A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to Mark People brought their little children to Jesus. They wanted Jesus to put his hand on the children and bless them. Jesus’ friends told the people off for annoying him, but when Jesus heard his friends, he was cross. He said to them, “Let the little children […]

This week, year 1 have been learning how to compare numbers using the language and symbols more than and less than.

Year one have been developing their ball skills this half term! Our ball control and confidence has already hugely improved!

St Joseph’s are introducing a very special new opportunity for ALL children to PLAY! Take a look at OPAL in action at another school within the UK. Please help us make this a reality at St Joseph’s by donating anything you feel would help!

Year 4 enjoyed tasting a delicious French breakfast, followed by learning some French songs. In the afternoon, they created moving dancers using their knowledge of mechanisms. Throughout the day, they shared their experiences of visiting or living in different countries, as well as sharing their different cultural experiences.

As part of St. Joseph’s Active Week, Year 6 led Year 4 in a house team rounders competition. Well done to everybody who took part! Another congratulations to St. Cuthbert’s house team who came 1st in the competition!

As part of St. Joseph’s Active Week, Year 4 went out onto the yard to practise their tennis ball control, and used different techniques such as forehand and backhand movements!

As part of St. Joseph’s Active Week, Year 4 and Year 5 developed their golf skills on the field. They started off with throwing the ball using accuracy and control before using the golf putters to hit the target in the least amount of times possible!

This week we have been doubling and halving numbers up to 20. We have used cubes to help us understanding halving.

The children of St Joseph’s have raised an amazing amount of money to develop their play time equipment. Take a look at some of the fun they’ve been having…

At St Joseph’s we have been thinking a lot about how we are all equal and valued at our school. We have discussed how we have man, many different nationalities and languages spoken within our class. The children have been sharing how they can say hello in their own langauages. We decorated a beautiful piece […]

The girls in year 1 were fortunate to walk all the way to Gateshead Stadium to participate in the Girls KS1 football skills event. They all worked so hard to improve their football skills and cheer on their peers. We were all very tired when we got back to school.

Toda, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 retold the story of Palm Sunday to kick off our Holy Week at St Joseph’s.

Year 1 loved visiting the chicks in Reception class this week and seeing how quickly they can change and grow. We are going to be using what we have observed to help us write detailed life cycle in our English work to support our story Pip & Egg.

St. Joseph’s Mini Vinnies reflected on opening the door of ‘healing’ as we move into April. We created prayer cards for those who are sick in our parish.

Science / STEM club were tasked with creating a floating boat using a range of different resources. We added a weight to see if our boats could stay floating!

Year 4 had a lovely afternoon decorating their Easter eggs!

This morning, our caretaker Peter, shared a beautiful celebration of the Word with year 1 and year 2 to remind us of this special time and the promises that we make.

The whole school have spent the day celebrating the amazing victory Newcastle United Men’s team achieved this weekend. We loved creating posters, banners, head bands and flags to celebrate in the yard with. We even practised our very own goal celebrations and learnt some special Newcastle songs.

During PE we have been learning how to strengthen our bodies and minds by copying some well known animals.

This term, year 1 are learning all about spirals within art. We used a pencil to create a snail like spiral and then filled it with chalks. We really enjoyed smudging the chalk with our fingers.

This week, year 1 have been challenging themselves to count to 100 by crossing tens boarders.

Year 1 have been developing their understanding of number using the 100 square. We have been figuring out how to quickly navigate our way around the square and locate missing numbers. We enjoyed using 100 square jigsaws to help us…

Year 1 have been thinking deeply about how they can follow God’s way and show love and care within their home.

This week we have been deepening our understanding of number 1-10. During this lesson, we worked as a team to order the number blocks from 1-10. We then became secret switchers. One of our team switched 2 of the blocks over and the rest of the team worked together to discover which 2 numbers were […]

This week we have been focusing on number 1-10. We are gaining confidence counting and forming each number.

