St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Blackhall
Coast Road, Blackhall Colliery, Hartlepool TS27 4HE
Today, 28th November 2021, marks the First Sunday of Advent. Today the first purple candle was lit on the Advent Wreath at Mass. Below you will find an online Advent Calendar from Cafod, which has many useful links. There is also a link to some Advent resources that you can use at home as a family. We hope that you find these resources useful as we journey together towards Christmas.
CAFOD Primary advent calendar 2021
During Anti-Bullying week, Children were led in a liturgical prayer by Class 1 where they listened to the importance of being kind and helpful towards others. Children took part in various different activities and all thought of one kind word to describe one another.
To mark Remembrance Day 2021 we have taken part in lots of lessons and activities. We watched a film called ‘We will Remember them’ about how and why we remember some of the soldiers from our local regiment, the Durham Light Infantry, who fought in conflicts through history but did not return home.
The children looked at a selection of primary and secondary sources and used them to find out about local soldiers.
We gathered together for liturgical prayer, beautifully led by Class 4.
We looked at pictures of the Cenotaph in London and used it as inspiration for our own.
Using a variety of different media we made poppies.
After looking at the resources it inspired the children to create pieces of artwork and poems to say thank you to the soldiers who fought for our freedom. They even got to try on some of the kit that the Royal Navy wear today.
Year 3 and 4 used the evidence they were given to find out about each of the different soldiers.
Georgia O’Keeffe was an artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers. Class 4 used this as an inspiration for their own piece of art work.
Children in year 5&6 have worked with Paul from Clennell Education Solutions to learn more about ways to stay safe online. Children were fantastic in discussing the potential risks and identifying ways to reduce these risks.
Please follow this link from Clennell to a video for more information.
You can also read our Apps for Children Parent leaflet to find out more information on suitability of apps and tips for supporting your children to use technology safely.
Further information can also be found here Parents Online Safety Information
A BIG well done to the winners from each class of our Macmillan Coffee morning raffle.
Please see below to find out about enrolling your child for September 2022.
Children across school participated in Macmillan Coffee Morning to raise funds for Macmillan cancer support. All children took home a cake and tea/coffee as well as a raffle ticket for the chance to win a prize.
Lunchtime Supervisory Assistant required ASAP, Please follow links below for more information. Closing date for applications is Monday 13th September 2021 at 12.00 noon.
Vacancy – Lunchtime Supervisory Assistant
Lunchtime Supervisory Assistant – Job Description
Please take a look at some of these fantastic upcoming events over the Summer Holidays…
The Summer Reading Challenge combines FREE access to books with fun, creative activities during the summer holidays. Throughout the Challenge, library staff and young volunteers support the children, helping them to discover new authors and illustrators and to explore a wide range of different types of books and ways of reading,
How the Challenge works
You can find additional information and free resources to support children’s reading for pleasure in the Summer Reading Challenge School Zone: wildworldheroes.org.uk/school-zone-src
We’ve been approached by some of our partners, they’ve been allocated some funding to support children, young people and families over school holidays with free holiday activities / programs / projects, all of these projects will run across County Durham, and will provide food/meals for those that take part. It is a little bit of a spin on the previous, much smaller scale ‘holiday hunger’ projects that have been ran in previous years, but offers much more opportunity for development etc.
We’ve been asked to consult with children and young people to ensure that the money is being spent in the right way, offering the right activities, food etc. as a result, we’re carrying out an online consultation to find out what children and young people want.
Please see the link below we would greatly appreciate if you would encourage your children and young people to complete the survey, the money is there to be spent on them.
This consultation will close Mid May so we can provide a report of findings with partners.
Thank you!
DYC Members.
