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January 31, 2007
Children Enjoy Pantomime in the School
As part of the school's policy of encouraging children to experience a wide and varied curriculum, the children had the pleasure of welcoming the West Midland Theatre Company to our school. The theatre group entertained the children with the pantomime "Jack and The Beanstalk." Some of the children were even asked to join in.
All of the children thought it was so good that we should invite them back again next year.
This pantomime was possible through the fund raising efforts of the Friends of St. Joseph's.
If you wish to see some of the photos of the pantomime click on the link to read more.
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January 30, 2007
Year 4 Use Excel in Science
The year 4 children have been using the program Excel to produce some interesting graphs for their science work. The children used the program to show what happens to hot, cold and room temperature water over a period of time.
Click on these links if you wish to view their work.
Download Kai and Emily's work
Download Aleanor and Amy's work
Download Anna and Callum's work
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Blaydon St. Joseph's Selects Swimming Team
The following pupils have been selected to represent the school in the forthcoming gala:-
Individual Competiions
Front Crawl
Connor Betteridge
Lucy Graham
Back Crawl
Connor Newton
Esther Wilson-White
Breast Stroke
Ryan Bickle
Marcella Connelly
Front Crawl Relay
Connor Betteridge
Connor Newton
Ryan Bickle
Shaun Callaghan
Lucy Graham
Marcella Connelly
Katie McKay
Eleanor Martin
Medley Relay
Back Crawl
Connor Newton
Esther Wison-White
Breast Stroke
Ryan Bickle
Marcella Connelly
Front Crawl
Connor Betteridge
Jason Dale
Lucy Graham
Ellie Bailey-Gilroy
Good luck to them all!
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January 24, 2007
Barnaby in Ireland, What an exhausting time!
Dear Children,
The children of first class told me all about their school today. It is a green school, which means that they really try to take care of the environment. They taught me all the ways that I could help the environment.
They showed me how they recycle paper, batteries, cans, cartons, and bottles, they even have a compost heap for all their food waste. The children try to use ways of coming to school that save energy. They walk, cycle or ride their scooters instead of coming in the car.
I had lots of fun learning about helping to save the environment, maybe you could try to help the environment too!
Kind regards,
Barnaby
(I must be on my travels but I hope it's not all by scooter.)
Posted by A Hannah at 3:20 PM | Comments (0)
January 23, 2007
New Football and Netball Strips
The football and netball squads were extremely pleased to model the new set of strips recently at the school assembly. The feeling was that these new strips would bring us some luck in the rest of the season ahead. So here's hoping that the new strips inspire the children to greater things. We all look forward to hearing about the forthcoming matches on this website.
Here are some of the footballers modelling their new strips.
Here are some of our fantastic netballers looking oh so smart.
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Children Produce News Reports For CLC Radio
The children in year 5 have been down to Gateshead CLC to produce some exciting news reports for CLC Radio.
Some of the reports have been been replicated here.
Welcome to today’s News. I’m Michael O’Neill and I am reporting on recent events at Blaydon St Joseph’s school who have had international visitors visiting their school. The visitors came from Poland, Italy and Greece. They had come to compare their schools to our British schools and see how our children work in this country. They said that they enjoyed the warm welcome and the hospitality of the pupils. They also enjoyed the company of the children during lunch. They enjoyed their stay and love the facilities around the school and also in Newcastle. That concludes the report.
By Michael O’Neill
Welcome to the today’s news with Michael Renwick broadcasting from the CLC broadcast centre. The Government changed all of England’s school dinners in November because they weren’t very healthy.
They changed the school meals to healthy meals because healthy food is good for your brain and will make the children work harder. The teachers noticed the children were talking and being silly because of the unhealthy food.
One Teacher, Miss Shepherdson said, “Talking leads to big mistakes!�
Changes have been made recently because the food made the children hyperactive. Blaydon St. Josephs is working on a menu that will make children work harder and will make the children be better behaved.
Thank you and goodbye
Reported by Michael Renwick
Hello, welcome to today’s news, I am Reese Champion and I am going to tell you a little bit about the day when St.Joseph’s school went to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Newcastle.
There was a mass for the first half of the morning, which had a lovely choir. Over one hundred children and their teachers attended the mass.
There was a dance in church aisle followed by sign language. All of the classes involved tried hard and did very well.
The mass was all about St. Cuthbert and how he told stories; it was also about God and how he is always by our side. One person who attended the mass thought it was a very good mass and would like to see this kind of thing again. Another women who attended said, “I thought it was a beautiful mass, the children performed well together.�
My personal opinion is that the mass went well. It made it so much easier for people to understand the story we were trying to tell.
Reported by Reese Champion
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January 18, 2007
Barnaby Explains Where He Has Been!
If you want to find out where I have been, you will have to click here.
Download file (Word: 683KB)
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January 14, 2007
Barnaby Arrives in Ireland After Some Interesting Adventures
Dear Friends,
I am in St. Clare's primary school in Dublin, Ireland. I am working with the first class. There are 17 fantastic children in the class. They work very hard and are really taking good care of me.
They learn lots of different subjects. They do maths, reading, writing, poetry, science, history, geography, music, religion and P.E. They even learn the Irish language. The children in the first class especially like reading and listening to stories. They love the Horrid Henry story books.
I am going to visit some more classes tomorrow to find out as much information about the school as I can. I will email you soon and tell you all about it. I might take some pictures too!
Slán (which means goodbye in Irish - I learnt this yesterday)
Barnaby
P.S. If you're nice I will let you know about my adventures.
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