And we're back!!!!

Can you believe that the summer holidays have come and gone again?  We've been back to school for over a week now, and are all settling into another exciting year ahead.  New Year 3 pupils,  new children in other classes through out the school, and even some new staff members.
What will the new academic year hold for us?  Watch this space!

summer fete

On saturday 14 july st joseph had a fete.It was a great succses said David pietruch and Shane foy.

It had  lots of rides and activities to do and the the top prize in the raffle was a TABLET!!!!!!!!!Did you win a prize?

if you didn't come to the fete you can come to the next years one.

reveling Reading council

Now we know who are the reading councils.They worked harded to be a reading council they had to complete a three paragraph sheet!WOW!!!

They had their first meeting already but sadly one member of the rading council coudn't come because they where at dell farm that person was Jessica(4SC).hope Jessica will come to the next meeting.

The reading council will get to write in the reading tree(thats our school reading newspaper)get to review libary books and will get some money to spend on a book read it and then review it.

Deadly dell farm

                                          DEADLY DELL FARM

4sc 4rp 4ab and 4kc went to dell farm in the last 2 weeks there were many activities like caving in the CAVE OF DOOM the order went
4kc
4ab
4sc
4rp



The rumor about dell farm is HAUNTED many of us found that when we went some were found wet.THE AWNSER the teachers squirt us with WATER GUNS AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




A boy naned SHANE FOY  was intervied and he said ''this was an amazing expiriance and i want to go again.

Vital Vauxhall

In year four we are learning about Luton and how Vauxhall made cars.So a man called Andrew who was fifty nine years old,who worked at vuaxhall at the age of eighteen.Came to talk to us about the history of vauxhall and how it became famous.Vauxhall has been through a lot of expiriences.Vauxhall was fouded by Alexander WILSON.




They have made  vauxhall army trucks to vauxhall cars.First they started from a small buisness ,until the world war when Germany came to invade Britain,people started to lose their jobs so they started to bring people from Ireland and Scotland. Also, people from America came to Luton and said that they could make vauxhall bigger by  shiping a building from America to Luton.


  Now vauxhall has turned out to be a fabulous car making factory.

Fabulous!

All teachers have a secret yearning to be included in our blog, and while we do mention them by name for their contribution to school life, we rarely have, so far, included their photo - something we must  address in the future!

So - to start us off- just for being fabulous - here is Miss Campbell!

QCAS

Years three, four and five have had a difficult week ahead of them. QCAS  are coming up but we are trying our best.We have already completed a few tests and have still have a lot more to come.The subjects of the tests are Maths, English, Reading, Grammar and Science.

By Madeline in year 4and Amelia in year 5

move4words

Year4 and year6 are doing move4words,we are doing it becuase it will help us go up in levels in subjects. It almosts make your arm fall of but it is worth it,tricky for us but the most fun becuase we are with are friends. A lady had a virous in here brain and the doctors made her a video and she was cured by move4words.              

                                 made by Madeline,Corey,Tom year 4

Trip to Leagrave Library

Year 3  went to Leagrave  library.  Anna Simmons was talking to us about all the splendid books, how to search for them,what you can do with a library card  and how to use a dictionary in the library. We walked over. 3JC and 3BG went Thursday. 3OF and 3CS went on Tuesday.Anna put us in groups and she told us to find what books and to find what book the author would like.Then she gave us a challenge with some book dictonary like if you were in a libary and you were looking for a Frencessca Simon book ylook in s.It was realy exiting at the libary and we  would  love tovisit it again.

Alone at Blog Club!

Deserted due to the fine weather and the draw of the field!!  My Bloggers are out enjoying the beautiful weather and hopefully thinking up many exciting topics for next weeks entries!

Miss Gohery

Dick King-Smith

In year 3 we have been learning about the author Dick King Smith.  Some of his books are called The Fox Busters, Horse Pie, Billy the Bird, All because of Jackson and possibly his most famous, The Sheep Pig, which was made into the movie Babe. He was born on 27 March 1922 and   died on 4 January, 2011.  His first book was The Fox Busters, published in 1978.  He was a teacher and a farmer, and his favourite animals were pigs.  We have many of his books in our class and school libraries, and we recommend you choose one to read.  They are funny, sad, entertaining and enjoyable!

