Friday, 13 February 2015

Dear Parents/Carers,

It’s been great being back at St Joseph’s over the last couple of days. Everybody is doing better than ever in my absence. Year 6 have had a great time on camp:

Rags 2 Riches

Your child will be bringing home a ‘Rags2Riches4School’ collection bag as we will be hosting a fundraising event in association with Rags2Riches4Schools.  From baby wear to teenage hand-me-downs to Granddad’s shoes, all items of clothing and accessories are welcome.  Bags, hats, belts, scarves and gloves all count – pretty much anything wearable.  All we ask is for them to be clean and in good condition and for the shoes to be tied together.  Unfortunately pillows and duvets are not accepted this time. 

Please bring your kind donations to the school on Monday 2nd March.  All proceeds will go to St James’ Priory in Bristol. Staff and Governors recently visited St. James’ and were overwhelmed by the incredible work the volunteers do to support vulnerable adults in our city.

Bristol Schools Swimming Competition
On Tuesday 10th March Bristol Schools’ Swimming Association is holding a swimming competition for all primary schools across Bristol.  We would like to give children from St Joseph’s an opportunity to compete in this competition.  Children can compete individually in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle and also in a relay team event.  The guide times that have been sent from Bristol Schools’ Swimming Association for 25m vary from 28 secs-31 secs and from 55 secs-63 secs for 50m.  If your children swim competitively outside of school or can swim these distances within a similar time to those times suggested above and would be interested in participating in the competition please ask them to come and speak to Mrs Darvill asap (year 3 class teacher).  Children must also be available on Saturday 25th April from 1-3.30pm as this is when the final is scheduled to take place.
E-Safety week is now E-Safety Fortnight!

E-safety is fast becoming an important part of the curriculum and we decided that one week just wasn’t enough! During E-safety fortnight the following is taking place:

·         Working in class on E-Safety issues.
·         On Monday 23rd February, the whole school will be listening to a talk from the police. Year 6 will follow this with a class discussion.
·         On Tuesday 3rd March, KS2 will participate in class workshops with Unique Voice, working on issues such as digital footprint, cyber-bulling, privacy and sharing.
·         On Tuesday 3rd March, parents will be invited into school in the afternoon to watch class presentations following their E-safety workshops
·         On Thursday 5th March, EYFS and KS1 will watch an interactive performance by Unique Voice called ‘Wendy and the Worldwide Web’.

If you wish to find out more about Unique Voice and their workshops, please visit their very accessible website: www.uniquevoice.org

Celebration Assembly

There will be no Celebration Assembly on Monday 23rd February.

Dates for Diaries

Friday 13th February                                                 -           End of Term 3
Wednesday 18th February                          -           Ash Wednesday
Monday 23rd February                                -           Start of Term 4
Monday 23rd February                               -           E-Safety week 2015
Wednesday 25th February                          -           Y6 Lifeskills visit
Thursday 26th February                                -           Full Governing Body meeting  
Friday 27th February                                     -           Lent Mass in hall (Y5 readers)
Sunday 8th March                                        -           Mass for Parish’s 90th anniversary
Wednesday 11th March                              -           Year 6 visit to Leigh Woods
Friday 13th March                                         -           Year 2 Mother’s day assembly
Wednesday 18th March                              -           Year 6 topic presentation
Thursday 19th March                                                -           St Joseph’s Day Mass in hall (Y4 readers – tea/coffee/tours for parishioners afterwards)
Friday 20th March                                         -           Tennis competition – age TBC
Friday 27th March                                         -           Mass for Holy Week in church (Y3 readers)
Friday 27th March                                         -           Local cluster choir festival at St Joseph’s
Friday 27th March                                         -           End of Term 4
Sunday 29th March                                      -           Palm Sunday
Sunday 5th March                                        -           Easter Sunday
Monday 13th April                                        -           Start of Term 5 
Sunday 28th June                                         -           First Holy Communion in Church
Friday 17th July                                              -           End of school year

Yours sincerely,


Matt Condon,

Headteacher

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