful listener, and an understanding that making mistakes is how we learn.
Also included are helpful Discussion Questions for parents, caregivers and educators, and extra hints to help children manage anxiety.
A fantastic book to help children understand what actually happens in their brain when they experience anxiety. Kids can do amazing things with the right information. Understanding why anxiety feels the way it does, and where the physical symptoms come from, is a powerful step in turning anxiety around. This book is an amazing resource for kids 5 years and above who feel anxious and overwhelmed by those feelings.