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Pupil Voice: Which charity will be be supporting in the Spring Term?

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Missio Council have been tasked with organising a vote to decide which charity we should support in the Spring Term. Children had one vote each. Every child voted. Missio Council had selected 4 very worthwhile charities:

  1. CAFOD – Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
  2. Missions in Peru – we have a personal connection with Bishop Giovanni (Monsignor Joseph’s brother)
  3. Ty Hafen – a children’s hospice
  4. Charity supporting Epidermolysis bullosa ( Butterfly Skin), Epidermolysis bullosa is a rare skin condition. People born with this condition are often called “butterfly children” because their skin is as delicate as a butterfly’s wings.
    Home – DEBRA UK

    Watch this space for results!







    Epidermolysis bullosa

Book Swap Friday 24th January – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Message from Missio School Council:

Please send books of an excellent quality into school by Thursday 23rd January.

Missio Council will collect them. If everyone sends at least one book into school, every child will have the opportunity to choose a new book on Friday 24th, to take home and read. Age range 4-8 years.

Laudato Si- Care for our common home. God’s gift to us.

Missio Pupil Council are working on projects in school to Reduce, Recycle, Reuse.

Small changes can make a difference.

Meet our new child elected Missio Council

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After a whole school assembly on a letter from Pope Francis Missio have been thinking about how we can look after our common home. How we can listen to the cry of the earth, by reducing, reusing, recycling.

Missio Book Swap:

Our first project focuses on books, we will reduce and reuse by recycling books. Missio Book Swap!

Year 2 will be sharing more information with parents.

Key information:

Missio have planned a book swap for Friday 24th January.

What do we need?

Books in excellent condition, age range 3-8.

More Library Visits:

Instead of buying new books, let’s reuse!

Missio have also decided that we should use our local library more often. They have asked there teachers to book us in at Port Talbot library.

Missio discussed which charities to support in the Spring term. Classes will be asked to vote. Missio members will conduct the vote.

  1. CAFOD
  2. MISSION Club
  3. Ty Hafen

Thanks for your help with our pupil voice!

Missio -Our Catholic Children’s Council

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What is Missio in St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School?

We are the hands, the feet and the voice of Christ on earth, in our school, our homes and in the world.

  1. Missio is run by children.

2. It is our school Council.

3.Three children are elected in each class. Their job is to make decisions and feed information and ideas back to their classmates.

Our School Missio Council 2024-5:

Year Two pupils help with the day to day running of our Missio work.

Autumn Update:

Missio Voice:

School

Missio Council voted to create for a memorial for David Ejimofor.

After much discussion Missio council decided to buy a bench which would be put in the front school yard. They also voted which bench to buy. Monsignor Joseph kindly visited school and blessed the bench (November 2024). A beautiful prayer service marked this very special occasion. David and Mrs Maria Ejimofor mother of David and her family will always have a place in our prayers.

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal 

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Christmas Shoe Box Appeal 

Parents/Guardians,  

After the success of last year, we have decided to take part in the Christmas Shoe Box Appeal again this year. We understand that creating a shoe box filled with items could work out quite expensive, so we are giving you two options. 

Option 1: If you would like to create a completed shoe box then please follow the instructions overleaf and secure the checklist to the top of the box lid.  

Option 2: Alternatively, you can donate just one or two individual items listed overleaf that can contribute to making a complete box. 

Shoeboxes will be donated via Mrs Owen’s Parish, St. Joseph’s Neath and need to be sent in by Monday 21th October. They are going to be distributed to the poorest communities in Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine amongst others.  

Also, if you have any spare, empty shoeboxes then please send them into school! 

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for your support,  

Mrs Owen

Filler Ideas: Filler Ideas for Blythswood Care Shoe Box Appeal

Leaflet: https://blythswood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Blythswood-Shoe-Box-Appeal-Leaflet-2024-1.pdf

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Ground Force Day – Our School Learning Environment

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Going Green! Ground Force Day!

Our Missio group have carried out a school walk to think about how we can improve our learning environment.

On Tuesday 18th June we would like to invite all children to wear old clothes, bring gardening gloves and a scented plant such as lavender or rosemary.

After a garden tidy up, flowerbed weed, we will be planting the plants around the school. We will be caring for our school environment. If you have any spare plant pots or plants that would enhance our learning areas, please contact Ms Beaumont. If you have a few spare hours on Tuesday and could help out, please contact Ms Beaumont. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

New guidance from Curriculum for Wales on Effective environment highlight exploration of the environment is a key driver for development of a sense of belonging and an appreciation of the world around them.

Important Information for Tuesday 18th June.

Children should

  • Wear old clothes
  • Bring a scented plant eg. lavender? Please make sure that plants do not have thorns and are safe for children to be around.
  • Bring gardening gloves and a trowel
  • Do you have plant pots etc that we might reuse?

Could you spare an hour to help? If so contact Ms Beaumont

Many thanks, Ms Beaumont

Family Fast Day October 6th 2023

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Charity begins at home…

To celebrate Family Fast Day, children are invited to wear own clothes and bring in tinned food and toiletries for local Food Bank on Friday 6th October.

Family Fast Day

Family Fast Day is on Friday 6 October. 

If you would like to send in a donation you are very welcome.

Come together as a parish, so that families like Meera’s can get help from doctors and other local experts when they need it most. 

Dr Nasha’s mobile medical clinic gets life-saving help to where it’s needed most, fast – so when her team arrived in Meera’s village after it had been destroyed by flooding, she rushed to the clinic to get her children the treatment they needed.

Thank you for all your support!

Join us in praying this Harvest as we celebrate God’s gifts and seek to respond with gratitude and generosity.

Harvest prayer 2023: Seeds of hope

Generous God, we thank you
for the gifts you have given
for all people to share.
We plant seeds of hope
and nurture them as we seek
a harvest of plenty for all.

Forgive us for the times these seeds
fail to take root in our hearts.
We grieve when homes and crops
are washed away by floods,
when lives are uprooted by disaster,
or trampled by fear and greed.

Living God, you lead us
to a new way of being.
Move us to help one another
in our times of need,
to care for the earth and
to love one another,
sharing your harvest with all.

Amen.

Catherine Gorman/CAFOD