St Joseph'sCatholic Primary & Nursery School
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Non Uniform Day - Friday 9th December
Wed 30 Nov 2022Non Uniform Day
Friday 9th December
In exchange for an item for the
Christmas Hamper Raffle
See Flyer below for details
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Christmas Disco
Wed 30 Nov 2022Christmas Disco
Thursday 8th December
KS1 5.30 - 6.30PM
KS2 7.00 - 8.00PM
Tickets from £4 Each
on sale from Weds 30th November in the playground
See Flyer below
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Christmas Activities in School - Letter
Wed 30 Nov 2022Dear Parents,
KS1 & KS2 Christmas Performances 2022
On Tuesday 13th December at 2:00pm (entry from 1:45) and Wednesday 14th December at 10:00am (entry from 9:45) the children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes will be performing a Christmas Nativity.
You are invited to join us in the school hall. However, as space is limited due to Health and Safety, it will be necessary to restrict families to 2 tickets in total. Tickets will be available to collect in the playground from 8:45 – 9.00 am on Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th of December.
There will be enough for each family to have 2 tickets in total for either the AM or PM performance or x 1 ticket for each performance. If someone is collecting on your behalf they will be asked for a signature to say they have received the tickets.
On the day of the performance you will be asked for your ticket upon entry, so please keep it somewhere safe. If you don’t need your ticket/s please return to the office or to Mrs Williams who will allocate to those on the waiting list. It should not be passed to another parent as it will not correspond with our lists and you could be refused entry. There will be a waiting list (spare tickets) at the time of collecting your tickets for exceptional circumstances.
These will be issued once all families have collected their tickets.
As you may appreciate this performance will be quite an occasion for the children, so we do request that very young siblings do not attend, as this can cause some disturbance during the production. Teachers will take photos of their own classes for the school website and photos will also be published in the local newspaper. We will give details of this closer to the time.
The KS2 carol service will take place in ‘Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church’ on Tuesday 13th December at 6pm. Everyone is welcome and you will not need a ticket to attend.
We hope you enjoy our performances and look forward to seeing you there.
A collection for charity will take place at the end of the production.
Other Christmas events:
Wednesday 7th December – Nursery Christmas performance 2.30pm
Thursday 8th December – PTA Christmas Disco’s (KS1 5.30 – 6.30pm and KS2 7 – 8pm)
Friday 9th December – there will be a non-uniform day where will be inviting pupils to wear their own clothes in return for donations towards the PTA Christmas raffle. Further details will be sent regarding this.
Wednesday 14th December – Christmas dinner! We would like to invite the children to wear their Christmas jumpers (in place of their normal school jumpers) on this day!
Thursday 15th December – Cinema Trip! Thank you again to our amazing PTA who are treating the children to a visit to the cinema. We will be watching the following films:
Y5 and Y6 – Matilda the musical (PG)Y3 and Y4 – Disney’s Strange World (PG)
Reception and KS1 - Disney’s Strange World (PG)
Friday 16th December – End of term celebration assembly (children only) and last day of term.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Rhonda Williams - Assistant Head
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SPORTS HALL BRONZE MEDAL SUCCESS!!!!
Thu 24 Nov 2022A huge congratulations to the 9 boys and 9 girls from St Joseph's who competed today in the Sports Hall Athletics Area Finals held at Bridgwater College. Each of the children had to compete in two track relay events and two field events (standing long jump, standing triple jump, vertical jump, speed stepper, chest push and javelin). As you can imagine, assigning each child their best event was logistically challenging and to make make matters even more difficult, there were unfortunately 5 absentees due to illness! But this is a wonderful group of children at St Joseph's and even with a number of changes to events and new children being drafted in at the last minute, the team fought off competition from seven other schools and finished in a remarkable 3rd place, taking the bronze medal and only 2 points away from silver!! A TRULY MAGNIFICENT EFFORT TEAM - WELL DONE!!
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GIRLS THRIVE IN FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
Thu 03 Nov 2022Today a squad of 18 St Joseph girls travelled all the way to Bridgwater College to compete in the ESFA Regional competition. The St Joseph's squad of 18 were split into two equally sized teams of 9 and were pitted against representations from 14 other schools from around the area. There were four pools and the winners of each pool progressed to the semi finals and then possibly the final!
