Mrs Rice
Welcome to Primary 6!
PUPIL OF THE WEEK GALLERY
- Brunswick Movie Bowl
〰️ End of Year Trip
- Brunswick Movie Bowl 〰️ End of Year Trip
Being Creative with Video!
We had such an exciting day with Emma from the Amma Centre creating our Titanic ‘Diodramas’!
Firstly we created shoe box dioramas of rooms aboard the Titanic.
We then created a script for our characters aboard the great ship.
We then had a day ‘on set’ and recorded our dramas.
With the help of Chromo keying, Doink Greenscreen and iMovie, we were transported aboard the Titanic and recorded our dramas inside the little rooms we created!
World Book Day
What a great day we had celebrating World Book Day in St Joseph’s!
We had a busy week making potato book characters, extreme reading, completing anagrams, taking part in book quizzes, creative writing, dressing up and of course, lots of reading!
Pancake Tuesday
Safer Internet Day
We celebrated Safer Internet Day in school today.
The Digital Leaders presented us with lots of very useful information about keeping ourselves safe online.
We joined the Dream Space team for a live event where we completed challenges through the medium of Minecraft: Education Edition and learned about digital citizenship and internet safety.
We finished off the day with a class quiz on Quiziz
Young Enterprise Programme
We are very lucky to be an affiliated school in the YE Programme.
We had a great day with Fionnuala, from YE, on Thursday.
We learned about how countries of the world rely on each other for resources. We explored the importance of import and export. We learned so many new things in a fun and interactive way!
Titanic
Grandparents Day
Happy Grandparents Day to our special Nannies and Grandads!
Well done Eimear!
Eimear won a cup and several medals at the O’Kane School of Dancing Class Feis on Saturday! Fantastic Eimear!
December Mathletes!
DITCH THE DARK SANTA RUN!
REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE
Our topic this month is Reduce, Reduce, Recycle.
Emmett from Fermanagh & Omagh District Council came in to speak to us about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling in order to protect our environment.
We were surprised to learn each of our households produces one tonne of waste each year! We are going to make a big effort in school and at home to reduce the amount of waste we produce and think of alternative, more environmentally friendly way to do things!
Dr Loftus Cup comes to St Joseph’s!
The Tyrone Masters defeated Dublin to claim their All-Ireland title in October and we were lucky to have the winning captain, player and cup visit us!
Thanks to these two local heroes, Lele and Ryan, for bring the Dr Loftus Cup to our school and for sharing your experiences and advice with us.
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM DAY
We celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day by getting outdoors to play and learn. We love spending time outdoors and learning is more fun!
For our Art Lesson today, we gathered lots of natural materials and worked in our groups to create beautiful pieces of art. We formed houses, faces, figures and a coastal scene! Some were even 3D! Check out our photos below!
PSNI Talk - Staying Safe Online
Rachel from the PSNI visited our school to talk about the importance of staying safe online.
She gave us these four helpful reminders while using the internet:
People are not always who they say they are, so be careful.
Do not share personal information. Never use your real name or give details of your address, date of birth or school you attend.
Always be nice to people - whether you’re on or offline!
Listen to yourself - if you think there’s something wrong, then tell an adult about how you feel.
MATHS WEEK
We love to play games as part of our Numeracy lessons. This week, to celebrate maths week, we played lots of games and we particularly enjoyed the challenging Multiplication Jigsaw!
HALLOWEEN FUN!
Tom Sweeney entertains all at St Joseph’s!
What a fun morning we had singing along and listening to the tales of Tom Sweeney!
A morning to remember for sure!
Sam Maguire visits St Joseph’s!
We were delighted to welcome some very special visitors to our school on Friday!
Niall Sludden and Peter Teague brought Sam Maguire and the Anglo Celt Cup for us all to see. Such excitement! The photos say it all!
Well done to these Mathletes!
PDMU
As part of our Learning Living Together PDMU programme we are looking at identifying what is important to us. We had great fun playing ‘What’s it Worth?’ at our Aspiration Auction. Being safe, healthy, having a happy family life and working with animals were up there with the highest bids, proving very valuable to us!
Bike to School Week
We are participating in Sustran’s Bike to School Week. P6 have made an amazing effort to travel to school in this active way. Anne-Marie from Sustrans led us in a fantastic Cycle Safety session where we learned lots about cycling safely on the road and had some fun too!
How to Draw a Viking
We are familiarising ourselves with lots of examples of Instructions! We really enjoyed creating these very vicious vikings! We followed a set of instructions on how to draw a viking. We coloured them using oil pastels and used lots of fabrics and materials to add lots of detail!
Instructional Writing
Our writing genre this month is Instructional Writing. We understand the purpose of a procedure is to tell us how to do something. We followed clear steps to create these origami dogs.
Place Value Games
This month we have been learning all about Place value up to one million. We really enjoyed this place value game identifying, ordering and comparing numbers up 999,999!
TYRONE DAY!
What a fun day we had supporting our county footballers for the All Ireland Final.
We dressed up in our county colours, designed Tyrone jerseys, read all about Sam Maguire, learned about our county crest and had our lunch in Dooher’s Diner!
We’re cheering on the boys for a win!
Tír Eoghain Abú!
