A Tradition of Excellence

The Latest News From St Joseph's Primary School

Have a look and see what is happening in our school.

Date	Title
Nov 17 2009	Board of Governors Annual Report to Parents

Nov 12 2009	St Joseph’s Crowned County Champions

Nov 11 2009	Christmas Concerts

Nov 11 2009	Opening of Ulster Museum

Nov 11 2009	Fr. Sean Retires

Nov 11 2009	Action Cancer Puppet Show

Nov 11 2009	French Day in Nursery

Nov 10 2009	School Prospectus 2009 -2010 Download a copy of the school prospectus.

Nov 6 2009	Autograph Books in Primary 3

Oct 30 2009	New School Council for St Joseph's

Oct 30 2009	Food, Glorious Food in Primary Three!

Oct 30 2009	Making Bread in Primary One

Oct 1 2009	Helping HOPE 03

Sep 28 2009	Healthy Easting in Primary 3

Sep 24 2009	Primary Two were invited to a party in Brackenvale.

Sep 17 2009	Ulster Cancer Foundation Visit Primary 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Pupils

Sep 14 2009	New Nursery Pupils Settling-in at St Joseph’s Nursery is going well as we enjoy the outdoors with our new frisbees.

Sep 10 2009	House Corner in Our Nursery

Sep 10 2009	Sarah Tunney from Primary Seven enjoying playing her new purple violin.

Sep 8 2009	Primary 1 Pupils Settle In The Primary One children have settled into life in St Joseph’s very well indeed.

Sep 7 2009	New Play Equipment Last June, the PFA Committee presented a cheque for £4,000 which was used to purchase play equipment for the children to use during break and lunch times.

Sep 4 2009	What's for Dinner? *Have a look at our dinner menu or download a copy of it.*

Sep 1 2009	HEALTHY BREAK IDEAS

Sep 1 2009	Important Dates for 2009 - 2010 Download a copy of the school calendar for the coming year.

Aug 19 2009	Access to School During Construction Work Download a plan with details of access arrangments to the school during the period of construction.

Jun 29 2009	Work Begins on New School

Jun 19 2009	Presentation of Certificates

Jun 18 2009	Cinderella

Jun 18 2009	N I Soccer Finals

Jun 17 2009	SBN Blitz!

Jun 16 2009	Primary 6 Pupils at St Colman's

Jun 15 2009	Sod Cut for New Building

Jun 11 2009	Young Enterprise Programme

Jun 8 2009	Nursery Sports Day Presentations

Jun 7 2009	Pilot Visits Nursery

Jun 5 2009	Key Stage 1 Sports Day

May 28 2009	Momentous Day for St Joseph’s Primary School

May 21 2009	Primary 3 Reading Challenge

May 20 2009	Greenhill 2009

May 19 2009	SunSmart Policy 2009 Download a copy of our school's policy here.

May 19 2009	Amazing Journey The children in St Joseph’s had the opportunity to go on an ‘Amazing Journey’ travelling back in time to the Holy Land during Our Lord’s time.

May 13 2009	Cheque Presentation LENTEN CAMPAIGN 2009

May 12 2009	SOCCER SUCCESS St Joseph ’s Carryduff experienced a double success in the regional heat of the IFA/Schools’ FA Seven a Side cup which was held recently at the Ozone Complex. The school’s boys and girls soccer teams both qualified for the Northern Ireland finals which will be played in Cookstown on Friday 12^th June. The girls are the defending champions and this year they are hoping to make it back-to-back successes. This is the first time the boys have qualified for the finals and they will be hoping to match the girls’ achievement and be crowned Northern Ireland Champions.

May 6 2009	Justine Gormley Young Musician of the Year 2009

May 6 2009	YOUTHSPEAK COMPETITION

Apr 27 2009	Bishop Donal Bishop Donal with P7 altar servers ath the Confirmation of irish speaking children.

Apr 27 2009	Visitors From Streamvale Farm Judith from Streamvale Farm visited nursery and the children enjoyed seeing the chicks, rabbits and kid.

Apr 24 2009	Presentation of Class Certificates Mr Donnelly presented certificates to class representatives for their great efforts in raising money for charities.

Apr 23 2009	Healthy Living for Nursery Pupils Michael talked to us about keeping fit and eating healthy food.

Apr 20 2009	Nursery Pupils Stay Safe in the Sun!

Apr 8 2009	Egg Rolling! Mrs Lavery's P1 class rolling their eggs in preparation for Easter.

Apr 7 2009	Associated Board Music Examinations

Apr 6 2009	Cumann Na mBunscol Girls’ Indoor Gaelic Football Competition

Apr 3 2009	Inspection Report Have a look at our school's Inspection Report. Go to the LINKS page and follow the link.

