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St Joseph's Primary School Meigh

Declan Carville

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Declan Carville a local author came to visit our school and read some of his published books. The children really enjoyed listening and asking him lots of questions.

 

Dairy Council

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Dairy Council visited our school and spoke to Primary 5 and 6 about the importance of a Healthy, balanced diet. It was a very interactive talk and the children had great fun learning the song.

 

Burns Soccer School

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Aaron from Burns Soccer School is teaching the Primary 5 children about the importance of a having a Healthy Heart.

 

Paired Reading

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Primary 5 children are enjoying their weekly Paired Reading session with the Primary 3 children.

 

St Brigid's Day

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To celebrate St Brigid’s Day we made St Brigid’s cross collages.

 

Catholic Schools Week

 
 
 
 
 

Catholic Schools Week

Primary 5 are busy celebrating Catholic Schools Week all this week. Today we were talking about How to love your neighbour and had to choose 1 word on how they can love their neighbour.  We then put all of the words together in a lovely class chain.

 

Problem Solving with Izak 9

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Problem Solving

The Primary 5 class had great fun problem solving with our new Izak 9 cubes.  They played the game called the Eliminator and had to work as a team to solve the problems.  Everyone enjoyed today’s challenge and worked well solving all the problems including putting the cubes back into their box.

 

Gimme 5 Wellbeing Programme

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wellbeing

Gina McKnight from EA are running a 5 week programme with the Primary 5 class called Gimme 5 which involves learning 5 ways to wellbeing. Next weeks session is yoga.

 

Snow

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Fun in the snow

 

Happy birthday October

 

Happy birthday James and Caoimhe. I hope you liked your buns😀

 

Birthdays

Happy birthday Emilija, Daniel and Quinn

 

Anti Bullying Week

 
 

Anti-Bullying Week

We celebrated a Kindness week in St Joseph's and completed lots of activities linked to kindness.  Primary 5 had to design a poster to show Kindness and promote Anti-Bullying.  Charlie O'Malley won our poster competition for being kind and the designing the best poster.  Well done Charlie!

 

Maths Week

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Maths Week

We had a great week of Maths.  The children completed lots of fun maths activities and entered a competition.  The winner of the competition was Jasmine Rice who received a prize for her efforts.

Well done Jasmine!

 

Fire Safety Week

 
 
 

The fire service normally visit Primary 5 every year but this year due to covid they have not been able to. They sent us a virtual video to tell the children all about Fire Safety.

 

Egyptian Day

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Egyptian Day

We had a fantastic day at The Navan Centre in Armagh finding out about the Egyptians.