First Holy Communion Season

Over the next few weekends, many of the Year 3  children will be receiving  their First Holy Communion in their parishes, with their family and friends. Please keep them in your prayers as they take the next step on their Faith Journey.   We hope they all have memorable days! 

Frank Diamond's back!!

Frank came in again on Tuesday to share with us that if we donate some money for CAFOD, it really helps people in Africa. He talked about 'Faith in Action', Fairtrade and his experiences in Africa. He sang a special song called Lean On Me, telling us we depend on each other.  He gratefully collected the cheque of our combined fundraising efforts, which came to over £1000!!  Frank then met with the School councilFairtrade Reps, to answer their questions and suggest ideas to lors and the help in the future. 
Katie, Megan and Ciara. 

The Attendance Award for last half term

The three top classes for attendance  for the last half term are............. 
3rd Miss Gohery's class 3BG
2nd - Mrs Gearty's class 6MG
and in first place - Drumroll please............
   is Miss Burn's class -4AB!!
          Congratulations!!
They have the Attendance trophy for the half term, and the pride in knowing that they have achieved such an award! 
Who knows which class it will be after May half term!!
                                             Lily 

Library club fun!

Every Tuesday and Thursday Mrs Murphy runs a club in the library. You can help put books on shelves, organise sections to make sure they have the correct books/authors in them, and can talk about new books that are available.    We can write book reviews, to advise others what we think.   There are so many new and exciting books available!  Come join the fun!  

Ciara and Lily
Year 3

The Easter Garden

 Since the beginning of Lent, the shed in the Prayer Garden has had a cross and things associated with the crucifixion in it. 

After Easter, we changed the  fabric colour  from purple to yellow, to show the joy of the Resurrection.   There are several items laying at the foot of the cross.    Do you know what they are?

 

Sinead Year 5 

Ciara Year 3

 

 

The Outdoor Classroom

 

This area is familiar to children on the Big Playground.  It is fenced off at the moment, but in the future we are hoping it will be put to good use, and will be developed into an Outdoor Classroom for use by all the children. 

Mrs Lee and the school council members are planning to get together to discuss the possibilities!

Watch this space!

Sinead. Year 5

Rocks and Soils

Mixing the ingredients

 In year 3  we are learning about rocks and soils.  These are the places you can find rocks - at the beach, in the playground, underground.  Lots of things are made from rocks, like glass, metal and plastics.

They tasted better than they looked!

Some Rocks are made by many different materials being stuck together - and in Year 3 we made some of these by mixing a variety of ingredients with melted chocolate to show the different rocks being stuck together.  

New blinds in year three

Returning to school after the weekend, we were surprised by the lovely, light new blinds in Year 3 and many of our classrooms, replacing the darker, broken ones.   

They block the sun we sometimes get shining in our windows, and make it easier to see the whiteboards. 

Last Supper Picture

It is so lovely to have such creative and talented people in the school. The boys who produced this beautiful mosaic picture of the last Supper are  Ethan, Albin and Jehovahis from Year 5. We are very glad that Mrs Lee showed it in assembly. It is on display in the hall, very appropriate for Holy Week.
Well done, boys!

Megan, Ciara and Sophia
Year 3

Year 4 Movie for CAFOD

On Monday 25th March,  year 4 are having a movie but they do not know what the film is. We have to bring in 50p or more for the ticket for the movie. All of the teachers are getting some food for it. If you do not bring in your 50p you can pay for it on Tuesday. All of the money is going to cafod, were all of our fund raising has been going during Lent. We are all excited to watch the movie in year 4. We hope that all the  children will enjoy the movie and share it with you about all of it to you.
by Madeline
 year 4

Volcanoes and St Lucia

VOLCANOES!

  

Wow! Volcanoes are blasting out lava!  In our Creative Curriculum topic on St. Lucia, we have been looking at how the island was formed, and how volcanoes work.  We even created our volcano, though we were a little disappointed that the top of the volcano wasn't blown off by a  huge explosion! 

