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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

Missio World- Reducing, Reusing, Recycling

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Year 2 Pupils living out our Mission Statement to ‘Make Christ and his values known to all and be of service to society’. Children we have reflected on Pope Francis’ call in Laudato Si to look after our God given world walking in the footsteps of Jesus to help others.

Year 2 Missio World

Date: 12th Jan 2023

Present: 22 year 2 pupils

Agenda:

  1. Reusing and Recycling
  2. Reducing

We talked about how we have been reflecting on the Catholic Virtues of attentive and Discerning, through our actions in school and in our deeds through encouraging others to reflect on how we can live out, put into action being attentive to Jesus’ word and to be discerning, to make right choices.

Starting with us, children discussed how we can make a difference in school.

Action:

Monitors were selected to switch of light and switch off light switches.

Ethically informed- Looking after our world Pope Francis’ message- Laudato Si
Reducing waste- waterSwitching off lightsRecycling- Coats Uniform shoes
Action Monitors until Feb 23Action Monitors until Feb 23Action: Ms B to write to parents to ask for good quality, clean coats, uniform and shoes.

We also thought about how this fits in with our right to say what we think should happen (Article 12) and with recycling coats, uniform and shoes, we would be able to grow up to be healthy (Article 6).

School Council: Rights of the Child

Autumn:Spring  Summer
Article 29: Your right to become the best that you can be.  Article 12: Your right to say what you think should happen and be listened to.Article 15: Your right to meet with friends and join groups and clubs.
Article 6: You have the right to life and to grow up to be healthy.Article 28: Your right to learn and to go to school.  Article 19: You should not be harmed and should be looked after and kept safe.

Fresh eyes – looking again at our Mission Statement

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Missio Prayer Meeting

Date: 9.1.2023

Present: Joseph, Ophelia, Sophia, Tommy, Nori, Skyler, Ms Beaumont

Agenda: Year 2 Missio Prayer Ambassadors met with Ms Beaumont to think about our mission statement.

We discussed how we could show these in action. Pupils thought about the first 2 child friendly aims:

  1. To love God and be the very best that we can be.
  2. Celebrate through prayer and worship our love of God.

Missio prayer pupils decided to take photographs in school to drop into Pic-collage and share with all classes. These can shared and be discussed and displayed in all classes.

Next step:

Take photos

Drop into app

Discuss next 3 Mission Statement aims:

Love another

Walk in the footsteps of Jesus to help others

Work together to make our school the best school it can be.

Date of Next Meeting:

12.01.2023