Dear Parents and Carers,

A reminder that the last day of term is next Wednesday (24^th October).

Pupil Premium - Free School Meals

The Government is giving money to schools to help children from lower income families do their very best. This funding is called a ‘Pupil Premium’. For every child registered at St Joseph’s, the school gets £619.00 this year. This is expected to significantly increase next year.

With this money we could organise more individual tuition, increase Teaching Assistant support and improve learning opportunities in lots of other ways. If you are registered for Free School Meals you could also get support for school trips and have help with after school clubs.

If you think you might be entitled to free school meals, please contact the school office.

Individual Photographs

The deadline for returning proof photographs is on Tuesday 23^rd October.

Year 1 Parents

We have added a year 1 Blog so you can access the weekly home learning question with ideas of how to answer them.  Any other useful information will also be posted here. See the link on the left hand side of the main Blog.

Bonfire Night Menu

The school menu for Monday 5^th November to celebrate Bonfire Night is – Oven Baked Sasuages or Cheese and Tomato Pinwheel, with Baked Beans, Peas and Sweetcorn or Seasonal Mixed Salad, Freshly Baked Bread, Oven Baked Mixed Potato Wedges or Fiery Tomato Pasta.  For dessert it’s Catherine wheel with Chocolate Sauce, Treacle Flapjack or Seasonal Fruit Platter.

Camp Meeting

A meeting is planned for all parents on Monday 22^nd October at 3.45pm. Important information will be shared so we would like all parents and carers of children going on camp to attend.

Altar Servers

There is a registration process if any of your children are interested in becoming altar servers (or continuing to serve).  If you require any further information or details please contact Sarah Cook on 0117 9490883 or Felicity Horton on 01179679185

Purple Mash

Purple Mash is a great fun and creative online learning resource which is available to all children at St Joseph’s. To access this great website visit www.purplemash.com, enter user as pupil@c46524 and the password is fig3.

St Joseph’s Brownie Pack

Hello, my name is Sarah Hendy and I am the Guider-in-Charge of St Joseph’s Brownie Pack.  Along with 3 other Guiders/Helpers we meet every Monday in term-time and provide a variety of activities for girls of Brownie age to enjoy within the Brownie Programme, including badge work, craft and outings and camps.  Our numbers are very low at present and we are looking for girls of Brownie age (7-11 years old) to join us.  We would also like to include girls of Rainbow age (5 to 7 years old) and run as a joint Rainbow and Brownie Pack.

If you would like to join our Pack, please telephone Sarah on 0117 9517615 or call in on a Monday evening 6.15-7.45pm

Attendance

Well done to Miss Phillips and Mrs Patton’s class with 99% attendance last week, they will get a special non uniform day as a reward.  Also well done to Mrs Rollings’, Mrs Ford’s and Mrs Joseph’s classes with 97% attendance.

Celebration Assembly

There will be a celebration assembly on Monday 8^th October at 9.15am where the following children will receive their headteachers award: Rochelle Christian, Sydney Kay Haberfield, Melvin Mathew, Bernadette Reilly and  Jaimie Vadhyanath.

These children will receive Superstars Sports Awards:  Paige Halliday, Jerin Mathew, Patrycia Plewa, Taychon Graham, Lewis Hodder, Godwin Sebastian, Anna Raju, Samuel Masenyama, Edwin Sebastian, Saul Ayton, Will Scammell and Liam Rice.

Dates for Diaries

Monday 22^nd October                    -                       Year 5/6 camp meeting

Wednesday 24^th October              -                       End of Term 1
Monday 19^th November                 -                       INSET day – reading focus (school closed)
Monday 10^th December                -                       INSET day – maths focus (school closed)
Friday 8^th February                           -                       INSET day – assessment focus (school closed)
Monday 4^th-8^th February                 -                       Deanfield Studies Centre visit for Year 5 and 6

 

Best wishes,

Matt Condon, Headteacher