Both our St Joseph's teams were just amazing with many of the girls a year or two under age and playing against much older children! After some tough competition one of our teams finished an incredible second place in their pool with the other team managing to secure victory and move to a place in the semi finals! There were some great wins against Eastover, Willowdown, Otterhampton as well as draws against BCA and a second Eastover team!
In the semi final the girls put up a spirited display losing to an extremely strong St Joseph's team from Bridgwater who went on to win the overall competition! This meant a third place play off for our girls who secured a 0-0 draw against North Petherton leaving us with a third place medal overall!
Highlights of the day have to be seeing the girls play with such spirit, passion and determination. There was also a rather impressive hat trick from Emily in one of the games as well as some brilliant saves from both Daisy and Amelia. Unfortunately there are too many individual triumphs for me to write about; there was some great goal scoring on display, some magnificent passing between players and some brave tacking!
AMAZING EFFORT GIRLS - I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL OUR NEXT COMPETITION!!!!!!
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ST JOSEPH'S CROSS COUNTRY SUPER STARS!!
Fri 21 Oct 2022Well, 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!!!!!!!!
School
1st XC
2nd XC
3rd XC
Total
Kingsmoor
1191
St Joseph’s
1031
Enmore
868
Nether Stowey
780
Eastover
751
St Andrew’s
695
Somerset Bridge
690
North Petherton
640
North Newton
636
Puriton
633
St Mary’s
571
St Joseph’s (BW)
427
St John St Francis
341
Willowdown
260
Churchfield
248
Cannington
184
Berrow
136
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A Celebration of Youth
Wed 12 Oct 2022Dear Headteacher, Teachers and Parents,
The Town Council would like to recognise young people in our towns who are showing themselves to be deserving of recognition through positive actions .
Attached please find a poster and a copy of the nomination form for our” Celebration of Youth” event to be held at The King Alfred School on Saturday 15th October. Please could you consider posting these prominently somewhere and sharing it with your teachers/students/parents etc.., to encourage nominations of worthy young people in the 3 different categories:
- leadership
- giving peer support
- raising awareness of climate and ecological change We have 2 age groups for each category, under 11’s and also 11-18 .
Any nominations sent in would benefit from an informative nomination/reason for the award explaining why that person is worthy of the award.
We look forward to seeing lots of you at the event where there will also be stalls/opportunities to showcase activities on offer to the younger members of our society. If you would like to have an opportunity to showcase your own organisation, or any “open to all “ activities then please let me know.
Please can you either confirm your attendance; send through any completed nomination forms for an award , and or, book a table please to admin@burnham-highbridge-tc.gov.uk
Kind Regards
Clare Doyle
Customer Service Officer
Burnham-on-Sea & Highbridge Town Council
The Old Courthouse, Jaycroft Road, Burnham-on-Sea, TA8 1LE
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Spirited Effort From Boys Football Team In ESFA Area Tournament
Mon 03 Oct 2022A huge well done to the 9 boys who travelled all the way to Bridgwater College to represent the school in an ESFA Area Tournament.
Pitted against some very strong competition from a number of schools well over double the size of ours, the boys performed remarkably well and played with real passion, grit and determination!
All of the games were extremely close and could have gone either way! There were some very narrow loses against St Mary's (who went on to win the overall competition), North Petherton (2-1), Somerset Bridge (1-0) but the highlight of the afternoon had to be a last second goal to seal victory against Berrow (2-1)!
Great performance boys, the school is extremely proud of your achievements and with many of the team still in Year 4 and 5, the future looks rosy!!
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Flu Immunisation Program for Reception to Year 6 Inclusive - Sept 2022
Wed 21 Sep 2022Notice to all Parents,
Please ensure that you respond to the letter sent out by email today (21.9.22) with regards your child flu immunisation in school.
There is information and a link for you to follow to give your permission for your child to receive this when the SAINTS team visit the school next Weds 28.9.22.
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SWIM TEAM SUCCESS
Mon 20 Jun 2022A huge well done to the 16 Year 5/6 children who represented St Joseph's in the Sedgemoor Area Swimming Gala held at Chilton Trinity (1610) Sports Club today. The team finished a very credible third place against strong opposition from Never Stowey, St Mary's, Kingsmoor, Eastover and Enmore. It was great to see such a wide range of swimming talent on display from all the older children at St Joseph's. Well done everyone!