Apr 3 2009	Sam Maguire Cup at Our School! Friday 3^rd April was a day of great excitement in St Joseph’s as the Sam Maguire Cup was brought to the school by Mr Cuthbert Donnelly.

Apr 2 2009	First School Council

Apr 2 2009	Spring Concert On Thursday 2nd April friends, family and guests of St. Joseph ’s Primary School were entertained by more than 200 pupils in a Spring Concert.

Apr 2 2009	Mrs McKenna's Class have a Trocaire Break

Apr 1 2009	Cumann na mBunscol Indoor Hurling

Mar 31 2009	Science and Technology Challenge

Mar 31 2009	Environmental Youth Speak Competition

Mar 27 2009	Primary Sevens get ‘A Taste of Northern Ireland’ from the PSNI

Mar 14 2009	Dance Competition

Mar 13 2009	Learning About St Patrick in the Nursery

Mar 13 2009	Mad Hair Day

Mar 12 2009	St Patrick's Day Assembly Pupils, parents and teachers enjoyed the special assembly presented by Mrs Brownlee's Primary 2 class.

Mar 12 2009	P4 Classes Visit St Patrick's Trian

Mar 12 2009	Butterflies at the Nursery The children in St Joseph’s nursery dramatised the life cycle of the butterfly to raise money for the Trocaire Lenten campaign.

Mar 10 2009	CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING Cross Country Running at Lough Moss

Mar 9 2009	Fr Sean Eagan Visited Our School

Mar 6 2009	The Trocaire Copper Pot!

Mar 6 2009	St. Joseph’s Goes Bananas

Mar 5 2009	Book Sale in Aid of Lenten campaign

Mar 4 2009	WORLD MATHS DAY

Mar 4 2009	Sacrament of Reconciliation

Mar 4 2009	Sacrament of Reconciliation 2

Mar 3 2009	Trocaire Representatives Enlighten Our Pupils Jennifer O'Doherty, a past pupil of our school, and Nur who was born in Somalia tell the pupils how their Lenten Campaign money will be used.

Feb 28 2009	Inspection Report Download a copy of the Inspection Report.

Feb 27 2009	Would You Credit It? Credit Union Quiz

Feb 24 2009	Medics in Schools QUB medical students teach pupils about the human body.

Feb 24 2009	Community Relations Programme Primary 5 pupils at Cultra.

Feb 18 2009	Recycling in the Nursery Find out how the children in the Nursery recycle.

Feb 17 2009	OUR CITY WORKSHOP FOR P5

Feb 6 2009	Primary 7 Classes watch the Belfast Giants

Feb 3 2009	Road Safety

Jan 28 2009	Primary 2 Pupils Learn How to Make St Brigid's Crosses

Jan 27 2009	Primary 2 Toys! Primary Two enjoyed a visit from the Educational Officer from Mountstewart.

Jan 26 2009	CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Monday 26^th January saw the launch of Catholic Schools Week.

Jan 26 2009	Chinese New Year Chinese New Year in Nursery

Jan 23 2009	Tiernan McMeel's Gift to Africa!

Jan 23 2009	Work Experience Students

Jan 22 2009	Primary 2 Pupils Visit W5

Jan 21 2009	Credit Union Quiz

Jan 20 2009	Primary 3 Pupils at W5

Jan 18 2009	Find the Polar Bear in the Nursery!

Jan 16 2009	Open Morning

Jan 14 2009	RSPB Visit Nursery

Jan 13 2009	GOLF LESSONS! Roy Skillen *(Castlereagh Borough Council) passed on the rudiments of golf to Mrs Mc Loughlin’s* Primary Four class.**

Jan 9 2009	Associated Board Music Examinations Laura McKenna, Daire Toal and James Woods make sweet music!

Dec 19 2008	Santa Visits St Joseph’s The jingle of sleigh bells was heard in St Joseph’s car park as Santa paid a surprise visit.

Dec 18 2008	The Emperor Penguin (Nursery News) In nursery we have been studying he Emperor Penguin and life in Antarctica.

Dec 16 2008	Visit to Hollygate Residential Home A group of Primary Seven children brought some Christmas cheer to Hollygate Residential Home during a recent visit for Christmas carol singing.

Dec 11 2008	Christmas in St Joseph's Nursery

Dec 11 2008	Primary 5 Pupils Learn About Water The Water Service's Water Bus comes to St Joseph's.

