Journal Plays

Performing a  journal play during reading today.

The Honey Bee

This term we will be doing some inquiry learning around bees and their importance in the food chain. We will look at the physiology and behaviour of bees plus colony organisation and we will also be leanring about pollination and the honey making process, uses for honey and colony collapse disorder and it's implications. Some key vocabulary is pollination, larvae, pupae, hibernation, monoculture, colonisation and supersede.

St Josephs Has Got Talent!

Welcome Back for Term 3!

Hi Everyone, I hope you all had a fantastic break with the family.

Please see the individual pages for information on some of the learning that we'll be doing this term and remember to keep up with reading, spelling and maths practice at home.

Musical Time!

Hi everyone. The children will be very busy preparing for the school musical this week and they will be performing on Thursday at 1pm and again at 6pm. I hope all of you will be there to support the children and the school.

Costume Requirements: Black trousers, shoes and long sleeve black top. If any one has any small glow sticks that you could donate, that would be appreciated.

Regards

Paul

World Cup Reading

We'll continue with our reading theme of the World Cup this week. Some additional vocabulary to learn is controversial, opposition, substitute, allowance, equaliser. 

Check out some of our amazing robot masks!

Writing- The Tiny Crusader

This Weeks Reading

This week we will be reading about the 2014 Football World Cup. We'll look at related vocabulary and we'll be doing lots of close reading on football articles. Some key vocabulary to learn this week is... accidentally, referee, elimination, penalty, international, qualifying, competing- Learn what these words mean and learn to spell them.

Class Song-I Am Not a Robot

Art-Mask Making

Some of the masks that the children made during art of Fridays. We will be exploring mask making techniques and creating masks for the school musical as well as learning about masks in cultures around the world.

Maths-Geometry Strand

We have started the term with a focus on geometry. Over the last couple of weeks we've explored symmetry, reflection and rotation, as well as tessellations, 3D and 2D shapes and making nets. This week will be our last on geometry and we will be looking at plotting co-ordinates.

Halfwolf

Halfwolf the vicious hound circled his prey. Vicious fangs shone in the moonlight as red devilish eyes hypnotised it's prey, a huge hare. Halfwolf pounced and unforgivingly shredded the skin and ripped the head apart , his meal was ready ! Out of the shadows walked Satanta ! Halfwolf pounced , Satanta  jumped and stabbed the spear into Halfwolfs merciless heart ! Halfwolf lay dead. He had made his last move !

By Wills

Happy Mothers Day!

To all the mothers out there, 'Happy Mothers Day!' We hope you have a fantastic day being spoilt rotten by your lovely children... They worked very hard on these letters and cards, we hope you like them :)

Term 2 Focus

Welcome back to the start of Term 2! This week and for the rest of the term our inquiry will be largely a social studies theme about tribal systems in history and the present day. In maths this week we are learning about symmetry and tessellations in tribal art and patterns as part of our geometry unit.

In reading and writing we will be exploring the ancient Celtic and Roman cultures and writing our own narratives based on myth and legend.