Children from the Nursery Unit are taking part in a 6 week programme delivered by Antrim Playball.  The children loved their first session today - just look at them walk, run, crawl, jump, and climb to name but a few.  And by the big smiles on their faces they had lots of fun too!

Children in the Nursery and Year 1 attended a nurture session with Fiona-Marie Devlin from the EA.

This was a great first session in which the children developed their turn-taking skills, their listening skills and their use of their gentle hands. Fiona-Marie taught the children 3 important rules: firstly to stick together, secondly to use kind hands and thirdly to have fun! 

Thank you very much Fiona-Marie and we look forward to our next session.

Today, 6th January, we celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany by watching mass online streamed live from St Joseph's Church Glenavy. 

The Epiphany is a special date when we celebrate how a star led the Magi - also known as the Three kings or the Wise Men - to visit the baby Jesus after he had been born.  Today our Faith Group added the Three Wise Men to our school crib to mark this special occassion. 

A prayer for this Special Day:

Father of light,
Today you reveal to people of faith your Word made flesh.
Your light is strong, your love is sure.
Draw us beyond the limits of this world into your eternal life.
We make this prayer through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Please find below a link to our Christmas News @ St Joseph's for 2022. 

We hope you enjoy our new SWAY format. 

https://sway.office.com/TDabqyQ0PBWzhIlG?ref=Link

We would like to wish our school community a happy, peaceful and safe Christmas break and every blessing for good health and happiness in 2023!

From all at St Joseph's!

What a wonderful treat to finish Term 1 in school ..... a music demonstration from the EA (NE Region) Staff Orchestra. 

The perfomance began with a Christmas Story set to music and was followed by a programme which outlined the instruments of the orchestra in a fun but informative style.  There were many opportunities to listen to some beautiful Christmas carols and music being played.  Indeed there were also opportunities for some audience participation playing a variety of percussion instruments.  The orchestra even had their own conductor, specially chosen from our Year 2 pupils.

Many thanks to Mr Lowry and his team for coming along and sharing this magical Christmas performance with our pupils and staff. 

Merry Christmas! 

What an entrance Santa made to St Joseph's for our whole school community on Christmas Jumper Day. 

Santa's sleigh was in getting repaired this morning for Christmas Eve so he decided to use Mr Kieran Winters Limousine Company for that added touch of comfort.

Thanks Santa for coming along and meeting and chatting to the boys and girls - they loved it.  It just made our Christmas Jumper Day so special.

FRIENDS OF ST JOSEPH'S CHRISTMAS BALLOT

Many thanks to all those who bought tickets to support the Friends of St Joseph's Christmas Ballot. 

The draw took place in school today with representatives from acrosss the school and the Friends of St Joseph' s present to draw the lucky winning tickets. 

The winning tickets were:

1^st Prize           Farrah Bennett            Apple Ipad, Oaktree Day Care

2^nd Prize          Bernie Duffield            Lily Johnson Meal  & 1 Overnight in Oakfield

3^rd Prize           Ciaran O'Connor         Electrical Bundle by Tesco Crumlin

4^th Prize           Teaghan Hailstone      Nando’s Family Meal & Cinema Voucher

5^th Prize            Ella Bunting                £40 Fiddlers Inn Meal Voucher

6^th Prize            Paul Quinn                  £30 The Chip Factory Voucher

7^th Prize           James Dunleavy          Luxury Christmas Hamper, Eurospar Crumlin

8^th Prize           Sam Demaine              Christmas Fruit Hamper, Eurospar Crumlin

Many thanks to all those who donated prizes ...... your support is much appreciated! 

And ...... many thanks to all those involved in the Friends of St Joseph's.  

All monies raised will be used for the benefit of all the children in the school. 

Children's Christmas Hamper

Congratulations to Áine Scannell, winner of the Children's Christmas Hamper.  Áine is pictured here with her teacher, Miss Walsh and Mrs Doran who drew the winning ticket. 

Congratulation Áine and Enjoy!