Dec 9 2008	Key Stage 1 Carol Service The children from Key Stage One gathered together in the Church to celebrate the annual Carol Service and they were joined by school orchestra, brass band, woodwind group and the choir.

Dec 9 2008	Primary 1 Pupils Visit The Ark Farm The children in Primary One paid their customary Christmas visit to the Ark Farm.

Dec 4 2008	Belfast Giants Come to School!

Dec 3 2008	Primary 1 Christmas Concert

Dec 3 2008	Primary 7: Victorian Christmas The Primary Sevens got a taste of a Victorian Christmas this year on a trip to Castle Ward with our partner school Killowen P.S.

Nov 28 2008	Christmas Fun at Mountstewart

Nov 28 2008	VIKINGS VISIT! Primary Six children had the opportunity to experience aspects of Viking life at first hand through a ‘Viking Workshop’ on 28^th November 2008.

Nov 26 2008	Mums Beauty / Fashion Night

Nov 26 2008	Mrs Leonard Retires The retirement of Mrs Leonard.

Nov 26 2008	Book Fair The Book Fair was held in November.

Nov 24 2008	ARC 21 Waste Education Programme

Nov 17 2008	Rubbish Robots! Primary Two made some wonderful ‘Rubbish Robots’ out of recycled waste materials.

Nov 12 2008	Wild Animals in Nursery! Mr John Fisher, Education Officer at Belfast Zoo, brought lots of animals to St Joseph’s nursery and the children enjoyed finding out more about animals.

Nov 7 2008	BOG Annual Report

Oct 30 2008	School Prospectus 2008 - 2009 Download a copy of the school prospectus today!

Oct 25 2008	St Joseph's PFA Join Us!

Oct 24 2008	Maths Week Answers to Problems Outside Dinner Hall

Oct 24 2008	Maths Week Answers to Family Quiz

Oct 24 2008	Maths Week in Primary 3

Oct 24 2008	Primary 3 Maths Week Fun

Oct 22 2008	Primary 6 Pupils Enjoying Maths Week

Oct 20 2008	Hints for Maths Week Quiz

Oct 20 2008	New Drum Tutor Gets Into the Beat! Mr Richard Gay has joined St Joseph ’s this year as a percussion tutor.

Oct 20 2008	Wildlife at Our Nursery

Oct 17 2008	Maths Week

Oct 16 2008	The Canon Esler Trophy St Joseph's entered a school team in the Cumann na mBunscol Canon Esler Trophy Down P.S. Football Championship.

Oct 13 2008	Brass Tuition With Mr Savage

Oct 13 2008	Scarecrows from the Nursery

Oct 7 2008	New Football Kit St Joseph's New Soccer Kit

Oct 2 2008	Alex Painting in the Nursery

Oct 1 2008	Primary 1 Pupils Busy Learning Have a look at photographs of Mrs Lavery's Primary 1 class sorting leaves and showing their creative spirit.

Sep 30 2008	Primary 2 Visited Castleward Have a look at photographs of our P2 pupils at the Applefest in Castleward.

Sep 24 2008	Revised Record of Achievement

Sep 23 2008	Success with Music There is a long musical tradition in our school.

Sep 19 2008	Healthy Choices in Primary 3 As part of the school’s efforts to promote a healthy lifestyle the children in Primary Three developed further the healthy eating theme.

Sep 18 2008	Healthy Eating The boys and girls in Primary 2 were learning about the benefits of eating healthy food and they made their own fruit cocktails.

Sep 16 2008	Day for European Languages European Languages Day was celebrated in some style in St Joseph ’s this year.

Sep 16 2008	Tesco Tokens = Computer Equipment! Last year we collected an amazing 27,000 Tesco Computer in Schools Tokens

Sep 16 2008	Healthy Break in the Nursery

Sep 9 2008	SAVE ENERGY! Naomi from the NI Energy Agency came to speak to the Primary Five and Seven pupils about energy efficiency.

Sep 1 2008	Full Attendance Certificates Presented

Jul 5 2008	Mrs Graham’s Trip to the Romanian Orphanage

Jun 10 2008	South Belfast News Competition

Apr 29 2008	PASTORAL CARE POLICIES Download a copy of our school's policy today.

Nov 20 2007	Board of Governors' Report Download the BOG Report here.

Nov 15 2007	Use of the Internet Please download this document which outlines the school's policy regarding internet use.

Oct 25 2007	Behaviour Management Policy We are currently reviewing the school's Behaviour Management policy and we wish to include parents in this review. We would welcome any comments you may wish to make regarding the rewards and sanctions.

Jun 11 2007	Our New School Have a look and see what our new school will look like.

Jun 11 2006	Young Enterprise Programme