Mr McKenna's Year 5 class were very excited to meet this year's Roots of Empathy Baby Oisin.

Along with Mrs McDonnell they spent time learning about all the things he can do and how he can tell his mummy how he is feeling. It was a lovely afternoon.  

We look forward to our next visit from Baby Oisin and his mum!

Many thanks to Canon Colm who called into school today to bless us, our schoolbags and our classrooms to mark the beginning of a new school year.  

Mr Stephen Kelly from the Marine Conversation Society visited our school today and delivered a very informative assembly to our Year 5-7 pupils. 

The assembly focused on on marine litter, how litter reaches the ocean, how it can cause harm to wildlife, and how we can all do our bit to help reduce the plastic tide.  The presentation was followed by a question and answer session.  Many thanks Stephen!

Our Year 7 pupils who will be travelling to Bath in England in October as part of our Erasmus Project have just met with Mr Traynor and completed their pupil profiles.  These will be exchanged with the host families so that everyone can make contact and connect before we arrive on Sunday 2nd October. 

The boys and girls travelling are really looking forward to the trip .... so too are Mr McMullan, Mr McKenna and Mrs Downey who will be accompanying them.  Bath here we come!

Many congratulations to Mrs Kelly on her Retirement from St Joseph's after 40 years dedicated service to our school.  During this time Mrs Kelly has held many roles to include Building Supervisor, Lunchtime Supervisor and Breakfast Club Supervisor.  She has indeed been a valued member of our school family who we will miss dearly.  After a special break, balloons, speeches, cards, cheers, cake and hugs the school choir sang for Mrs Kelly in the foyer of our school. 

We wish Mrs Kelly every health and happiness to enjoy what we hope will be a retirement filled with lots of love, luck and laughter.  Enjoy every minute Mrs kelly - you deserve it!

Many thanks to our parishioners Bill and Eileen McLeave who sent in a set of Rosary Beads for all the children in Years 5-7 to celebrated Tha Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Friday 8th September.  Your kindness is very much appreciated.  Thank you!

Thank you!

Many thanks to the Friends of St Joseph's for their cheque presentation of £6,000 towards our school funds!  We are delighhted with the total presented and will put it to good use to purchase much needed resources for the children in our school.  

Friends AGM

The friends of St Joseph's will be hosting their AGM of Wednesday 21st September at 6.00pm in St Joseph's.  This is a great opportunity to become actively involved and help build  upon much needed resources which will benefit all the   children in the school.  Our PTA is a fun and lively organisation who have successfully raised thousands of pounds to purchase equipment and learning resources for the children in our school.  At the meeting the committee will be selected and plans for the  upcoming year will be discussed.  Please come along and support your school!

First Fundraiser of the Year - BLINGO!

Also for the Friends first fundraising event this year get your bling on and join us for a night of Blingo with a sprinkle of  sparkle in St Claire's Hall Glenavy on Friday 6th October! Ticket order forms will be sent home in schoolbags very soon.  We hope lots of you will join us and make our first fundraiser of the year a resounding success!  Bring your drinks and nibbles, gather up your friends and come along for some fun and the chance to win some super prizes! 

It was wonderful to see all of the children back in school again for a new school year.  Everyone looked so well in their school uniforms and were so well prepared for the year ahead.  There were lots of smiles and fiendship rekindled.  A special welcome to all our Primary 1 pupils and those who join year groups from new schools.  We celebrated being together again by hosting our first assemblies of the school year where we were able to come together in our school hall.  It was a very special occassion. 

We wish all our pupils, staff and parents every blessing, good health and happiness for the year ahead!