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

• Safety Bus Visits St. Joseph's

  Wed 09 Mar 2022

  The Translink Safety Bus visited St. Joseph’s today.  The Safety Officers educated pupils on the many safety features on the buses, including the importance of wearing seatbelts and the reason for on board CCTV. They used a range of videos and education packs to bring issues such as anti-social behaviour and vandalism and their effects to life.

  They also addressed general bus etiquette including signalling for the driver to stop, letting people get off the bus first, respecting other passengers, putting tickets in the bin, not putting bags on seats, moving up the bus to create space at the front and where to stand in preparation for disembarking.

  Our Year 7 pupils enjoyed the interactive and interesting way that the Safety Bus team demonstrated safe use of buses, the safety features on board and how best to represent your school when getting a public bus.

  

• Healthy Kidz Programme

  Tue 08 Mar 2022

  As part of our Health and Wellbeing Programme our Year 6 and 7 pupils got to participate in the Healthy Kidz Programme funded by Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council on Tuesday 8th March.

   

  The programme aims to enhance the physical, emotional, and general wellbeing of all those involved.  The children really enjoyed the workshops.  Many thanks to Amy for facilitating the delivery of the programme. 

  

• The Masked Reader

  Tue 08 Mar 2022

  Today we held our Masked Reader Competition.  There was great excitement throughout the school as all the boys and girls tried to guess who the mystery readers were.  There were lots of interesting guesses ..... but a big congratulations to those boys and girls who guessed correctly.  All correct guesses were entered into a draw for a £20 book gift voucher. 

   

  Our winners were:

   

  Nursery - Colm O'Hare

  P1-P3 - Aleigha Neale (P1)

  P4-P7 - Olly Doran (P6)

   

  Congratulations to all our winners and a big thank you also to our teachers and classroom assistants who donned their masks and read extracts from some of our favourite books! 

  #welovereading

  

• The Fire Service Visit the Nursery

  Mon 07 Mar 2022

  What fun was had by the children in the nursery unit when the firemen arrived with their fire engine on Monday.  The boys and girls got to learn all about the work of the fire service, sit in the fire engine and squirt water from the fire hose.  A great day of learning .... and lots of fun too! 

  

• Year 3 Pizza Party

  Fri 04 Mar 2022

  To reinforce their learning on fractions Primary 3 had a pizza party.  They were able to divide the pizza into equal parts.  They know that half means 2 equal parts and quarter means four equal parts.   They challenged themselves by using their problem solving skills. For example, how many halves are there in 4 pizzas?  How many slices of pizza do we need for our class? How many quarters are in 4 pizzas? 

   

  And the best part of all  ... eating the slices of pizza after all this hard work.  Delicious! 

  

• World Book Day

  Thu 03 Mar 2022

  To celebrate World Book Day this year in St. Joseph’s, each year group will be celebrating the love of reading in many different ways.

   

  This year we will be introducing The Masked Reader with Book Voucher prizes for the lucky winners.

   

  We will be also be celebrating the hard work many authors have done to help us enjoy the magic and wonder of reading their books.

  Why not visit www.worldbookday.com to help your child enjoy World Book Day and to  support their reading development generally.

  Enjoy video books for young children in Big Little Book Corner.

   

  Discover the Top 100 books to read for all ages.

   

  Gain some inspiration from ‘Real-life authors’ to become writers in the future.

   

  Looking for new book ideas for your child? Explore the Parent Book Finder section to find out about recommended books for your child to read.

  And much more…

   

  

• Celebrating Confirmation

  Thu 03 Mar 2022

  Congratulations to our Year 7 pupils who celebrated the sacrament of Confirmation in Mater Dei Church on 3rd March.  We pray that the Holy Spirit will bless and guide them today and in the days and weeks ahead as they continue on their educational journey.

  

• Ash Wednesday

  Wed 02 Mar 2022

  Today was Ash Wednesday.  It marks the beginning of Lent.  We started the day with a virtual gathering lead by Mr Traynor.  Then Father Colm held separate services in the school hall for pupils in Year Groups 4 - 7.  Pupils had an opportunity to reflect on how best they were going to prepare for Lent and Father Colm then distributed ashes to the pupils and staff.  We welcome this period of Lent to help us best prepare for the season of Easter.

  

• Fun On Pancake Tuesday

  Tue 01 Mar 2022

  Tasty treats all around on pancake Tuesday - the smell of baking throughout the school was just amazing!

   

  A special delivery was also made to Mr Traynor in his office by the the Primary 1 birthday girl Oonagh - the smile on his face says it all!

  

• February Virtual Assemblies

  Fri 25 Feb 2022

  This week we marked the end of another month in school with our virtual Golden Assemblies.  This month it was the turn of Mr McGrattan's Year 2 class to lead our Year 1-3 Assembly and Mrs Downey's Year 5 pupils to lead our Year 4-7 Assembly.

   

  Mr McGrattan's boys and girls delivered an assembly on the theme of 'Rights Respecting Schools' and the assembly from Mrs Downey's boys and girls enabled us all to focus on how we can best prepare for the season of Lent.  All of the children were wonderful representatives for their class and school.

   

  We also had time to sing Happy Birthday to all of our February boys and girls as well as present our monthly awards and deliver some important messages.  Well done everyone - it's nearly March!