This week, in Science, we have been learning all about our bodies and have enjoyed singing songs and creating giant bodies on our yard to help us label the human body.

Year 1 have had a fantastic first week and have settled in very well. They have enjoyed sharing with Mrs Robinson what they aspire to be in the future and have been thinking about how we must work our best in school to achieve our hopes and dreams. Take a look at our future self […]

Year 1 enjoyed PE this week. We had the chance to explore our hall by moving around the space with a ball using our hands and feet. We practised rolling, throwing, dribbling and catching.

On Wednesday, some of our Year 4/5 girls took part in the Gateshead Girls Football Tournament. They had a fantastic afternoon and displayed wonderful sportsmanship. Their hard work paid off and one of our teams secured bronze medals after coming 3rd out of all the teams that competed. Well done to all of them.

This week we have been learning about the 2 different types of trees. The children were excellent at identifying deciduous and evergreen trees in our school gardens and they were able to explain how they could identify the tree based on its leaves.

Year 1 have started to take a closer look at plants this half term. We have been discussing the different parts of a plant and ventured out into our gardens to see if we could spot any leaves, stems, flowers, roots, trunks and buds on the flowering plants and trees. We were amazed at how […]

Year 1 have been practising their net and wall skills this half term.

Year 1 enjoyed a morning out of class to join many other local schools at Gateshead Stadium to participate in a KS1 Multi Skills Disney event.

Year 2 children had a wonderful day at Beamish Museum where they got to experience life in a Victorian classroom which included standing to speak to answer a questions and addressing the teacher as Ma’am. The sun shone so they were able to enjoy their lunch outside in the grounds.

Last week, year 1 loved their day out at Northumberland Zoo. We had the opportunity to observe many animals and learnt about their diets. The children were able to share which animal group each animal belongs to, as well as if they are herbivores, omnivores or carnivores.

Year 6 were lucky enough to attend the Commonwealth Ceremony at Gateshead Civic Centre. Elizabeth read the commonwealth pledge beautifully then we were invited in to the council chambers with the Mayor of Gateshead. We asked her questions and learned about her job as Mayor of Gateshead.

Year 6 had a fantastic day at Cardinal Hume where they spent the day rehearsing a play which they then performed for their parents at the end of the day. All of the children were amazing and demonstrated some fabulous acting skills.

Year 6 had a great time at Alnwick Gardens. They played Adventure Golf, visited the poison garden and explored the Labyrinth.

Today, Year 3 had a violin lesson in school. We learned how to hold our violin and use our fingers and the bow to make sound. Look how much we enjoyed ourselves!

Year 3 had a great time on World Book Day! We were lucky enough to be involved in a live lesson led by author Joanna Nadin. We listened to her read a chapter of one of her books and then she answered some questions. We learned that it takes Joanna 22 days to plan and […]

Year 6 have enjoyed working on their frames for a motorised vehicle. We have safely used saws and enjoyed joining all of our components together. For our next step, we will use our knowledge of electrical circuits to attach a motor and switch element.

Year 2 have been working hard with our two artists Megan and Elizabeth over the last few weeks. The children completed their amazing ‘rolling moon’ artwork using clay and then decorating with paint. They were then painted and once they were baked in the oven were glazed.

Year 1 have been exploring print making using the rubbings method. We enjoyed discovering the effect that different textured objects could make to our art rubbings. We have explored our classroom and our outdoor area.

Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed investigating the different materials submerged into a tub of water. We used words including buoyant and submerge to describe what was happening to each object. We used our knowledge of materials and their properties to make sensible predictions.

During our art lessons over the past couple of weeks, year 1 have been getting creative by replacing paint brushes with our hands and feet to make large scale collaborative paintings.

Year 1 had a surprise visitor just outside of their window this morning. We loved watching the squirrel search for water, however we discovered that it was frozen. We all enjoyed putting some fresh water out.

Year one have been learning all about odd and even numbers. We have used Numicon to help us recognise the ‘odd one out’ and group our numbers to 10 into odd and even groups.