Charlie Year 3

Miss O'Learys cake sale

The amazing fundraiser for Comic Relief took place in Miss O' Leary's classroom at 11.00 o'clock. It raised £89 for Red Nose Day. It included delicious cakes, extraordinary gingerbread men and remarkable home-made lemonade. The rest of year  5 had other activities planned in the morning apart from 5MB who did bike ability. 5LB had a mini cake sale which raised a lot of money.

Erin :) Abigail :)  and Nicole :)
Mrs Lee and us all thank you for your consideration of your monney it has made a large difference and now one more child is saved thanks to all of you.

SATS

As most of you will know year six are revising for their SATS, one of the important parts of our school. We are studying as hard as we can and hopefully it will pay off! This week we are doing our mock SATS, that help us get an idea what the real tests will be like. If we all work hard, we will be successful.

By Anthony Year 6

Red nose day

On Friday 15th March it is Red Nose day. This is the first time we have ever participated in this event as a school, and we're very excited about it! To celebrate we are going to have non uniform and we are going to wear Red. If you do not have any thing red you can put some trousers on and you can wear your school tie and if you are a girl you can wear a red dress, red nose ball on your nose, red hair bobble, red hair band or a red top,  but you can not dye your hair red! All of us will bring in some money on the day to donate to people in need and families or people in the world.

Madeline Year 4
Nahom Year 3

bikeability

In Year Five, people from Bikeability come in each year to teach them to ride on the the road safely and properly.
5LO and 5AG has completed bikeability and has received a badge. We all had so much fun and have come up with an idea to tell the school council to organise bike ability in year 6. If this is possible all year 5s (who will be in year 6 in a year)will be able to get a level 3 badge, and people that didn't go on the road this time will be able to get a level 2. All of us loved the instructors. Some of them were...

Mark
Will
Nathan
Anna
and many more



Jasmine

The world Book day

On the 7th of March it was World Book day so we got to do activities provided by Mrs Gearty. These are some of the activities we did - We made Mr Men characters or a Little Miss and we had to read a Mr Men book and then we had to act it out in groups. It was a great laugh.

Sinead, Katie,Ciara and Megan.

Fair Trade

Fairtrade is an organasation that helps  poor people get a fair price for there cropps. You can get lots of fairtrade products like:coffee ,tea,drinks,chocolate,
cotton clothes,honey,spices,
pineapple,and much more!
Millie,Sophia,Anna

Easter

   Easter is coming up. I bet that you're all going to eat LOADS of chocolate eggs! We are really looking forward to it! I  hope you are too.  Sometimes  people get Easter eggs from the Easter bunny.

Bikeability

When cycling on the road, it is very important that we are confident and know the rules of the road.  To help with this, each year we have the Bikeability team in for 2 weeks, working with Year 5, helping them to gain confidence checking and cycling their bikes, as well as teaching how to behave when cycling on the road.

On Tuesday the 26th of February the year 5s who wanted to brought in their bikes to be checked to ensure they were safe before the training started.  The team made  little repairs where possible.

We hope everyone gains loads of experience and has an enjoyable time!

LiD Assembly

           The LiD project is 'Learning in Depth, which started last year.  One or two children in each class were selected to take part, and they were assigned a topic to work on.  Through the year, they researched and presented their ideas, took part in workshops with the other participating schools and  today they had the opportunity to present their work to the school, which they did in a  brilliant assembly, with the Apples, Jewels, Islands, Bridges and Explorers groups sharing with us what they have been doing. Some very impressive work! Well done to the children working on the project, and Mrs. Massey who works with them.  

Irish dancing

Every Thursday morning Mr Conway does Irish dancing Club.
Some of the dances  are the Reel, Hopjig, light jig and the slipjig. Then there's the heavy dances that are called Heavy jig, Hormpipe and a st dance. They are all different.
We haven't gotten onto those dances in the morning club yet, but with lots of practice, who knows?
Mr Conway thinks we're doing great!

