School Blog

A good first day!

Congratulations to all of those who were confirmed by Bishop Leo on Thursday evening. Here are the P7 pupils from St Joseph's who were Confirmed.

On Saturday 1st of June pupils from St Joseph's Primary with their families and friends celebrated their First Holy Communion.

St Joseph's Primary School will be holding a play based learning event on Monday 17th June 2024. Visit times will be staggered to allow those who have children in multiple classes to spend more time in each class during this event. Start times for each class will be: Nursery, P1 & P2/1: 1:15 - 1:45 ... Continue reading Parent Event

Recently at our school mass Fr Sebastian was delighted to present the Pope Francis Faith Award to 22 of our P7 students. The PFFA begins in Primary 6 and involves regular reflection on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Each pupil then records how these gifts show themselves in action in school, at home, in ... Continue reading Pope Francis Faith Award - Congratulations Primary 7

Dear Parents/Carers, We are pleased to announce that the Polkemmet Park trip has been rescheduled to take place on the 5th and 6th of June. 5th June P5P, P5G, P6, P6/7 and P2/3 6th June P1,P1/2, P3/4, P4 and P7 Please note that all current EE2 forms will remain in place. However, if you have changed your ... Continue reading Eco-sySTEM's - Polkemmet Park

Now, more than ever, there are severe financial pressures on families in our community. Every year in the UK, £15 billion of welfare payments and financial support go unclaimed. If you are in need of information or advice, St Joseph's Primary School has contact with external organisations who may be able to advise you on ... Continue reading St Joseph's Equity team

Thank you to Mrs Haigh who kindly came in to speak to us about her work in engineering and bridge construction. We learned about ways that bridges are transported and how engineering can change peoples lives.

Our STEAM week continued on Thursday with our P5-P7 classes taking part in lots of fun activities within the school. We did some work on team construction, 'gutterball', bottle flip challenges, Building Thinking Classrooms and coding using BBC Microbits.

We were joined by Graeme Binnie from West Lothian College, who kindly delivered his award winning woodwork workshop with our P1 class. Children had the opportunity to draw a picture then, under adult supervision, use woodworking tools and timber to turn their drawing into a woodwork sculpture.

Despite the weather, St Joseph's STEAM week continued today with our P1-P4 classes taking part in school based EcosySTEM activities. We constructed some shelters which animals could live in, we created 'gutter runs', we had coding activities in the library and some classes even created spaghetti based construction models.

A huge thank you to our visiting parent speaker, who kindly came in to share some of their experiences of STEAM areas. We heard lots about programming, space technology and even got to try out some scientific equipment.