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

• Tai Chi takes over at St Joseph's

  Thu 28 Jun 2018 Mr Fisher

  With the hot weather really starting to take a grip of the country, today's Sports Week session was a little different! Each class was treated to a Tai Chi lesson, delivered by Lyn our instructor. The hall was near to silent all day as the children entered a calm and relaxed area and spent  half an hour relaxing and focussing on a range of peaceful, flowing movements.

  

• Sports Festival for Year 2 Children

  Thu 28 Jun 2018 Mr Fisher
  Today the children in Year 2 walked down to The King Alfred School to participate in a Sports Festival. The Festival itself was aimed at developing core skills such as running, jumping, balancing etc. in a fun environment and the children really enjoyed the activities that were managed by the Young Leaders at the school. It was great to see so many children enjoying themselves from schools all around the area.

  

• Golf Pro Visit

  Thu 28 Jun 2018 Mr Fisher
  Today the classes were put through their paces by Golf Pro Shane Kaye who is a registered professional golfer based at Berrow Golf Club. Shane spent time working with each class throughout the day providing and supporting the children on a range of golfing activities from chipping to putting! The children and teachers thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

  

• The Marvellous Mile!!

  Thu 28 Jun 2018 Mr Fisher
  Every Class enjoyed Day 2 of Sports Week as they walked, jogged or ran around the perimeter of the school athletics track (178m). They were given a ten minute window to complete as many laps as possible collecting a stamp on their card every time they passed the start line! Take a look at some of the children in action!

  

• Sports Week Kicks Off With Ulimate Frisbee

  Mon 25 Jun 2018 Mr Fisher
  Monday marked the beginning of St Joseph's Sports Week and what better way to begin than with an introduction to a new sport! Ultimate Frisbee has been around for a little while now and today a team of coaches visited our school and  introduced each Class to the game. Below are a few pictures from the Year 1/2 Class in action!

  

• Dance Training for Teachers

  Fri 08 Jun 2018 Mr Fisher
  This year St Joseph's is using a large percentage of the School Sports Premium Funding to improve the quality of PE teaching taking place across the school. Carrie Madjwick, a Dance specialist and Sonya Ellis, a Level 4 Athletics coach have been employed by the school to work alongside all the teachers in an effort to improve teacher confidence and develop future Dance and Athletics delivery taking place across the school. The pictures below show some of the Infant children in action with the Dance teacher!

  

• Young Leader Training at St Joseph's

  Fri 08 Jun 2018 Mr Fisher

  With age comes a certain level of responsibility and it was great to see all of our Year 5 children embracing the challenge today as they were trained as Playground Young Leaders! As I am sure you are aware the school has used part of the Sports Premium Funding issued by the government to invest in new playground markings which we hope will continue to promote healthy lifestyles across the school. The markings themselves are just brilliant; bright, vibrant and different! Today all of our Year 5 children were trained as Young Playground Leaders. A morning session was spend learning how to deliver and adapt activities on and around the markings. In the afternoon different classes were brought out giving the young leaders a chance to deliver all that they had been taught. I must say that the Young Leaders were just amazing and I look forward to seeing them in action at lunch times!