Today Year 5 had a Fire Safety Visit.  It is also possible to organise a Home Fire Safety Check

A Home Fire Safety Check is a visit to the home to provide advice on how to stay safe from fire.

Each visit will be carried out by at least two staff from NIFRS who will be wearing NIFRS uniform and will carry a NIFRS photographic identification card.

During the visit they will either fit a smoke alarm or show you how to test your existing smoke alarm, explain the potential fire risks in your home, provide fire safety advice and explain the importance of having a night time fire safety routine and a fire escape plan.

The visit will take up to 40 minutes. Sometimes it is useful for a family member, friend, neighbour or care worker to also be present so that they can assist with the advice.

To apply for a Home Fire Safety Check please follow the link below to complete the form.

https://www.nifrs.org/home/staying-safe/community-safety/home-fire-safety/home-fire-safety/home-fire-safety-check-form/

In the Allianz National Footbal League it was Antrim v Westmeath on Sunday 27th March. Five of our Year 7 boys had the opportunity to travel to Corrigan Park on the day to partake in the Cumann na mBunscol Half Times Games. 

They were a credit to their parents, school and clubs playing with great skill and team work.  Congratulations boys - the medals look lovely and were very well deserved! 

As a Titanic Belfast partnership School we were asked to participate in an art project to mark Titamic Belfast turning 10.

Our Year 7 children drew a picture related to Titanic (the ship and the city).  All our Year 7 images will form part of a larger collage and we cannot wait to see the end result.

# TitanicBelfast #Education

Many thanks to Mrs Anne Doran (Catholic Schools' Trustee Service) for all her work with our school over the past 7 years.  Anne is now retiring after 45 years dedicated to Catholic Education.  She joined us for the cutting of  our First Confession Cake ..  followed by a presentation from Ava (youngest pupil in our nursery school) and Lewis (oldest pupil in school) just to say thank you.  Good Luck Anne .... wishing you a long, healthy and happy retirement form all at St Joseph's!

Congratulation to our wonderful Primary 3 boys and girls who celebrated the Sacrament of Reconciliation with Father Colm today, Wednesday 23rd March, in Mater Dei Church.  They were just amazing - a real credit to their families and their school.  Well done boys and girls. 

Today we celebrated the Feast Day of St Joseph in school.  St Joseph is the patron saint of our school.  Our Faith Group prepared an assembly for our whole school - it told the story of St Joseph.  We all got to view the assembly virtually in our own classrooms.  Thank you to the Faith Group and Mrs Loughran for sharing this with us today.

Today we celebarted the feast day of our patron saint, St Patrick - there was an amazing sea of green throughout the school.

Happy St Patrick's Day from everyone at St Joseph's!

Congratulations to our Year 2 pupils on their amazing St. Patrick's Day Assembly.  The singing, dancing, drama and music were excellent really made us feel very proud to come from Ireland and celebrate our national saint in style.  Their show just added to our Green Day celebrations and was shared virtually with all classes throughout the school.  A big thank you to our Year 2 team who prepared the children so well.  Congrats again to all involved!

Today it was the turn of Miss Walsh's Year 7 pupils to have a taster session in Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL).  EFL is an emerging field in which horses and humans work together as guides and facilitators to help people enhance their life skills, improve emotional fitness and increase self-awareness.  The pupils had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the very relaxing experience thanks to the expertise of Simone and her team at Tullynewbank Stables.  

Today we celebrated success in our Accelerated Reading Programme achieved over the past 6 weeks.  The programme is going from strength to strength and the collective number of words being read is just amazing!

Many congratulations to those boys and girls who have now read 100,000 words or more; to those 12 boys and girls for reaching 500,000 words so far this year and to Connlaith and Nathan (Year 7),and Sophia, Alexander, Ella and Eoin (Year 6) on becoming new Word Millionaires this year.

Keep up the great effort - fabulous commitment shown here to your reading!