Jingle all the way!
Huge thanks to our wonderful Parent Teacher Association and staff who worked so hard to pull off a fantastic family movie night. Thanks also to Father Andrzej and Margam Parishioners for allowing us to use their recently refurbished hall. Pjs and sleeping bags were non negotiable!
A real team effort, thanks also to those who helped clean up at the end of the evening.
Huge thanks to all who contributed to our Harvest Food Bank Appeal and to Jack and his parents help in transporting the goods to the food bank. We have been assured that this food is urgently needed and will go back into our own community of Port Talbot.
Please join your child next week in a parent(or grandparent) and child session.
Details below:
What’s going On
Working together – one family in Christ
Loving and Compassionate. Huge thanks to all who sent in one of 48 Shoe boxes that have now been collected from school. Thanks also to everyone who sent in food for the Food Banks Harvest Appeal. PTA and children are going to help distribute the food.
Parents and teachers met today to plan activities for the coming months.
Harvest Pumpkin Carving: Come along and have some fun carving and decorating pumpkins. Please bring a small / medium pumpkin to carve with your child. Venue: Dining Hall Y2 Mrs Owen Monday 23rd October 9:10 am Y2/1 Mrs Turner Tuesday 24th October 9:10 am Y1/2 Mrs James Wednesday 25th October after assembly 9:40 am Reception Mrs Torrance Thursday 26th October 9:10 am Please bring: small pumpkin, carving set (eg. Poundland- plastic), stickers to decorate |
| Brighten Up Harvest Friday 27th October: Non school uniform day. Children are invited to wear harvest colours and bring £1 for School fund. |
Poppy full of Prayers: Come and join your child to design a poppy remembering those in our families who have died. Venue: Dining Hall Y2 Mrs Owen – Tuesday 7th November at 9:10 Y2/1 Mrs Turner – Wednesday 8th November at 9:10 Y1/2 Mrs James – Thursday 9th at 9:10 Reception Mrs Torrance – Friday 10th November at 9:10 Please bring copies of small photos that you might want to add to you poppy. Template will be provided. |
CAFOD Crazy Hair: Friday 17th November children are invite to wear CRAZY HAIR. Please send £1 which will be sent to CAFOD and money will be directed towards families fleeing conflict, support parents fighting climate change, and stand with communities overcoming poverty together. |
Polar Express Christmas Film Night Date to be confirmed, hopefully 6th or 7th December. Venue: Margam Parish Hall Children to dress in PJs and dressing gowns. Bell, pop corn and drink will be provided on purchase of Polar Express Ticket. |
Language and Play: If you know of any families with pre school age children, please invite them along. Could you help along with parent Rachael to help run sessions for pre school on Wednesday afternoon 1:15- 2:30? Please contact Ms Beaumont if you can help out. Start date: Wednesday 8th November |
Christmas Raffle – Heads Up Following the success of previous years, we would like to ask parents to send in small colourful gifts to make up several Christmas Hamper prizes. Mrs Owen’s Class: Red Mrs Turner’s Class: Gold Mrs James’ Class: Green Mrs Torrance’s Class: Gold Mrs Coughlin’s Class: Red |
Christmas Dinner Jumper Day 7th December. All are invited to wear Christmas jumpers and hats. Optional NSPCC donation |
Visit to Father Christmas to be confirmed, as is visit from Father Christmas to school. We are looking to buy an inexpensive selection box for all children to receive. |
Christmas Concert provisionally planned for Tuesday 12th and or Wednesday 13th December. Venue to be confirmed (Comprehensive School or St Joseph’s Church hall.) To be confirmed. |
The children have been discovering their senses. They have been focusing on their sense of smell. They carefully cut herbs in the sensory garden, chose what they favoured and made a room fragrance using a pestle and mortar.
We had a fantastic day yesterday at Llanelli Wetlands Centre! Our concept this term is Nature so the wetlands were a perfect fit for a day of exploration!
Children were very well behaved and the weather was very kind to us.
Here are a few pictures of our day of learning.
Nursery children exploring our locality in search for conkers.
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 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.
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
Dear parents and carers,
Have you any clean, good quality coats that you would like to recycle?
Answering Pope Francis’ call
Less is more… it is a way of living life to the full.
Please bring cleaned, coats week beginning Monday 25th September. Coats are to be taken free of charge. I would be grateful for help manning the Recycle Rail. Many thanks, Ms Beaumont
Our phonics scheme in St Joseph’s Infant School is Read Write Inc
Children begin their reading and writing journey with Read Write Inc. Phonics.
They learn their sounds and how to blend sounds to read.
Once children have completed the Read Write Inc Phonics scheme and are confident learners they move on to Read Write Inc, Language and Literacy, continuing to develop their comprehension and writing skills through a diverse range of fiction and non fiction texts.
As well as completing a range of Activities in Language and Literacy, children work on their spelling through a range of online and group spelling strategies.
Parents films
The films below show you how we teach children to read and write with Read Write Inc. Phonics.
The films will help you and your child practise together at home.
If you have a question for the Read Write Inc team, please get in touch with them via our Facebook or Twitter pages and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Supporting at home
With Read, Write Inc we are using pure sounds, (‘m’ not’ muh’, ’s’ not ‘suh’, etc) so that your child will be able to blend the sounds into words more easily.
These first sounds should all be stretched slightly. Try to avoid saying uh after each one: eg /mm/ not muh, /ss/ not suh, /ff/ not fuh.
m – mmmmmmountain (keep lips pressed together hard)
s – sssssnake (keep teeth together and hiss – unvoiced)
n – nnnnnnet (keep tongue behind teeth)
f – ffffflower (keep teeth on bottom lip and force air out sharply – unvoiced)
l – llllleg (keep pointed curled tongue behind teeth).
r – rrrrrrobot (say rrr as if you are growling)
v – vvvvvvulture (keep teeth on bottom lip and force air out gently)
z – zzzzzzig zzzzzag (keep teeth together and make a buzzing sound)
th – thhhhank you ( stick out tongue and breathe out sharply)
sh – shhhh (make a shhh noise as though you are telling somebody to be quiet!)
ng – thinnnnngg on a strinnnngg (curl your tongue at the back of your throat)
nk – I think I stink (make a piggy oink noise without the oi! nk nk nk)
These next sounds cannot be stretched. Make the sound as short as possible avoiding uh at the end of the sound:
t – (tick tongue behind the teeth – unvoiced)
p – (make distinctive p with lips – unvoiced)
k – (make sharp click at back of throat)
c – as above
h – (say h as you breathe sharply out – unvoiced)
ch – (make a short sneezing sound)
x – (say a sharp c and add s – unvoiced)
You will find it harder to avoid saying uh at the end of these sounds.
d – (tap tongue behind the teeth).
g – (make soft sound in throat).
b –(make a short, strong b with lips).
j – (push lips forward).
y – (keep edges of tongue against teeth).
w – (keep lips tightly pursed).
qu – (keep lips pursed as you say cw – unvoiced).
The short vowels should be kept short and sharp:
a: a-a-a (open mouth wide as if to take a bite of an apple).
e: e-e-e (release mouth slightly from a position).