Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Christian Aid Fair-trade Visit

  Fri 29 May 2015

  Year 6 classes each welcomed a visit from Christian Aid worker David this week.  David held mini- workshops in each of the  classes exploring what his organisation did, how they help people and children from developing countries and how they make links with the Fairtrade organisation.  David talked to the children about how Christian Aid raises money and how they support people who are living in poverty.  Christian Aid help by providing money for clean water, providing funds so people have enough food and ensuring that people have safe places to live.  As part of our ‘Fair Active’ Award, children explored and played ‘The Coffee Chain’ game! Children had to put their numeracy skills to the test by trying to calculate how much money is generated and received by producing a simple jar of coffee from South America!

   

  Well done to our Year 6 children and a very big thank you to David from Christian Aid for making the Fairtrade workshops such fun!

  

• KS2 Sports Day

  Fri 22 May 2015
  Many congratulations to all the competitors during our KS 2 Sports Day. Everyone enjoyed the new activities we had including archery, disc throwing and the new football target shooting equipment. A great day was had by all. Many thanks to all the parents who turned out to join in the atmosphere and to those parents who took part in the Parent/Teacher races. A huge word of thanks to our fantastic PE co-ordinator, Mr O'Brien for organising the event, to Shannon and Jacqui from TESCO for the beautiful fruit stations, Miss Agnew for the energetic warm up and our team of volunteers who helped out so well on the day!

  

• Foundation & KS 1 Sports Day 2015

  Thu 21 May 2015
  Congratulations to the wonderful children in Primary 1, 2, 3 and 4 on their fantastic Sports Day! Many thanks to all the parents and grandparents who came along to support the children. A great day was had by all.

  

• Year 5 Farm to Fork TESCO Visit

  Tue 19 May 2015
  The Year 5 children from Mr McMullan's class had a fantastic day at TESCO sampling cheese, fruit and vegetables from around the world. They completed activities on where products came from and explored how these products arrive on the shelves in TESCO. Many thanks to Jacqui and Shannon for all their organising. We had a great time and learnt so much!

  

• First Communion 2015

  Sun 17 May 2015
  Congratulations to our wonderful Year 4 children on making their First Communion. Thank you to Fr Chris for the lovely service and to all the parents and community for coming along to celebrate this beautiful sacrament. Many thanks to the staff of the school for the preparation of the children and community celebration afterwards.

  

• South West Champions

  Thu 14 May 2015
  Congratulations to our Gaelic Footballers who arrived home South West Champions on Thursday 14th May. They received Gold Cumman na Bunscoil medals from Chairperson, Mr Jim Brady for winning their section of the competition. Congratulations to all 23 boys who traveled to Ballymena and represented their school so way.

  

• Friends' Fabulous Fun Run

  Fri 08 May 2015
  Our annual sponsored Fun Run took place on Friday 8th May. The children completed their laps of the playground to some of their favourite tunes and had a great time. Thank you to everyone who sponsored the children and helped to raise some money towards our appeal for emergent technologies. Thank you to the Friends of St. Joseph's for their organisation of the event. Congratulations to all the children who took part and we hope you display your certificates with pride. 

  

• Dairy Council

  Thu 07 May 2015
  As part of our healthy lifestyles programme two representatives from the Dairy Council visited our school and delivered 'Food and Fitness' workshops for Primary 5 and 6. The children enjoyed learning the raps taught by Victoria and Emma and taking part in the healthy lifestyle activities they had planned.

  

• Back to Blackboard Day!

  Fri 01 May 2015

  Congratulations and many thanks to all who supported our  ‘Back to Blackboard Day’. This is one in a series of events to mark the centenary of our school. The period costumes were amazing, thank you to all the parents for their support with getting the children ready. The staff got into the spirit too and transformed their classrooms with no computers, blackboards, finger nail checks, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic drills.

  Many thanks to Tesco for their refreshments for the children and Maxwell Freight for the lorry for our parade. Thank you to Paul McErlane for the wonderful photographs he took. Thank you to all the parents, local businesses and the wider community who lined the route as the Maxwell Titanic lorry surrounded by the entire school in period clothing marched up the Main Street to the beat of the music. The community atmosphere was fantastic and the children, staff and parents had a wonderful time.

  Mr Traynor said, “It was wonderful to see such a great turnout for our parade today, the children and staff had certainly entered into the spirit of the day and the event was indeed a fitting tribute to mark the hundredth anniversary of outstanding education provided by St. Joseph’s Primary school and Nursery Unit past and present.”