EVENTS AND VISITS
Sainsbury’s Summer School Games Competition
What a lot of sporting talent we have at St Joseph’s Juniors! This morning, the children all took part in a variety of sporting activities (see photographs below) as part of our Sainsbury’s School Games Gold Award. The inter-house competition between our...
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The Tempest – a farewell performance by Year 6.
Well done to all of our Year 6 who performed a very memorable musical production of The Tempest by William Shakespeare on Monday evening. The wonderful singing, together with an abundance of acting talent, served to entertain the audience from start to finish!...
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Our School Summer Fayre.
A HUGE thank you to staff (especially Miss Allon, our event planner!), our pupils, particularly our School Council, local businesses and our wonderful parents for helping to make our Summer Fayre a very enjoyable afternoon and a great success! Altogether we raised a...
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Sensational Summer Singing Concerts!
A HUGE well done to all of our classes for their amazing, awesome and outstanding singing performances in our annual summer concerts this week. I am sure it will help us to secure our Gold Sing Up award this year. A great BIG thank you too, to the teachers,...
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Y3 & Y4 Visit to Beamish Museum
Years 3 and 4 enjoyed a fantastic day out at Beamish Museum, where they became frontline soldiers, during WW1. Following an outreach day earlier in the week with historian Bill Elliot, each class took part in a special WW1 workshop, which was very ‘hands on’. First of...
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My Neighbour and Me Project
This term, Year 4 have been involved with a project called ‘My Neighbour and Me’. Lots of year 4 classes in Gateshead were partnered with a school from the neighbouring Local Authority, County Durham. The aim of the project was to recognise the cultural...
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Athletics Competition at Chester-Le-Street Riverside
Well done to all of our children from Y5 & Y6 who took part in the annual District Sports at the Riverside in Chester-Le-Street recently. There were 19 schools taking part and both of our teams had lots of competitors who made it through the heats and into the...
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Pilgrimage to Mary’s Grotto
To mark May as a special month of prayer dedicated to the honour of Our Lady, Mary, mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, the children from Years 3 and 4 planned and led a pilgrimage and special liturgy. The children and staff processed to our parish church of St...
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Y4 visit Herrington Country Park
As a reward for winning last term’s ‘Best Attendance’ competition, Year 4 chose to celebrate with a visit to Herrington Country Park for a day of cycling, walking and generally enjoying being outdoors. ‘The weather couldn’t have been...
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A Lenten Liturgy for Holy Week
On Thursday morning our Year 3 and Year 4 class led a wonderful Lenten Liturgy for parents and grandparents telling the story of the first Holy Week. The Gospel reading were read as if through the eyes of those who were with Jesus during his journey to the cross,...
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Easter Celebrations.
On Wednesday, the hall was a hive of industry as the whole school took part in our traditional egg decorating competition. As always we had some very creative ideas, as you can see from the photographs below, but the eventually winners were: Jessie and Joe from Year...
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‘A Case of the Blues’ on Fundraising Friday!
Our final ‘fundraising Friday’ was a non-uniform day with a watery/blue/fishy theme to reflect the Cafod ‘Turning Little Fish into Big Fish’ campaign. The children came into school wearing as much blue as they could, as you can see from the...
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