Yesterday our U13 Football team travelled to Kingsley School. They were superb and showed real teamwork and determination. It has been a super busy week with sporting fixtures across the school, well done all โฝ
Reception and Year 1 celebrated Chinese New Year this week which involved a Chinese New Year story sack (thank you Kasey), a Chinese lunch, red envelope pully delivery races in the orchard and we made a Chinese new year wish tree with Year 2. We also had a craft afternoon and worked together to make a fantastic Chinese dragon ๐
Congratulations to the U13 Netball team who travelled to Kingsley School this week for a mini tournament. The St Joseph’s team won 2 matches and lost 1 match. They played excellently and showed real team work. Well done ๐
Yesterday we just managed to get our Liturgical celebration of the Christmas period in with a service for the Feast of Candlemas. The Feast falls on the 2nd February and it marks the end of Christmas and Epiphany, we did not quite make the 2nd but somewhere in the word is was still the 2nd February! The service was a new venture for the school as we needed something to make-up for the cancelled Carol Service and we were also able to use St Cuthbertโs Church which St Josephโs have not used for a service many years. Father John and the team at St Cuthbert’s made us so welcome and it was a wonderful place to make music in. It was good to see so many members of the extended St Josephโs family supporting the service (and singing so heartily). Those who were there treated to a wide range of music which was performed by the Boysโ Choir, Girlsโ Chamber Choir and Canzonetta. All was accompanied on the organ by Mr Jonathan Mann who played with great sensitivity. In addition to playing the organ Mr Mann spent a great deal of time in the morning tracking down some very unusual noises emanating from the organ chamber that we had to contend with during rehearsals. This was truly a St Josephโs Family affair as we have not had many opportunities to undertake joint work with both the Junior and Senior schools, when we do, it shows what a great place this is. Mr Green. ๐ฏ๏ธ๐ต
This week in Digital Photography we welcomed Doug Anderson into school to teach the Year 10 students some technical camera processes. Doug also gave the students a personal insight into being a BBC wildlife cameraman. Thank you Doug! ๐ท