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

• Faith Group Judge Easter Colouring Competition

  Mon 07 Apr 2025

  Our Faith Group had a difficult time selecting the entries from St. Joseph's to be sent to the Missio Ireland Easter Colouring Competition.  They worked well in groups to choose the final entries to be sent off for judging.  Well done to all who entered and to our Faith Group for their judging skills and promotion of Lenten values throughout this special season in the lead up to Easter.

  

• Year 1 & 2 Principal Awards

  Fri 04 Apr 2025

  Congratulations to our girls and boys in Primary 1 and Primary 2 who received the weekly Headteacher Award for a variety of wonderful traits.  We are very proud of them all! 

  

• Farewell and Best Wishes

  Fri 04 Apr 2025

  Congratulations to Mr. McCartan, St. Mary’s University College student, on the completion of his recent teaching practice placement in Mrs. Downey’s Year 5 Class. We thank him for all his work over the past seven weeks, and wish him every success in the future.

  

• Time Steps 'Viking Life' Education Programme

  Thu 03 Apr 2025

  Stephanie from Time Steps visited  school on Tuesday 23rd April to deliver an interactive workshop with our Year 6 pupils.

   

  During the course of the workshop, pupils had an opportunity to learns lots of Viking facts, engage in storytelling and drama activities and view Viking artefacts to include some weapons and shields they used during the course of their battles and journeys.

   

  A very interactive, informative and enjoyable workshop for our Year 6 pupils on their topic of 'The Vikings'.  Thank you Stephanie!

  

• Creggan 7-a-side Gaelic Football Tournament

  Thu 03 Apr 2025

  Congratulations to the Boys' Gaelic Football Team who travelled to Creggan to take part in the SW Antrim 7-a-side Gaelic Football Tournament. 

  There was great team work and skill displayed and the boys did St Joseph's proud.

  Thank you to Creggan for hosting such a great tournament.

   

  Well done boys!

  

• Year 3 & Year 7 Paired Reading Programme

  Tue 01 Apr 2025

  Our Year 3 pupils have been paired with a Year 7 pupil for the duration of our Paired Reading Programme. The children engaged in three half-hour paired reading sessions per week.   Year 3 children, with the support of their Year 7 partner, selected their Paired Reading books from a stock of books especially chosen for the programme. 

   

  Paired Reading which has two distinct parts - Reading Together and Reading Alone - has been shown to have excellent results for helping children to read, enjoy reading and to develop a positive attitude to reading. 

   

  Those children involved with the programme did indeed have an enjoyable and rewarding literacy experience.  We were delighted with the mutual benefits this paired reading programme has had for both our Year 3 and Year 7 pupils and were delighted to present all those involved with their certificates today.

   

  Congratulation girls and boys - well done!

   

  "A word after a word after a word is power."

  

• Mother's Day Coffee Morning

  Fri 28 Mar 2025

  This Sunday 30th March is Mother's Day.  Today we marked this special event to honour those special ladies in our school community by hosting a Coffee Morning in school. 

   

  Many thanks to the Friends of St. Joseph's who sponsored the treats and to Rik in the canteen for baking the delicious fresh scones and many traybakes on offer.

   

  A Very Happy Mother's Day from all at St Joseph's!

  

• Year 1 & 2 March Principal Awards

  Fri 28 Mar 2025

  Congratulations to our girls and boys in Primary 1 and Primary 2 who received the weekly Headteacher Award during the month of April for a variety of wonderful traits.  We are very proud of them all! 

  

• National Scribble Day

  Thu 27 Mar 2025

  National Scribble day is based on the book 'I'm Not Just a Scribble' by Diane Alber.  The book has a great moral about kindness, while encouraging children to create art regardless of their artistic ability.  After all, 'Great art starts with a Scribble!'.  

   

  Today on National Scribble Day our Nursery and Year 3 children listened to the story 'I'm Not Just a Scribble' which introduced them to the character of Scribble.  The children were then encouraged to create their very own scribble characters artwork.  Have a look at some of the wonderful characters they have created!

  

• Belfast City Marathon Cheque Presentation

  Thu 27 Mar 2025

  Belfast City Marathon ran a design a T-shirt competition and pupils from our school entered.  Pupils had to design a T-shirt with a running theme.  We had hundreds of entries and the standard of designs was excellent.  Olivia Lee from Mr McCarthy's class was awarded 3^rd prize from all entries in the entire competition.  She will receive a £50 voucher for Sports Direct and she will also choose £50 worth of sports equipment for our pupils to use at lunchtime.  Well done Olivia!