October 6, 2008

Data Protection

Attached are two documents relating to the data we hold as a data controller in relation to the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like further details please contact the school.

Download Data Protction Letter (WORD 500KB)

Download Fair Processing Notice Layer 2 (WORD 61KB)

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August 8, 2008

St. Joseph's Herald is ready to download.

The summer edition of the St. Joseph's Herald is ready to download. The document is a MSPublisher document not a Word document so if you only have Word you might not be able to view it. However, most of the stories are already on this website.
Download St Joseph's Herald (MS Publisher 3.6MB)

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July 10, 2008

DT and Art Evening

On Tuesday 24th June the children of St Joseph’s held a fantastic exhibition of their Art and Design and Technology work. There were wonderful examples of children’s work from reception to Year 6.

All of the children proved themselves to be very talented and creative! Each class also cooked and decorated cakes and biscuits to sell at the event which proved to be very popular! There was fantastic support from parents and family who came in their droves to look at the exhibition of work and of course to sample the cakes and biscuits.

The event was a huge success and we managed to raise £264 which will help to buy resources in school. Again we would like to thank everyone who contributed to this fantastic event.

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July 5, 2008

Budding Artists at St. Joseph's

My painting of bluebells reached the final of the Northumbria in Bloom Children’s painting competition.
In June I was invited to the award presentation. There were lots of children there from schools around the region and the TV and Radio presenter Marian Forster gave out the awards. She presented me with a certificate of merit.
Although I didn’t win the overall prize for my age group, I was very proud to be in the final ten and I am looking forward to entering the competition again next year.
By Charlotte Year 3.

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Piglets, Lambs and Llamas

On Wednesday 7th May, the Reception Class went to Whitehouse Farm on the bus for our summer trip. Mr Hannah, Miss Eley and Mrs Gibbons all came to help us.

When we got off the bus we met our guide Toni and she took us to put our packed lunches in the barn. Then we started to look at the animals.

In the barn, we saw some piglets, we fed the cows, llamas and the lambs. After that, we had a ride on the tractor, it was very bumpy but we enjoyed it. Then we went into the maze and we all managed to find our way out! We also had a race down a field where we had to run to Miss Eley who took our photograph.

In the barn we saw other creatures like a big spider, an iguana and a Dragon Lizard, which Mr Hannah held.

We had a lovely packed lunch in a big barn and at the end of the day we all went on the soft play – it was great fun.

Here are some pictures to show what an interesting time we had.

Then it was time to get on the bus and go back to school, after a lovely day learning lots about the farm.

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July 2, 2008

Holy Communions at St. Anne's

Congratulations and well done to all the children who made their First Holy Communion at St. Anne's Church on Sunday. You were a credit to the school and the parish community.

Here are just a few of the photographs taken by friends and family on Sunday. Don't they all look smart. Click on the link to see them.

Holly and Chloe

Adam and Rebecca

Holly

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June 26, 2008

Congratulations and Well Done!

Congratulations and well done to all the children who made their First Holy Communion at St. Joseph's Church last Sunday. You were a credit to the school and parish community.

We are also looking forward to St. Anne's this Sunday when more of our children are making their First Holy Communion.

Here are just a few of the photographs taken by friends and family on Sunday. Don't they all look smart.

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April 5, 2008

Fantastic Easter Bonnets!

We couldn't believe our eyes when the younger children came to school wearing their Easter Bonnets. The quality of the work that had gone into producing the many hats was excellent. All of the children were very proud of thyeir creations.
Here are just a few of the hats for you to make your own judgements about.

If you want to see some more click on the link below.

They were absolutely great!

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March 20, 2008

Eggcellent Easter Eggstravagansa!

As part of our Easter celebrations the children were encouraged to decorate an egg. What an eggstra special effort the children made. Here is a selection of photos from the display in the hall.
Don't they look eggcellent!

If you want to see more of the children's efforts, click on the link below.

Well Done Everybody!

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March 17, 2008

World Book Day Success!

Well done to all the children who got dressed up to celebrate World Book Day. Here are a selection of photos from the day.



