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

• 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!

  

• Royal Wedding Street Party Lunch

  Thu 17 May 2018

  The bunting is up, the cupcakes are cooked, the tables are set and we are ready to celebrate the Royal Wedding with our Street party.

   

   

  What an amazing job, well done Angela and Alison for our celebratory Royal Wedding Street party.

  

• WOW!!!! What a start to our Celebrations!!

  Thu 17 May 2018

  What an amazing start to our day of celebration for the Royal Wedding.

  The photograph below of the celebrations assembly this morning show a beautiful sea of red white and blue.

  

• Wimbledon Tennis Stars In The Making!

  Mon 14 May 2018 Mr Fisher

  This afternoon our Year 3-4 Tennis player competed in a local Tennis competition held at The Avenue Tennis Club, Burnham-on-Sea. The squad of 16 girls and boys who have been refining their skills in an after school club run by Mr Fisher got to pitch their talents against each other as well as other children from surrounding schools. It was great to see the children playing with such enthusiasm and determination in a competitive situation and everyone seemed to enjoy the experience of each game, whether they won, drew or lost! The weather was beautiful and Barry from the Tennis Club itself was a superstar ensuring that all the children had a good time. And who knows - Maybe the next Wimbledon superstar will come from St Joseph's!!!!! 

  

• Congratulations to our First Holy Communion Children

  Wed 09 May 2018

  The First Holy Communion Children looked beautiful on their special day Celebrated at our Lady and English Martyrs Church. All of the children taking part had a job to do. Clea did the reading and Nathan, Phoebe, Charlotte and Kira all doing the bidding prayers. They were word perfect. 

  

• St Joseph's Gymnasts Are 7th Best In The County!

  Mon 30 Apr 2018 Mr Fisher
  Another trip to Yeovil, another remarkable team performance! Well done to our Year 3/4 Gymnasts who travelled to Yeovil last week to represent both school and area in the Somerset School Games Finals. Finishing the competition in 7th place, the children had to perform a rather complex routine, along with a series of testing vaults. As if that wasn't nerve racking enough, their performances were delivered in front of a rather large audience and scored by an official panel of judges! 7th place is great result and considering half the team still have another year in this age group, the future and quality of gymnastics at St Joseph's looks rosy!

  

• Cross Country Runners Medal in County Finals

  Mon 30 Apr 2018 Mr Fisher
  Well, what can I say? On a cold April evening, a selected team of cross country runners from St Joseph's travelled all the way to Yeovil to represent not only our school, but the Sedgemoor district in the Inter area County Finals. The course was short and fast, but never the less the children were quite simply brilliant and performed admirably with both the Year 5/6 girls and boys teams taking home bronze team medals! To even be selected to represent the area in such a prestigious event is just amazing in itself and all the children should be very proud of what they have achieved. Well done all of you!

• First Holy Communion

  Mon 30 Apr 2018

  We pray for our children who are making their First Holy Communion

   

  Mia Janicka

  Phoebe Poole

  Esme Baker

  Kira Nicholas

  Nathan Solijon

  Clea Goluya

  & Charlotte Taylor

   

  May they grow in the light of Christ.

  Amen

  

• Year 3/6 Swimmers Crowned Gala Champions

  Fri 20 Apr 2018 Mr Fisher

  Well, what can I say.......Never in my 21 years of teaching at St Joseph's have our Swimming team come so close to winning the overall Burnham-on-Sea swimming gala! The children from Years 3 and 6 who competed this afternoon against 8 other schools from around the area were just quite simply remarkable! We forged ahead in the competition at the half way stage and maintained a slender lead over St Andrew's finishing the afternoon 6 points clear in first place! With two sets of gala results combined we finished with with 271 points, just 8 points behind the overall winners but 80 points in front of third place! We've never been so close!!!!!! Well done everyone who competed in either gala (and a special well done to Matilda, Kitty and Niamh who were all swimming up a year today) - truly amazing.