Missio Saint Joseph’s e-Christmas Card Competition
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!!!
Care for our common home – Nadolig Llawen Merry Christmas
Pope Francis-Care for our common home: Help save our environment this Christmas
Missio St Joseph’s have been thinking about caring for creation, which is as old as Genesis, as clear as the Sermon on the Mount.
Climate change is the greatest threat to life our Earth has ever seen. We have cut down the earth’s natural forests.
We have decided to be more eco- friendly this year by sending just one Christmas wish to friends and staff in school.
Please fill in the Star above with your Christmas prayer and messages, cut out, and return to School, with a donation. Missio St Joseph’s will display the in the Hall.
Many thanks,
Missio Saint Joseph’s: Edie, Ava May, Alicia, Jude, Mia, Emilia and Ava
Living Wisely, Thinking Deeply, Loving Generously. Meet our Missio Prayer Leaders
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”
Our St Joseph’s Pupil Profile: Our Values and Virtues
Our Pupil Profile: Our Values and Virtues
As a Catholic School in the Diocese of Menevia, we have embraced the Catholic Schools’ Pupil Profile, which teaches the children a set of eight pairs of virtues to be internalised and cultivated –
enabling them to grow in wholeness as fully rounded individuals in the image of God.
The pairs of virtues are:
- Grateful and generous
- Attentive and discerning
- Compassionate and loving
- Faith-filled and hopeful
- Eloquent and truthful
- Learned and wise
- Curious and active
- Intentional and prophetic
At St Joseph’s Infant School, the children are growing to be:
Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, now and in the future.
Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.
Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.
Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.
Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relations between people, and the world.
Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.
Curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better
Intentional in the way they live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience and prophetic in the example they set to others.
Each half Term we explore ways in which we can develop in our virtues and values.
Port Talbot to Peru- Why should we get fitter? Why should we raise money for our linked mission in Peru?
How can we be the hands and feet of Jesus?
How can we be Compassionate and Loving?
Curious and active?
Saint Joseph’s Sponsored Strava challenge
We as a school and parish community are aiming to raise money for the plight of Bishop Giovanni. Our Missio group have decided that we are going to do our best to walk or run as many miles in May as possible! Our astronomical end goal is 5929 miles! The distance between Port Talbot and Peru.
This challenge is all about exercising with family whilst raising money for such an important cause. Your whole family can take part and help you to reach your sponsorship goals.
Be an Action Researcher to find out what our money will go towards?
What differences will it make to the people of Prelatura Santiago Apostol de Huancane?
Please follow the instructions below to take part.
- Sign up to Strava app.
- Use ‘explore’ and search for ‘Saint Joseph’s Infants’ in ‘Clubs’. Request to join!
- Once you have joined our club, every walk or run will be added to our mileage and our leader board. We will be tallying up the miles at the end of each week.
- *Important* every time you Record a walk or run and ‘choose a sport’, please choose ‘Run’ EVEN if you are walking. This will allow your activity to be added to our mileage leader board.
- Please involve your whole family! Brothers, Sisters, Aunt’s, Uncle’s, Grandparents! The more family members involved, the better.
Food Bank and Harvest Celebrations
Curious and Active- Catholic Pupil Profile
Children have been invited to dress in harvest colours or their favourite dressing up costume to celebrate Harvest. Please support our local community of Port Talbot. Tomorrow we will collect for the Port Talbot Food Bank, we will be walking in Jesus’ footsteps, and living out his message. Help us to role model how we can give back something to those in need and like Pope Francis suggests develop the habit of taking care of ourselves and others. Send in your FOOD BANK DONATIONS tomorrow Friday 23rd October. We will of course leave the items 72 hours during half term before we handle them.
In school we have been helping our children to be curious about everything: active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better.
This advice comes from the Trussell Trust
What’s in a food parcel?
Food banks provide a minimum of three-days’ nutritionally balanced, non-perishable tinned and dried foods that have been donated people in the local community
We’ve worked with nutritionists to develop a food parcel that contains sufficient nutrition for adults and children, for at least three days of healthy, balanced meals for individuals and families.
A typical food parcel includes:
- Cereal
- Soup
- Pasta
- Rice
- Tinned tomatoes/ pasta sauce
- Lentils, beans and pulses
- Tinned meat
- Tinned vegetables
- Tea/coffee
- Tinned fruit
- Biscuits
- UHT milk
- Fruit juice
Many food banks also provide essential non-food items such as toiletries and hygiene products.
If you’re organising a collection for your local food bank, please check with them first to see which items they are currently in need of.
A million children in praying the Rosary
In every class we will be thinking about praying for peace and the end of COVID-19. Please fill in your special intentions on the template that will come home on Friday.
Last Sunday Pope Francis invited children to participate together in a very special initiative. A Catholic charity hopes to bring together a million children worldwide to pray the rosary this Sunday.
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is seeking to unite the children in praying for peace and the end of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than a million people around the world.
Please could you take some time with your child the prayers that make up the Rosary. It has been a long Summer so maybe start with the first part of the Hail Mary.
Once you have got to grips with the Hail Mary, be resilient and move on to The Our Father.
Missio in Action
Huge thanks to Year 2 children who braved the weather to clean and tidy the prayer area this afternoon.
| 2 | Jesuit values:
Compassionate Praying for others |
Jesuit
Values: Loving Prayer Partners |
Reducing waste- water | Switching off lights | Recycling | Cutting down on food waste/Healthy foods | Loving our world-litter | Beach comb |
School Council: Rights of the Child
| Autumn: | Spring
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Summer |
| Article 29:
Your right to become the best that you can be.
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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.
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Article 19:
You should not be harmed and should be looked after and kept safe. |
| EVENTS*Brighten Up CAFOD/Missio/NSPCC
Christmas Crafts-Peru
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Silver Egg,
World Book Day, Welsh Dimension/ 4 Key Purposes |
Day of Many Colours
Multi -cultural weeks |
Agenda:
Prayer Buddies:
- Delphine, Josh, Jonny, Frankie, Evie, Aarika to lead and organise prayer buddies in school (Week beginning 24th Feb 2020).
Prayer Garden:
Jet Wash Prayer Area and use buckets from car wash.
Children to investigate whether we would need a roof and come back with ideas after Half Term
What should we do to improve the look of the Prayer Area?
Paint Images of
- Baby Jesus
- May and Joseph
- Angel
- Creation
- Noah’s Ark
- Jesus calming the storm
- The good Samaritan
- Ask Mr Coughlin to repair pole wall and add 3 crosses if possible.
We should include our Catholic Virtues:
Love and Compassion
Discerning and Listening
Hopeful and Faithfilled
Truthful – Learned
Grateful and Giving
Cayden suggested we should bring in the 4Rs?
Resilience –Do your best and God will do the rest
Loyalty?
Ella suggests fake grass on pebble area
Nest step to consider:
- Collect Flags for around the world/ Bunting (Tibet).
- Research Hanging display
- Do we want a structure?
- Collective Worship/ Prayer Resources