Ciara, Megan and Katie
Year 3

Friends of St. Joseph's activities

The Friends of St. Joseph work very hard all through the year, organising different activities and events for us, to raise money for the school, in fun, entertaining ways.
At the moment, they are organising the Chocoholics chocolate shop,where we are given catalogues to  buy chocolates for Easter, as well as the Mother's Day gift shop, which will be happening on Thursday and Friday, this week.
Thank you so much to all the Friends who put so much time into all this fundraising for us!

First steps to our New Website

On Monday 4th of March 2013 we are having a professional photographer coming to take loads of pictures in school.  These will be used in our new school website, which is being worked on at the moment. Hopefully, when ready, it will be more user friendly and more exciting  to look at.
With the photographer around on Monday, we are all going to look our best!!

Say Cheese!!

World Book Day

On the 7th of March we are celebrating World Book Day by going off time table and doing lots of activities based on the Mr. Men Books.

Mrs. Gearty has sorted out lots of  lessons, and has given ideas to the teachers of activities we can do through out the day. 

Every school are giving book tokens to the children

and they give us £1 off our books.

There is going to be a shop in the lunch hall.

Some children are going to buy books

from the shop. It is happening in schools

all around the world.
It is going to be a be

a blast.

Charlie and Chisanga
Year 3

Film night

Thursday 7th of February 2013 it was film night for year 4 and 3. The brilliant Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3,  It was a comedy for the children.We ate  popcorn and we  drank drinks and we had hotdogs. There is many books out but this one is brand new. At the end of the fantastic film we had a raffle to win the DVD. Went in our PJ'S.It was amazing. We would like to thank the friends because they organised it and of course our parents for paying for us

Ciara and Megan

Half Term

As most of you would know tomorow is half term. Yay!! One whole week of doing nothing! Us Year Sixes will really need some time off because we have just finished doing our mock SATS. Also, the cold weather and snow are freezing our socks off!

By Anthony Year 6

Year 4 Netball

Before Christmas, and now, year 4s have been training, trying really hard to impress Mr Rigby so they can join the Year 4 Netball team.They have been doing foot work, shooting and practicing throwing balls to each other.Their skills have improved in a variety of ways including chest passes and shoulder passes. Many pupils have being successful and got into the team! 
Congratulations!We practice every week.
Madeline, Amelia, Millie and  Sophia

Superb St.Lucia

The Pitons in St. Lucia

Super Year 3 are studying about St.Lucia, one of the beautiful islands in the Caribbean Sea.
It has:
Tropical fish
a walk-in volcano
swim in the caribbean
 fun festivals with  singing and dancing
eat tasty food
different language and culture 

It's a great place to go on holidays, so if you ever go to ST.LUCIA we hope you have a great time there.


By Lucia and Sophia and Anna
Year 3

O2 Arena

The O2 arena was on Wednesday 30th of Januaruy 2012.It was terrific!On the way everyone saw the Olympic Stadium and all of us were amazed. Once we got there, the chairs and steps looked so steep that you could fall down, but luckily no one did.
It took a while for the O2 to fill up.
We had to rehearse before the real thing, during that we learned some actions for most of the songs.
It was a blast!!!We had alot of fun there and sang most of our favourite songs.

Jasmine and Amelia and Gabby!!!!!

Yr 5 & 6 Film night

It was a great time to watch a film after school.
We watched Diary of a wimpy kid 3: DOG DAYS
This was really fun and we had snacks to eat such as
Popcorn, Hotdogs, Rasberry and Orange drinks
It was the best day for St.Josephs.
we left at 8 o'clock
And its was snowing when we came out.
And at the end we had a raffle.
By Lauren Rees, Millie Smith

The New Achievement Board

Mrs Lee has put up a new achievement board. The new board is in the hall where the dinner lady sits doing the register at lunchtime. There are lots  achievers on the board already. Mrs Lee took pictures of  people who have won medals and trophies, produced impressive work etc.

Millie Sophia
Year 3

Congratulations Luton Town

Congratulations Luton Town for beating Norwich 1-0 on Saturday 26th January in the  fourth round of the
FA cup.  You did very well beating
Norwich.

Good luck facing Millwall in Wembley Stadium in the next round!


