Happy Birthday Mrs Turner
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.
Saint Joseph’s Catholic Infant School October the month of the Rosary
Dear Parents/Carers,
We are getting there! Children are flourishing and finding a new pattern to school life. Great news in that half term holiday will be for ONE week only!
Thanks for working with us
Rosary Challenge: This half term holiday please teach your child the Hail Mary. Take a look at the Rosary page on our website.
MAKE: A prayer paper chain of people you would like to pray for. Remember to pray for PEACE and an end to COVID. Post your chains on SEE Saw for your classmates to see.
Challenges Ahead
Our main aim is to keep children safe whilst educating them spiritually, academically and particularly this term we will be supporting children’s wellbeing. Thanks for working with us on so many levels. Staggered start and finish is working effectively.
Beakfast Club: We are taking a cautious approach to the reintroduction of Breakfast Club and to using the school Dining hall for lunchtime. No Breakfast Club will run yet. This will allow children to remain in Class bubbles. We will closely monitor developments.
COVID-19 Prevention: Should your child become unwell and have any one of the COVID-19 symptoms:
- High temperature
- New, persistent cough
- Loss of taste and/or smell
They should NOT attend school. They should remain at home and self-isolate and arrange a COVID-19 test.
Half Term Reading Challenge!
Please pick up a book and read daily with your child. It is not surprising children have forgotten phonics and blends. Please work daily on reading with and reading to your Child.
Let’s Get Active! Mrs O’Leary & Mrs B
Can you Walk / ride a kilometre a day?
If you are already at a kilometre try pushing for 2km? Share your photos on See Saw
Positive Covid Test result for child
Text:Teacher2Parent
Please put URGENT as the first word,
‘Please contact me’ in the text should your child have a positive test
Protect Trace and Track:
It is vitally important that should you or any of your household test positive to COVID-19 that you inform school as a matter of urgency.
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
Catholic Virtues -How can we be attentive and discerning?
Walking in Jesus’ footsteps.
Some of our children called into Greggs during the Christmas holiday and bought a Gift Card which they then gave to a homeless person.
They had listened to what Jesus was asking us to do, they had been attentive and then gone forth and acted upon it. They lived out the word of God.
Our Catholic Virtues in Saint Joseph’s Infant School
What is a Virtue?
It’s those habits of mind and action which genuinely serve the common good….Schools are the places where such virtue is generated or where it is neglected.”
Heythrop Conference Day ‘Education and Young People’ 2009