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

• Macmillan Coffee Morning

  Fri 30 Sep 2022

  Many, many thanks to all who organised and supported our Coffee Morning for Macmillian Cancer Care. There were so many beautiful cakes, tray bakes and buns on display. There was a great atmosphere in the hall with so many staff, volunteers from 'The Friends of St Joseph's', grandparents, parents, past pupils and friends from the local community who popped in to show their support.

   

  We are delighted to announce to date over £1,100 has been raised for this very worthy cause.  We will announce the final total next week.  Again many thanks to all - what a team effort and what a great morning!   

   

  #greatteameffort  #welldoneandthanks 

  

• September Golden Assemblies

  Wed 28 Sep 2022

  Today we celebrated our September Golden Assemblies.

   

  Mrs O'Doherty's Year 3 class led our Year 1-3 Assembly on the theme of :A New School Year' and Mrs Downey's Year 5 class led our Year 4-7 Assembly on 'New Beginnings'.  The children were excellent and their assemblies entertained us with readings, drama and musicand delivered very timely messages about our new school year.

   

  Pupils were presented with certificates for Pupil of the Month and the newly elected Pupil Council were presentes with their badges.  We also had a number of pupils who brought in medals, certificates and trophies from home to celebrate achievement outside of school.  

   

  Well done to all our boys and girls - we are very proud of you all!

  

• European Day of Languages

  Mon 26 Sep 2022

  Today we celebrated European Day of Languages.  Pupils engaged in a variety of activities; there was art, singing, dancing, dressing up and lots of children learning and speaking a variety of European languages. A fun day of learning was had by all!

  

• Election Time

  Fri 23 Sep 2022

  Election fever hit St Joseph's this week with the first of out two election campaigns for Pupils Council and Eco Council.  Next week we have elections for Digital Leaders and the Faith Group - Congratulations to all those who have been elected so far and good luck to all next weeks candidates.

  

• National Coding Week

  Wed 21 Sep 2022

  To celebrate National Coding Week our Year 3 pupils took part in an excellent workshop delivered virtually by The Nerve Centre.  These workshops were an excellent opportunity to get creative with our pupils, have some fun, whilst learning key coding skills.  Well done Year 3 on your space themed video games!

  

• Presentation to Father Colm

  Fri 16 Sep 2022

  Many congratulations to Father Colm on becoming Canon Colm during the Summer Holidays.  Today we had a surprise presentation for him in school to say thank you for all his work and a big congratulations!  He enjoyed chatting to the boys and girls, sipped over a nice cup of tea with some of the staff and presented a few certificates to those members of staff who have been awarded their Mental Health First aid Certificates.  A busy morning but a very enjoyable one.  Congratulations again and well done boys and girls!

   

    

  

• Blessing of the Classrooms

  Thu 15 Sep 2022

  Many thanks to father Colm for celebrating our Beginning of Year Mass in Mater Dei Church on Wednesday with our Year 4-7 pupils and then calling in to bless all the pupils and their classrooms in Years 1-3.

  

• Prefect Duties Begin!

  Mon 12 Sep 2022

  Our Year 7 pupils have made a great start to the year and have embraced their various duties with great determination.  They have been monitoring the lights and doors, maintaining the ICT and Computer Suites, tidying the AR shelves, managing playground equipment, litter picking, paper recycling and ensuring the science and music trollies are well organised,neat and tidy.  This is proving to be a great help to us all - Keep up the fab work! 

  

• Primary 1 Visit Mr Traynor's Office

  Thu 08 Sep 2022

  Our Primary 1 pupils have been touring our school to help familiarise them with our school surroundings.  Today they popped in to say hello to Mr Traynor in his office and he was delighted to welcome them all.  Such wonderful smiles on their faces - we wish them lots of happy years and great memories as they journey throughout our school.

  

• Music Examination Success

  Wed 07 Sep 2022

  Congratulations to our wonderful musicians who were awarded graded certificates from the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music and Trinity College London in flute, trumpet and strings.  What wonderful talent we have for our orchestra this year Well done!