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SPORTS HALL BRONZE MEDAL SUCCESS!!!!

Thu 24 Nov 2022 Mr Fisher

A 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!!

GIRLS THRIVE IN FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

Thu 03 Nov 2022 Mr Fisher

Today 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!!!!!!

ST JOSEPH'S CROSS COUNTRY SUPER STARS!!

Fri 21 Oct 2022 Mr Fisher

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!!!!!!!!

School	1^st XC	2^nd XC	3^rd 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

A Celebration of Youth

Wed 12 Oct 2022

Dear 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

Spirited Effort From Boys Football Team In ESFA Area Tournament

Mon 03 Oct 2022 Mr Fisher

A 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!!

Flu Immunisation Program for Reception to Year 6 Inclusive - Sept 2022

Wed 21 Sep 2022

Notice 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.

SWIM TEAM SUCCESS

Mon 20 Jun 2022 Mr Fisher

A 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!

A MASSIVE THANK YOU

Fri 17 Jun 2022

You may have noticed that we have some beautiful planted pots dotted around the School Entrance, Playground and in the Nursery Garden.

We were lucky enough to receive an amazing donation of flowering plants from Unity Farm and Stephen Cooper kindly donated some bags of compost for us to use.

Miss Cooper got her 'green fingers' to work at the weekend and created a floral masterpiece to rival Kew Gardens.

We hope you all enjoy them as much as we do

YEAR 3/4 TENNIS SUPERSTARS

Tue 14 Jun 2022 Mr Fisher

Today, a team of 24 children from St Joseph's travelled down the road to the 'Avenue Tennis Club' to compete in a tennis tournament against a number of other schools from around the area. The children from St Joseph's have been attending an after school club over the past few weeks and this was a great opportunity to put into practice all the different skills they have been taught!

The competition was quite simple! Teams were split into two separate pools with individuals playing 5 matches each and points being accumulated. At the end of the tournament, the top teams from each pool contested the final and I'm happy to say that on this occasion BOTH came from St Joseph's!!

Throughout the competition the children played with real passion and determination and it was lovely to see such good cooperation and sportsmanship on display in every game I was able to watch. A huge well done to everyone that took part in this competition - You were all brilliant!