Click on this link to see more pictures.

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February 29, 2008

World Book Day

Dear Parents,

Next Friday, 7th March is World Book Day. To celebrate this event, we are encouraging our children to come to school dressed up as a character from one of the legends our international partners have researched.

The legends and stories are from Ireland, Portugal and France. They can be found on our school website which is www.blaydon-st-josephs.org.uk You don’t have to worry about speaking these languages as they have all been translated into English.

If you wish to chose an English story, Key Stage 2 have been looking at English legends and Key Stage 1 have been looking at traditional stories. So I’m sure there is something for all.

Yours sincerely,

Mr D. A. Hannah
International Dimensions Co-ordinator

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February 11, 2008

Year 4 Are The Champions!

Last Wednesday, 8 year 4 children took part in a Multi-skills Challenge event at St. Thomas More High School.

All the activities involved dribbling, running, throwing and target hitting. There were 10 different activities. We liked throwing the ball at the target the best. Our worst event seemed to be getting the basketball through the hoop, but we tried really hard in all the events.

At the end of the competition the points from all the events were collected. We hoped that we had got a medal but to our surprise we actually won the event beating Highfield St. Joseph’s by one point.

We received gold medals and a lovely big trophy. Team managers Miss Shepherdson and Mr Hannah said we were fantastic and good sportsmen.

Written by Holly and Jack.

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February 3, 2008

Extended Schools

If you are interested in finding more about Extended Schools and our partnership with St. Thomas More High School, click on the link below.
Download Extended Schools file (Word:- 700 KB)

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January 16, 2008

Well Done Kate!

The whole school wishes to pass on our congratulations to Kate in year 6 who won a competition to design a colourful Christmas caption for The Evening Chronicle. Her Christmas greeting was published on the front page of the Christmas Eve edition. We are so proud of you.
If you wish to have a look at her caption and the associated story, click on these links to view them.
Download Front Page (PDF:- 360 KB)
Download Main Story (PDF:- 270 KB)

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December 18, 2007

The Herald is Ready!

The new edition of the St. Joseph's Herald is available to download. It was produced using MS Publisher. If you don't have Publisher you can still download a MSWord version however we feel the Publisher version is better.
These files might take a long time to download as they are fairly large.
Download St. Joseph's Herald (Publisher:5.1 MB)
Download St. Joseph's Herald (Word: 750KB)

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Nativity Nightmares!

Thank you to all the people that came to see the school plays this year. The children really enjoyed performing for you. Continue reading this section if you want to remind yourself of the perfomance.

The teachers working hard.

The Choir

Gabriel appearing to Mary.

The baby Jesus is born.

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November 19, 2007

Well Done Children!!

The charity Samaritan's Purse were extremely pleased with the response by the children of St. Joseph's to their appeal.

The children managed to make 107 shoe boxes for children less fortunate than ourselves. These boxes will be sent to children in different countries making the joy of Christmas spread around the world.

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Jolly Phonics Evening a Success

Thanks to all the parents that attended the Jolly Phonics evening. You seemed to enjoy it. For those of you who wish to have a copy of the actions, you can download them from this link.
Jolly Phonics Actions:- Download file (Word 28KB)
If you want to find further information about Jolly Phonics go to the website:-
http://www.jollylearning.co.uk

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October 16, 2007

Mathematics Evening for Year 3 and 4

Dear Parents or Guardians

Have you ever wondered which addition or subtraction method they are doing at school or how do their sums look so different from when I was at school?

Well here is your chance to find out how the children are expected to do various calculations in year 4 and 3.

There is a meeting for parents to find out about ‘Maths Methods’ on Wednesday 31st October at 4:30 p.m. This session will last just over an hour and will hopefully be informative, so you can support your children with homework or just generally at home.

I hope you will take up this opportunity to extend your understanding of how the children work but don’t be too worried there won’t be a test at the end of it.

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July 11, 2007

Sports Day

Congratulations to all the children that tried their best today. Remember, it's the taking part that counts.
If you want to see the rest of the photographs click on the link to read more.

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May 24, 2007

A Great Big Thank You!

