St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Jarrow)

stem4’s Parent Mental Health Day (PMHD) encourages understanding and awareness of the importance of parents’ mental health and its impact on the whole family system. With this year’s theme being ‘balance’, the day aims to get parents and carers to take a moment to reflect on the balance they have in their lives and to take positive steps to make change.

Please follow the link for more information –

https://stem4.org.uk/parentmentalhealthday/

We have been asked to share the following information regarding a vaccination bus in South Tyneside.

Dates , times and locations of the vaccination bus sessions are below.

Thursday 13^th January                  10am-4pm                       Lidl Car Park on Boldon Lane

Friday 14^th January                        10am-4pm                       South Shields Town Centre

Saturday 15^th January                   10am-3pm                       South Shields Football Club

Sunday 16^th January                     10am-3pm                       Boldon Community School

Monday 17^th January                    10am-3pm                       South Tyneside College (South Shields Campus)

Thursday 20^th January                  10am-4pm                       Hebburn Central

Friday 21^st January                        10am-4pm                       South Shields Town Centre

Saturday 22^nd January                  10am4pm                         Morrisons Car Park, Jarrow

The sessions highlighted in yellow are the Melissa Bus again and the rest are a smaller NHS bus that is operated by the Nightingale Hospital team.

The Melissa Bus can offer 1^st, 2^nd and booster jabs to anyone eligible over the age of 16. The Nightingale Bus will be using the Pfizer vaccine so can offer 1^st, 2^nd and booster doses to anyone over the age of 12 who is eligible

Dear parent/carer,

For Maths Week England we want to make maths exciting and high profile in our school. We will be taking part in a friendly competition involving schools from England from Monday 8^th November to Thursday 11^th November. It’s all done online via play.ttrockstars.com.

For every correct answer to a multiplication or division question, your child will earn their class a point. The Times Tables Rock Stars platform will calculate the class average (the number of correct answers per pupil in the class who play during the competition hours, subject to a daily 60-minute limit (see below)). Winning classes in the school and in the competition as a whole will be the ones with the highest average.

All game modes (Gig, Garage, Studio, etc.) will count but only from games played between 7:30AM GMT and 7:30PM GMT on Monday 8th, Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th. To support player wellbeing, there is a daily time limit of 60 minutes per player. In other words, each player can earn competition points for up to 60 minutes between 7.30am and 7.30pm. Once the player goes beyond 60 minutes of play on a given day, they will still earn coins but will no longer earn points towards the competition.

In the spirit of the competition, please don’t play on their behalf but by all means encourage and support them to the extent that it doesn’t cause high stress levels or impact on family plans. We suggest a limit of half an hour a day outside school hours – some will play more, some will play less.

Thanks for your support,

Mr Charlton

We are very sorry but we made a typing error in the Newsletter. We can confirm that the Inset Day is on Friday 22nd October and not 21st as mentioned.