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

• Skipping Success for the Green Team!!

  Tue 24 Mar 2015
  The children of St Joseph's gathered today in the School Hall for a very special Whole School Assembly. Over the course of the last half term our coloured teams have been competing against one another to see how many skips they can do in 20 seconds. Their scores have been added together (across the whole of the school) to find out which team has the highest overall average. Would it be St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke or St John?
  
  I'm happy to announce that the overall winner this Term is
  
  St John’s (The Green Team).
  
  Congratulations goes out to all its members. The results have been engraved on 'The Walton Cup' which currently sits in the entrance to the school.
  
  Final standings were as follows:
  
  1St St John (Green) 24.37 skips
  2nd St Matthew (Yellow) 22.07 skips
  3rd St Mark (Blue) 21.94 skips
  4th St Luke (Red) 19.91 skips
  
  Class results were as follow:
  
  Reception – St Matthew (Yellow) 8.66 skips
  Reception/Year 1 – St John (Green) 9.71 skips
  Year 1/2 – St Mark (Blue) 21.33 skips
  Year 2 – St Mark (Blue) 31.38 skips
  Year 3 – St John (Green) 31.25 skips
  Year 4 – St John (Green) 34.88 skips
  Year 5 – St Matthew (Yellow) 36.70 skips
  Year 6 – St Matthew (Yellow) 38.30 skips
  
  Top skippers in each class were:
  
  Reception - Phoebe 16 skips / Esme 13 skips / Reece 12 skips
  Reception/Year 1 - Kobe 19 skips / Esmae 15 skips / William 12 skips
  Year 1/2 - Hannah 50 skips / Adam 34 skips / Jasmine 33 skips
  Year 2 – William 50 skips / George 46 skips / Millie 42 skips
  Year 3 - Rudi 46 skips / Lilly 44 skips / Dior 43 skips
  Year 4 - Dorothy 56 skips / Halle 48 skips / Daisy-May 45 skips
  Year 5 - Kamil 56 skips / James 52 skips / Holly 52 skips
  Year 6 - Caitlin 59 skips / Connor 57 skips / Isobel 54 skips

• PTA EASTER EGG HUNT - Thursday 26th March 2015

  Mon 23 Mar 2015
  The Easter Egg hunt will take place from 3.15pm in the school playground. Please note that there will be NO refreshments or cake stall at this event.

• St Joseph's goes Skipping Crazy!!

  Thu 19 Mar 2015
  On Thursday last week, ‘Skipping Workshops’ joined St Joseph's and delivered a 25 minute skipping lesson to all of our eight classes! The children were engaged in learning new ways to skip as well as consolidating existing skills. The day provided a nice ending to this terms intra-school skipping competition and as a result of the sessions, the playground has suddenly been filled with energetic skippers! Long may it continue!!

  

• Nursery Places available for September 2015

  Thu 19 Mar 2015
  The Nursery has places available for start in September 2015 for children turning 3 before 31st August 2015.
  
  If you would like further information please contact Hannah Lovibond-Stephens or the school office on 01278 784641

• Kitchen Building Works Update

  Tue 17 Mar 2015
  As you can see from the photographs below the kitchen is almost complete.

  

• Stargazing at St Joseph's - Friday 20th March 5-7pm

  Mon 16 Mar 2015
  Come and join us on Friday 20th March 5-7pm and use the telescopes to discover what is shining down on us. It doesn’t get dark till after 6pm but you can still come along and have a go on the telescopes and learn a bit more about astronomy.

• Playground Leaders in training!

  Wed 11 Mar 2015
  Today at St Joseph's 24 children from our Junior classes were involved in some exciting Playground Leadership training run by our School Games coordinator Nancy Murdoch 
   

  Playground Leaders set up and run simple games for younger children in the school playground during break and lunch times. This is a real opportunity for individuals to take a first step along the leadership ladder and become responsible for developing an important aspect of school life.

  The School Council has spent time selecting and purchasing a range of equipment ready to be used and today the children received  a morning session of coaching. The children were put through their paces and were shown how to set up, manage and where needed adapt a range of playground games.

  We hope that the introduction of such leaders will ensure that playtime continues to be an enjoyable and stimulating experience for all concerned. Well done to this team of 24 and we look forward to seeing your orange Playground Leadership caps floating around the playground hard at work!!

  

• Tag Rugby Team Triumph!!

  Thu 05 Mar 2015
  Yesterday a team of eight Year 5 and Year 6 children competed in the Sedgemoor Area Schools Tag Rugby Finals. There were at total of 15 schools represented from across the area and the children competed within a pool of 5. With games against Berrow, Huntspill, Bridgwater College Academy and Kingsmoor the children were victorious in two of the their games and very narrow losers in the other two games (there was just one point separating the teams). This was a fantastic team effort and the children not only played some fantastic rugby, but they also conducted themselves extremely well as representatives of St Joseph's School. Well done all of you - The school is very proud!

  

• National Science and Engineering Week

  Wed 04 Mar 2015
  Dear Parents,
  
  During the week commencing 16th March, the school will be holding a special events week to coincide with National Science and Engineering Week.
  
  During this week, there will be a number of special assemblies in which the children will learn about energy and observe science experiments. We will be looking at inventors, engineers and investigate the science behind moving. These activities will be closely linked to DT and the children will get the chance to design and make a contraption.
  
  Year 3 have created a questionnaire for any parents or family members with a job in science or engineering. You will be able to collect one of the questionnaires from your child’s teacher. If you could return the completed form to the school by Wednesday 18th, we will display these during our science fair.
  
  On Thursday 19th March, we will be holding a science fair in the hall during the afternoon. The children will be able to see what all the other classes within the school have been learning. This will hopefully be a chance to see a finished invention from each class.
  
  The PTA are organising a star gazing event which will take place on Friday 20th March from 5pm- 7pm. There will be a guest speaker and the chance to learn more about stars. Further information about this event will follow shortly.
  
  
  Yours sincerely,
  
  Miss F Duncan
  Subject Leader for Science