From all the Friends of St. Joseph's for all your support at the Summer Fair. We would like to thank everyone who made donations, helped on stalls and turned up on the day. It was a huge success and together we raised over £1,300 which goes straight back to the school to benefit the children.

Thanks again for your continued support!

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May 10, 2007

Summer Fair

St. Joseph's Summer Fair will be held at the school on Sunday 20th May starting at 1:00 p.m. All friends of the school both past and present will be welcome and you might even bag a bargain. There are a variety of stalls and all we need is good weather.
We are looking forward to seeing you all.

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April 23, 2007

New St. Joseph's Herald Available

If you would like to download your own copy of our termly newspaper. Click on the link below.
Download St. Joseph's Herald (Word 2.1 MB)

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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

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 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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December 22, 2006

St. Joseph's Herald

If you wish to see a copy of the December '06 edition of the St. Joseph's Herald. Please download it from here. It may take you some time as it is rather a large file.

Download file:- St. Joseph's Herald (Word: 5.61 M.B.)

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December 19, 2006

Year 6 Sing to the Elderly

The year 6 children will be singing carols at the following events:-

Tuesday 19th December, 1:15-2:15 p.m.
The Luncheon Club at Winlaton Community Centre

Wednesday 20th December, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Valley View Residential Home, Winlaton

We hope our audiences experience the true meaning of Christmas!

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December 17, 2006

Children Light Up The Quayside on the 24th November

The year 6 children ready to brighten up the quayside.

It might have been a rain soaked evening in November but that didn’t dampen the spirits or the voices of the year 6 children. They had been asked to help the Lady Mayoress of Gateshead to switch on the Christmas lights on the banks of the Gateshead Quayside.

The event took place outside the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, just beside the Millennium Bridge. The children were in fine voice and sang a variety of Christmas carols old and new. Both parents and teachers agree that the children’s voices helped to brighten up an evening when the weather was so miserable.

Afterwards the children enjoyed a heart warming cup of hot chocolate with the Lady Mayoress.

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December 14, 2006

Hello all there at Blaydon St.Joseph's!

Barnaby Joseph experiences snow in Finland in November

I'm writing for Barnaby Joseph, who's been visiting our school for a week now. Oh yes, our school: that is Jyväskylän Normaalikoulu, in Jyväskylä, Finland. We have about 390 students and about 25 teachers. We are lucky to have a nice new school building, which is only 4 years old. Our school is a bit older: we celebrated our 140th anniversary this year, in October.

Barnaby meets new friends in Finland

When Barnaby arrived in Finland, we had snow on the ground, but during the weekend rains the most of it melted away or turned grey. There's one picture attached with the snow. Later, in winter, everything is covered with snow.

Barnaby has enjoyed his stay, and he has talked to many classes and gained a lot of new friends, too. One of them, Helmi, who is 10 made Barnaby a woolly hat and a scarf so that he doesn't get cold when he travels around. (Did you know that in Finland we have crafts and needlework as a school subject? Children can learn how to knit and sew.)

From Finland Barnaby is going to France, so he's saying bye for now.
We're going to follow his travels once we get the website running.

Best regards,

Barnaby &

Mari Kalaja
teacher of English and French
Jyvaskylan Normaalikoulu, Finland

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Barnaby Joseph Sets Out On His Travels

Barnaby is a teddy bear that usually lives in Blaydon St. Joseph’s school in Tyne and Wear, England. For many years Barnaby has accompanied the children on their holidays experiencing the differences and delights of other countries. When he returns he tells the children about his adventures, what he has seen and how it is different from his home town of Blaydon. He has also accompanied teachers to international meetings, conferences and has collected many pictures of himself in many different parts of Europe.

At a school assembly last month, Mr. Hannah, the headteacher of St. Joseph’s, announced that Barnaby is now old enough to travel on his own. Since then, Barnaby has set out on his travels around Europe, visiting schools for about a week, sending reports and photos from these schools back to his friends at home. Before he moves on, another school stamp is added to his passport. The children themselves designed his passport.

Watch this space if you want to find out more about where Barnaby is travelling to.

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