Projects for 2009 - 2010
Comenius:
We are delighted to be in partnership with Meadowside Community
Primary school in Yorkshire, England and Sant Ignasi-Sarria in Barcelona, Spain
for our 'Making Europe Greener' project. This partnership will be for the years
2009 - 2010 and 2010 - 2011. This is a very exciting project for our school and
we will provide details here in the near future.
We were delighted to host our partners in October and launch the project. Pupils
and teachers from Sant Ignasi-Sarria will be visiting us again in May. We are
really looking forward to it. We have now developed a new website for the
project www.makingeuropegreener.eu.
Accelerated Reading:
Accelerated Reader has being introduced to all
classes from 1st to 6th in September. The aim is to
inspire a love of reading in all pupils, develop self-directed readers and
encourage reluctant readers. It also
ensures that each pupil is reading books that are suited to him.
All pupils have been tested to assess the level of book that would be most
appropriate to their reading age. A selection of books will be recommended for
each pupil to match his reading level. Each boy has access to a website that
will monitor his reading progress, offer quizzes based on the books he has read
and offer incentives to motivate further reading. Certain aspects of this
facility may be accessed from home. We will
be providing more information on this facility in November.
The aim is to inspire a love of reading in all pupils, develop self-directed
readers and encourage reluctant readers. It
also ensures that each pupil is reading books that are suited to him.
Junior Librarian:
St. Joseph's now has a new cataloguing system for library books
in the school. All books have been catalogued and distributed to classes
where they may be easily accessed by the pupils. Each classroom and resource
room has a scanner. Teachers may now monitor and reading patterns of the pupils
as well as recording books and media borrowed.
Laptops: 
To facilitate greater access to computers in the classrooms we
have a laptop trolley with a selection of laptops.
This will give the boys more 'hands-on' time outside of the allocated time as
they may be utilised in the classrooms.
SEN:
Computers in Resource Rooms have been replaced
Classrooms:
All computers in classroom have been replaced with new desktops. To further
improve the ratio of computers to pupils we have introduced a system of
virtualisation. When this system if fully rolled out over the next few weeks
each classroom will have 4 computers for pupil use as well as the teaching
laptop. This greatly increases the pupils access to computers especially for
Accelerated Reader and research.
A special word of thanks to a parent who donated monitors to the school. This
greatly reduced the cost of this development and made it very economical to
implement.
