11/03/24 3rd Place Finish For Tag Rugby Team In Area Tournament! Yesterday evening a team of 5 girls and 4 boys from St Joseph's travelled all the way to Brymore Academy in Cannington to compete in this years Sedgemoor Area Tag Rugby Tournament. With very little experience of playing this game other than a 45 minute crash course delivered by Mr Fisher the week before, the team performed amazingly well! Their performances got better and better with every game and by the end of the competition we were holding our own with the very best schools at the event. With 12 teams taking part, a third place finish is just remarkable and credit has to go to every one of the children who took part in the competition. Your ability to adapt to playing a new sport was just fantastic to watch and I'm sure that if we attend future events, you will continue to impress. WELL DONE EVERYONE!!

07/02/24 GLORIOUS 2ND PLACE IN SEDGEMOOR AREA CROSS COUNTRY! 

Well I just don't know what to say other than a huge well done to all the children who have participated in any of the Sedgemoor cross country races this year. With a magnificent turn out of over 55 junior children in the latest race held at King Alfred's, the team have moved up another position in the league standing and finish the series in a magnificent 2nd place! A brilliant performance once again from everyone. The data for the last race of the season and final league standing can be seen below and there will undoubtedly be a number of our children who will be selected to represent the Sedgemoor Area in the County Finals next moth so watch this space!

3^rd Cross Country February 2024

King Alfreds

The Stats

Total Athletes: 334

Number of Girl Athletes: 140

Number of Boy Athletes: 194

Total Schools Entered: 17

30/01/24 A brilliant effort from our Year 3 footballers (5 boys and 3 girls) who participated in a 16 strong area tournament. The team played some magnificent football with smiles on their faces and lost just the one game 1-0! The future look bright for both the boys and girls teams over the next few years.

13/12/23 and 14/12/23 Christmas Cross Country and St Joseph's move up to third!

With all the festive fun taking place around the school, it was great to see 23 St Joseph children representing the school in the second area cross country race of the year.

There was some fantastic running from everyone who raced and we even saw Freya winning the Year 3 Girls race and Isaac winning the Year 5 Boys race, a remarkable achievement from both of these children considering the level of competition on show!

As always, all the children who compete earn points for the school and I'm happy to say that we have moved up to third position in the league standings out of the 20 schools taking part - GREAT WORK FROM ALL THE CHILDREN WHO RACED AND HELPED TO MOVE OUR SCHOOL UP A POSITION IN THE LEAGUE TABLE!

With the last race of the year taking part at The King Alfred School, I'll keep my fingers crossed for another strong effort!

2^nd Cross Country December 2023

Bridgwater College Academy

The Stats

Total Athletes: 292

Number of Girl Athletes: 114

Number of Boy Athletes: 178

Total Schools Entered: 13

19/10/23 Cross country super stars at it again! 

With the races condensed into one afternoon due to some fairly awful weather, a slightly depleted number of children decided to brave the elements and compete for the school in the first cross country of the 2023-24 season!

The children of St Joseph's never cease to amaze me and once again there were 27 fantastic performances with points accumulating from EVERYONE that raced! We are currently sitting in 4th place out of 16 schools (Brilliant effort).

There were too many racers for me to mention everyone who attended the event but a special mention must go out to Ethan in Year 5 with a gutsy 14th position in an incredibly strong field and to Ciara (also in Year 5) who battled all the way to the end and earned some well deserved points for the school.

There were of course a number of other amazing results, including top ten finishes for Rowan, Freya, Lilah in Year 3, Molly, Emma, Ava and Oscar in Year 4, Emily in Year 5 and finally Harry and Jolie in Year 6!

WELL DONE EVERYONE and I look forward to watching you all race again on Wednesday 13th November (Years 3 and 5) and Thursday 14th December (Years 4and 6) at Bridgwater College Academy.

Team results after the first race are below:

1st Cross Country

Thursday 19th October 2023

Brymore Academy

The Stats

Total Athletes: 358

Number of Girl Athletes: 143

Number of Boy Athletes: 215

Total Schools Entered: 16

10/07/23 Fabulous 6th in Sedgemoor Area Sports! Today, a team of 20 children from St Joseph's travelled all the way to Brymore Academy in Cannington to compete in this years Sedgemoor Schools Area Sports! With around 200 children congregating on the Brymore sports fields, the standard of competition was immense! Each of the children had to compete in a 400m, a 75m sprint, a standing long jump and a vortex howler throw against nine other children from the other schools taking parts. If you finished in the top four you were rewarded with a certificate and earned points for your school! Every single child from St Joseph's finished in a top four position in at least one of their events and many of the team had multiple top four finishes! The competition ended with relays and a presentation in a nearby marquee. With a 6th place finish, the children of St Joseph's should be very proud of themselves. Many of the schools competing today are at least double the size of our tiny school and well over half of the St Joseph's team were from Year 4 or 5 and will be eligible to race again next year! A great all round performance from everyone and I look forward to next year's competition.

