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

• Hallowe'en Celebrations

  Fri 28 Oct 2022

  Watch Out .... lots of spooky things going on in St Joseph's today!  

  HAVE A SAFE AND RELAXING HALLOWE'EN BREAK!

   

  PS Our witch was called Glinda this year!

  

• 'Drop Inn' Shoe Box appeal

  Thu 27 Oct 2022

  Congratulations and thank you to everyone who made a shoebox for our recent 'Drop Inn' Appeal.  The 'Drop Inn' charity was just bowled over by your generosity. Thank you!

  

• October Golden Assemblies

  Wed 26 Oct 2022

  Today we celebrated our October Golden Assemblies.

   

  Mrs McConkey's Year 2 class led our Year 1-3 Assembly and Mrs Matthew's Year 5 class led our Year 4-7 Assembly.  The children were excellent and their assemblies informed and entertained us with readings, drama and  music and delivered very timely messages.

   

  Pupils were presented with certificates for Pupil of the Month, Accelerated Reading and the newly elected Digital Leaders 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!

  

• Hallowe'en Costume Swap

  Tue 25 Oct 2022

  We were delighted with the response to our Hallowe'en Costume Swap.  The Eco-Committee raised £210 which will be used to purchase a new water butt and some plants to enhance our outdoor science classroom.  Well done and thank you to everyone who donated a costume and helped with this recycling project.

  

• Maths Week Ireland

  Fri 21 Oct 2022

  This week all classes have been taking part in activities and events to mark Maths Week Ireland.  We have been taking part in online quizzes, problem solving tasks, outdoor activities, ICT tasks and researching mathematicians all in an effort to promote a positive attitude towards the learning of maths!

  

• Book Week NI

  Wed 19 Oct 2022

  On 'Love your Library Day' during Book Week NI all Year 5 pupils had a visit from our local librarian Claire. Claire read the children lots of Hallowe'en stories which they really enjoyed listening to and chatting about. We are also delighted that our class visits to Crumlin library will be recommencing in November and look forward to making the best of the facilities available.  Many thanks Claire for the visit and the Book Week NI book marks.

  #welovetoread

  

• Erasmus Trip to Bordeaux

  Fri 14 Oct 2022

  On Sunday 9th October 6 of our Year 7 pupils along with 3 of our teachers headed off to Bordeaux in France as part of our Erasmus Programme. Our second Erasmus project with our partner schools in UK, Spain, Denmark and France, is called ‘Building a Better World’. Erasmus is a British Council Initiative which allows schools throughout Europe to be partnered together to work on different topics and activities.

   

  In Bordeaux the St Joseph's clan  joined other visiting schools from Spain, Bath (England) and Denmark for a 5 day educational visit.  All involved had an amazing time and there were a few very tried boys and girls (and teachers too) who returned back to school on Thursday afternoon. 

   

  We look forward to our next partnership meeting when the schools involved will be coming to visit and stay with us in March 2023.  

  

• Fire Drill

  Fri 14 Oct 2022

  Our Term 1 Fire Drill was completed on Friday to mark the end of our Child Protection and Safeguarding Week in school.

  

• World Mental Health

  Fri 14 Oct 2022

  Many thanks to Francesca Verzelli from Action Mental Health who delivered staff development on Mindset - a Mental and Emotional Health and Wellbeing Awareness Programme - to all teaching staff today as part of the programme for our Safeguarding Week and World Mental Health Week. 

  

• Friends of St Joseph's AGM

  Thu 13 Oct 2022

  The Friends of St Joseph's held their AGM on Thursday 13th October.  Our elected committe for 2022/23 are:

   

  Chairperson Mrs Jennifer Kerr

  Vice Chairperson: Mrs Rachel Lee

  Treasurer/Secretary: Ms Jennifer McLernon

  Teacher Rep: Mrs Louise O'Doherty and Mr Stephen McCullagh

   

  We would like to thank all those who came along on the evening.  Events planned for November are our Smartie Tube fundraiser and we hope to hold our annual Christmas Draw in December.

   

  If you feel you could help in some way, please telephone the office and leave your name and a contact number and a member of the Friends Committee will be in touch.

   

  Thank you for your continued support!