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

• Nursery Christmas Banquet

  Thu 17 Dec 2020
  Our Nursery pupils came over to the school canteen today to enjoy a Christmas Nursery Banquet - they thoroughly enjoyed it and left lots of empty plates  Happy Boys and Girls indeed!

  

• Congratulations to our Newly Elected Council Members.

  Wed 16 Dec 2020

  CONGRATULATIONS

  TO OUR NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBERS!!

   

  WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL ON SOME EXCITING NEW PROJECTS IN THE NEW YEAR!

   

  Elected Candidates 2020-2021

   

  	PUPIL COUNCIL	ECO-COUNCIL	FAITH COUNCIL	DIGITAL COUNCIL
  Yr4 AL	Zoe Adair	Sophia Rooney	Molly McCaffrey	N/A
  Yr4 DD	Aidan Regan Ronan Diamond	Bobby O’Hara	Karol Downey	N/A
  Yr4 COB/EOS	Charlie Mallon	Isla Mullan	Emma-Louise Shannon Matthew O’Brien	N/A
  Yr5 CM	Rio Fleming	Lorcán Higgins	Olivia Mc Ardle-Fullerton	Eoin Connolly
  Yr5 SMcK	Sophia Wilson	Alex McKenna	Eabha O’Brien	Alexander McSorley
  Yr5 KOB	Darcy Phelan	Olivia Boyd	Oliver Robb Shona McAleese	Jacob Pennie
  Yr6 JC	Connlaith Muldoon	Finn Lawlor	Brendan Maguire	Emily Rice Darragh Birch
  Yr6 SMcC	Folakemi Ajlore	Caitlin Diamond	Finian Dunne	Beth McLauglin
  Yr6 AW	Daniel McVeigh	Pierre-Antoine McErlane	Lucy Marley	Cillian Baker
  Yr7 EA	Sophia Allely	Katie-Rose Wallace Brooke Lenaghan	Molly O’Toole	Evie Mc Guinness Nathan Smyth
  Yr7 HW	Lewis McKenna	Keira Duffy	Jodie Close	Declan Lee Cliodhna Kearney
  Yr7 MMcC	Cian Bell	Donal Ward	Rachel McKenna	Ewan McBride

   

   

• Children's Christmas Draw

  Wed 16 Dec 2020

  Congratulations to the winners of our pupils Christmas Draw.  They were:

   

  Nursery - Grainne Reynolds

  Foundation Stage - Leah Lockard

  Key Stage 1 - Lucia Rooney

  Key Stage 2 - Nathan McCann 

   

  Many thanks to Oliver's daddy who baked gingerbread men for the children in his Year 3 class.  What a lovely treat.  Happy Christmas!

  

• Friends of St. Joseph's Cheque Presentation

  Mon 14 Dec 2020
  Jennifer from the Friends of St. Joseph's called into school this morning to present Mr. Traynor with a cheque for £5,500.  This certainly was a lovely surprise and a wonderful Christmas present for the school.  The money presented will be used to support our Christmas activities this year and on the purchase of emergent technologies for our school.  A massive thank you from all here in St. Joseph's!

  

• Christmas Panto and Jumper Day

  Fri 11 Dec 2020
  Pupils were entertained today to a virtual panto 'Beauty and the Beast' streamed live from the South West Regional College.  They all looked so well in their Christmas attire - a great selection of socks, dresses, jumpers and hats to name but a few were on display. 

  

• Santa Visits the Nursery

  Thu 10 Dec 2020
  What a surprise the children in the Nursery Unit had today when Santa came along to visit.  There was so much excitement and lots of fun to be had by all! 

  

• Christmas Dinner

  Thu 10 Dec 2020
  Today our pupils had their Christmas Dinner in school.  Pupils enjoyed their meal in the school canteen in their class bubbles.  Many thanks to Mrs Weldon and all the canteen staff on catering for such a large number of pupils and serving up a great Christmas treat.

  

• Christmas Colouring Books & Pencils from Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council

  Wed 09 Dec 2020
  Mrs Lawlor's and Mrs Sheppards's Year 3 classes were delighted to receive Christmas Colouring Books and pencils for Year 3 form Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.  Cheers!

  

• Certificate of Commendation in Texaco Children's Art Competition

  Tue 08 Dec 2020
  Congratulations to Matthew O'Brien who was highly commended in the 66th Texaco Children's Art Competition.  This year there were ovber 25,000 entries to the competition - therefore we are very proud of Matthew at having been chosen for a commendation.  Well done Matthew!   

  

• We have our First Accelerated Reading Word Millionaire for 2020/21!

  Tue 08 Dec 2020
  Congratulations to all our Accelerated Reading November Award Winners.  A special congratulations to Mae McNamee (Mrs Campbell's Year 6 Class) who has become our first Accelerated Reading Word Millionaire this year.  Well done Mae!