03/05/23 Good Luck To All Our County Cross Country Runners - GOOD LUCK to the 11 children from St Joseph's who have been selected to represent the Area of Sedgemoor in the County Cross Country Finals being held in Yeovil on Wednesday 3rd May. It's a great opportunity to races against some of the best runners in the County and we look forward to hearing about how you all get on. 

16/03/23 Year 5 Children Blossom In Tag Rugby Tournament. Braving the wind and rain , a group of ten Year 5 children travelled all the way to North Petherton Rugby Club to compete in a local Tag Rugby Festival. With very little experience of the sport and playing against some teams who live and breathe rugby the children performed brilliantly and undoubtedly grew in confidence and expertise as the competition progressed. It was great to hear about such passion, determination and resilience on display throughout the afternoon. Well done all of you, you should be very proud of yourselves. 

30/01/23 Cross Country Runners Shine Again!  

A huge well done to the 20+ girls and boys who represented St Joseph's in the latest cross country held at King Alfred's. We had some amazing performances from all of our Year 3 and Year 5 representatives in once again rather cold and testing conditions! The overall competition is very close and the St Joseph's children have undoubtedly bridged the gap between themselves and the first place team! With one more set of races to go for our Year 4 and Year 6 children, it's all to play for! School results are below:

3rd Cross Country January 2023

King Alfred’s

The Stats

Total Athletes: 178

Number of Girl Athletes: 84

Number of Boy Athletes: 94

Total Schools Entered:  16

26/01/23 Futsal Wizards!! 

Two teams of Year 4 and 5 boys represented the school this afternoon in a huge Futsal tournament held at Haygrove School in Bridgwater.

The tournament itself attracted 16 teams from all over the area, so as you can imagine, competition was extremely fierce!

There were four pools which meant that each team got to play three group stage matches and a final, dependent on their finishing position in the pool. 

Both teams of boys played incredibly well with passion and determination and I was fortunate enough to observe some of the best football I have seen in a very long time!

Our school is considerably smaller than most of the opposition on show which highlights the strength in depth that we have here at St Joseph's.

One of the teams finished with two wins and two loses (amazing), with the other team finishing the competition with two draws and two wins! They didn't concede a goal and even beat the winners of the overall competition in the process!

Well done boys, this was an unbelievable effort and you should be very proud of yourselves!!  

12/01/23 - This afternoon, both myself and Mr Franklin had the pleasure of accompanying two teams of footballers from St Joseph's to a local area tournament being held at The King Alfred School, Burnham.

The competition drew in schools from the surrounding area and there were  representatives from Churchfield, Bridgwater College Academy (BCA), Westover Green, St Mary's, St John and St Francis and Somerset Bridge.

The boys were amazing putting on a determined and spirited effort in every game and at the same time playing some brilliant football! One of our teams even ended finishing the competition unbeaten!

What makes these performances even more remarkable is that out of the 17 boys that participated, only one of them was in Year 6 meaning that the future of football looks really rosy at St Joseph's!! WELL DONE LADS.

13/12/22 &14/12/22 - The ice and freezing temperatures didn't seem to stop 18 brave children from Joseph's competing in this week's cross country race! With arctic conditions across the county, the children were yet again amazing  as they ventured out onto a freezing Brymore course! It's never easy to run such a distance, but with the cold to contend with as well, the children should be extremely proud of their achievements.

Great effort everyone!! The stats are below and with one more race to go (King Alfred's) it's very close in the league standings:

Total Athletes: 248

Number of Girl Athletes: 110

Number of Boy Athletes: 138

Total Schools Entered:  16

18/10/22 & 19/10/22 - Well, what a brilliant end to the Half Term! On Tuesday and Wednesday this week a team of 47 junior children from St Joseph's travelled all the way to Brymore School in Cannington to compete in the first of three cross country races held throughout the Autumn term.

With girls and boys racing separately in a total of 8 races, St Joseph's was extremely well represented in every Year group. The participation statistics for the event are documented below, but numbers succeeded pre-pandemic participation which is testament to the commitment of the children in the Sedgemoor area.

Total Athletes: 395

Number of Girl Athletes: 183

Number of Boy Athletes: 212

Total Schools Entered:  17

From a scoring point of view, every child that runs earns points for the school total so it's a real team effort! There are of course individual winners in each of the races and we were fortunate enough to take a silver medal in the Year 5 Boys race and a bronze medal in the Year 5 Girls race. Having said that, the real recognition must go towards all the children as a collective and in particular those that might not necessarily finish high up the field but nevertheless earn valuable points for TEAM ST JOSEPH'S who I am happy to say are currently sitting in a MARVELLOUS 2ND POSITION out of the 17 participating schools!! WHAT AN AMAZING EFFORT FROM ALL OF YOU and I can't wait until our second race of the season which will take place later in the term. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!