Missio Saint joseph’s invited every child in school to design a e-Christmas card to be shared with our parishes and on our school web site.
Our Missio group met with Ms Beaumont to select one winner and 4 runners up. It was a very difficult job to select just one winner. Well done to everyone for their hard work.
Congratulations to Oliver, Ivy, Charlotte and Isla!!!
Missio Groups are now up and running in Year 2. Most pupils have chosen to be part of 4 groups:
| Missio
St Joseph’s |
Missio Prayer Partners | Missio Prayer
Leaders |
Missio World |
| 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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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.
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?’
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
Breathe in for a count of 4, and say “Live wisely”
Breathe out for a count of 4, and say “Love generously”
Fantastic News!
Language and Play is back up and running!
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.
