School Blog
Year 6 visit Alton Castle
Year 6 have had a wonderful time visiting Alton Castle today! The children have taken part in lots of different activities and enjoyed a retreat style day becomming closer to God.
October
Welcome to October - one of the months dedicated to Our Lady. During this month we will be thinking about Mary and taking the opportunity to pray the Rosary together.
Road Safety
Year 6 took part in a Road Safety Workshop this week. The children were learning about how to keep themselves safe when out in the community. Especially important as they look towards the transition to secondary school.
Loudmouth
Our Year 5 children enjoyed a visit from Loudmouth Education and Training and took part in a workshop called Helping Hands. The children were learning how to keep themselves safe in different situations.
Feast of The Archangels
To celebrate the Feast of the Archangels we have been gifted a beautiful rose from the St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust. Our Creation Guardians have planted it in Gabriel's Garden as a message of hope.
Year 3’s Mass
Year 3 led our special Mass today celebrating the Feast of the Archangels. Fr talked about how the Archangels are special messengers of God's love and how he sent them as He loves us so much He doesn't want us to be alone.
MVVP Week
Last week was MVVP Week. The children looked our school Mission, the Mission of our Archdiocese and CMAT, our school Values, their Vocation and the imporance of Prayer!
Pupil Prepared Worship
Thank you to some of our Year 6 children who prepared and led our worship this morning. They chose the theme of Creation and made links to our school values and Catholic Social Teaching.
Joseph’s Jigsaw visit Pilgrim’s Pond
Joseph’s Jigsaw visited Pilgrim's Pond as part of their Season Of Creation activities. They all really enjoyed looking around and ticking off what they could find on the checklist.
Year 4 Mass
Thank you to Year 4 who led our whole school Mass this morning. Fr Samy spoke to us about the importance of listening to Jesus and following his word. This is something we especially want to do during our MVVP week in school.
Year 5 think about caring for Creation
Year 5 visited pilgrims pond this week, during the season of creation we have been thinking how we can follow Catholic social teaching looking after our world. The children drew a sketch of the pond and then added a way we could care for creation thinking of our...
Year 3 enjoy God’s Creation
Today, we visited Pilgrims Pond as part of the Season of Creation. A group of them became creation detectives observing things that move, grow, make noise and what we need to protect. Another group were thinking about how we can protect God’s creation and how to look...
Year 1 visit Pilgrim’s Pond
Year 1 enjoyed their time outside appreciating God's wonderful creation by visiting Pilgrim's Pond to try and spot some of the creatures living there!
Reception at Pilgrim’s Pond
Reception were appreciating God's Creation by visiting PIlgrim's Pond!
Nursery enjoying God’s Creation
In the Season of Creation our Nursery children have had fun visiting our outdoor spaces! Here they are enjoying Gabriel's Garden.
Year 5 Mass
Thank you to Year 5 who led our school Mass this morning. Fr Samy reminded us how we should try and be like Our Lady and care for others especially today on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Foundation Governors
Could you be a Foundation Governor and support Catholic Education? Please take a leaflet at the end of Mass from the back of our church this Education Sunday!
Happy Birthday Mary!
Year 6 did a wonderful job of leading the first Mass of the school year. An extra special Mass as we celebrated Mary's birthday! We calculated that if we all pray a decade of the rosary today, we'll be sending Our Lady nearly 2000 roses!
Meet and Greet
A BIG thank you to all of the families that were able to join us for our teacher meet and greet session yesterday. The children were all so excited to show off their new classrooms!
Celebrating Creation
It's been an absolute pleasure to welcome everybody back to St Joseph's after the summer break. The children have returned and settled back into school wonderfully! Following a settling session we gathered together to pray, and kept our promise of praying for last...