Nahom and Chisanga
Year 3

Ancient Egyptian day

Year three had an Ancient Egyptian day to mark the end of our Ancient Egyptian topic.  We all got to dress up as an Egyptian person - even the adults!  We  were shown how to make carvings,  incense, bread, mummify, write in Hieroglyphs,  make perfume, painting, canopic  Jars and bracelets. 
We got to have a Banquet, and in small groups, we got to perform dances or dramas.  We did the drama.  The dances were the dance of the river Nile and the story of the Clay crocodile. The drama was  the story of Isis and Osiris, and the other group  were court petitioners, begging justice from the pharaoh. 
While the children where doing acts, the servants were giving out food to eat - brown rolls, cheese, grapes and apples. We also had blackcurrant juice to drink, from lovely silver goblets. 

It was a great experience and everyone had a wonderful time.

Ciara, Katie and Megan
Year 3

Science for Year 5

     seeing things

During science, year fives have been working on 
SEEING THINGS. They have been learning how shadows are formed and how the eye sees things.  

Year Four Swimming

Year four swimming comes to an end for 4SC and 4RP, but 4KC and 4AB will be starting soon. At the beginning of the year,  our teachers told us that we would be going to Inspire swimming pool instead of Wardown Pool.  

Irish dancing Club.

Irish dancing club  is phenomenal! We learn how to do our 7s, hop 2 3 and all other steps we learn with Mr Conway.  He is a perfect Irish dancer.  We always look forward to going to learn Irish dancing. We do 'duck duck Irish dancing'.  It's wonderful! Our clothes are colourful, brilliant and bright.


Gabby and Daveen

squash on the roll

We have recently introduced a new Breakfast Club to the school - Squash!  This is a new sport to the school and is proving very popular.  The coach is called Steve Davis.

If you want play and you did not

get in,   just come to Lewsey Sports Centre

on Saturday mornings,  9.45
and you can play.

                                                      Lily

Quantam Theatre

A few days ago Quantam Theatre came into our school to make our English - particularly our storywriting -  better. They talked about how to write a proper story. Quantam Theatre told us to take a story and change the characters, setting and of course the baddies. They made us laugh and giggle as well as teaching us new adjectives, adverbs and similes.  At the end they taught us how to make a good story. So now we are are going to be better than  Jacqueline WILSON!
We all had great fun.

     4 Times Tables


Are  you having trouble with your 4X tables?

here is a little paragraph that will help you!


4X0=0      Did this help you?Are you better?
4X1=4
4X2=8
4X3=12
4X4=16
4X5=20              Charlie.

Snow!

The view from the Year 3 Block on Friday afternoon.
As the snow continued to fall all day, the decision was made to close the school early, to ensure everyone could get home safe, in case conditions worsened.

We had Monday off due to poor weather and road conditions, which gave many families opportunities to go sledging and build snowmen.

Last day of school

On Friday the 21st December we broke up from school for the Christmas break.On the last day of school we had toy day where people bring in something that they like to play with. On the last day of school we went Mass to end the last term. We hope you enjoyed it and had a Happy Christmas!
                                 
   By Fern and Leah

Karate Club

Each Monday morning, before Schoo, is Karate club, where the sensai teaches young children KARATE. His name is John. Each  year we get a grading, meaning that we are making progress and get a different coloured belt.
We have to arrive at 8:00 am, dressed in either our P.E outfits or a KARATE GUI.

IT IS SUPER-FUN!!!!


Lauren and Natalie 6TR

Big Year Ahead!

This year  is VERY important for all of us no-matter what year you are in! During the next week or so year 6 will receive SATS practise books to help them revise for their SATS later on this year. Even though you are not in years 6, still work hard because when you are in year 6,  you'll be revising hard to do your best in  your SATs. Later on in year 4 they will be experiencing  Dell Farm ( just to say ... you will have an a AMAZING time!) Also year 6 will be going to Kingswood and have an amazing time aswell!
We hope you enjoy these future dates.

Rhianna and Lily

back to school

Back to school from the Christmas holidays. We're glad to see you!  We all had very good Christmas
didn't we?!    
Happy New Year 2013 to all of you!
So, have a good day!                                                                                              
Josh & Charlie
Year 3