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

• Author Al Mennie Visits St Joseph's

  Fri 31 May 2019

  Today Mrs Sheppard’s Primary 3 class and Mrs Loughran Primary 4 classes had a visit from the author Al Mennie.

  Al who is best known as a big wave surfer all over the world lives in Portrush.  In March he published his latest book called ‘Confident Kris’ aimed at children dealing with anxiety.  Both Mrs Sheppard and Mrs Loughran’s class have been carrying out a series of activities related to the book and the character Kris. They have been discussing anxiety as an emotion and situations that the children may find difficult in everyday life.  Today the children were able to show case their work and engage in a question and answer session with the author.

  

• Music Recital

  Fri 24 May 2019

  Congratulations to all those boys and girls who took part in our Music Recital in the school assembly hall.  We enjoyed performances from our Key Stage 2 Senior Choir, School Orchestra, Traditional Group, Guitarists, individual soloists and our school competition choir.

   

  What amazing talent on show.  Many thanks to Mrs McDonnell and Mrs Matthews for all their hard work with the boys and girls throughout the year. 

   

  Well done to all involved!

  

• Year 6 Wellbeing Art Project

  Thu 23 May 2019

  Fane Valley, one of Northern Ireland’s leading agricultural companies gave our Year 6 children the opportunity of working together to design some animal sculptures. 

  The creative educational project is in association with Arts & Business NI and is in conjunction with Arts Care.  As part of their new strategic ‘Reach Out’ project to engage with local schools, the farming cooperative secured the services of some Arts Care artists.  Clare and Beth carried out an ‘Animal Sculpture Workshop’ with Mrs Wray’s class.  The children designed, created and painted farm animals.  Children used this opportunity to think about their mental health and well-being. 

  By engaging in art activities, children were able to relax, talk and be creative in a colourful, fun way.

  

• Mr McGrattan's Year 2 Golden May Assembly

  Tue 21 May 2019
  Congratulations to Mr McGrattan's Year 2 children who performed at our Year 1 and 2 May Golden Assembly.  Their assembly focused on the story of Mary and was a very appropriate choice for the month of May.

  

• Year 4 Celebrate First Holy Communion

  Mon 20 May 2019
  Congratulations to our Year 4 pupils who celebrated their First Holy Communion on Saturday 18th May.  They all looked fantastic and played their parts so well.  Thanks to our school choir for their lovely music on the day and to all our staff and the Friend's of St. Joseph's who helped with refreshments in the school hall after the service. 

  

• Youth Zone Goes Green

  Wed 15 May 2019
  On Tuesday 14th May our Youth Zone After Schools Club went 'green' for the evening.  We had lots of volunteers who came along to help with the many outdoor jobs we had to complete around the school.  The weather was kin to us and the lovely sunshine helped build up quite a thirst - good thing we had plenty of refreshments on standby!

  

• Friends of St. Joseph's Fun Night

  Mon 13 May 2019
  Many thanks to everyone who came along and supported our Friend's Fun Night. It was a fantastic occasion.  Thank you to all who helped in any way to make this night so special for the families in our school community

  

• Amazon Jungle Show

  Wed 08 May 2019

   

   

  Catherine from the Amazon Jungle Show was in school today to deliver a presentation to educate and entertain our children in the Nursery, Year 3 and Year 6 on the world of reptiles.

  The presentation covered the curriculum on the rainforest canopy, mini beasts, habitats and conservation while children had the opportunity to handle and feel the different texture of reptiles, to include a lizard, snake, frog, gecko, spider, tortoise and chameleon.  Mr Traynor even held the snake!

   

  

• Fitness Freddy Visits St. Joseph's

  Tue 07 May 2019
  What an energetic day we had when Fitness Freddy arrived at St. Joseph's.  He had everyone in school up on their feet pulling some groovy dance moves on the assembly hall floor.  He finished the day by hosting a Building Bonds evening session where mums and dads could come along and join in the fun.  What a great way to get active and promote exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle.

  

• Crumlin Glen Engagement Project

  Fri 03 May 2019

  St Joseph’s hosted the first workshop for our Crumlin Glen Engagement Project on Wednesday 1^st May.

  We were joined by a class from Gaelscoil Ghleann Darach and a class from Crumlin Integrated Primary School.

  Over the next few weeks we are going to work together to design a natural play area for Crumlin Glen.  We were working with an artist to look at designs from other parks before making our own designs.  Next week we will visit the Glen and then we will get to make models of our designs.

  After the workshops are completed our designs will be sent to the planners to be created and built up at the Glen.