Celebrating First Holy Communions

by Christina McDermott | June 19, 2019 | Catholic Life, Featured, Year 4 | 0 Comments

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to our children in Year 4 who celebrated receiving the Sacrament of the Eucharist on Saturday, when they made their First Holy Communion. It was a very joyous celebration and wonderful to see the whole parish community gathering together to fill...

Summer Singing Concert Letter

by Rebecca Allon | June 19, 2019 | News | 0 Comments

Y4 Exploring Different Habitats

by Christina McDermott | June 13, 2019 | Featured, News, Year 4 | 0 Comments

Year 4 fortuitously managed to dodge the rain on their trip to Walltown Country Park and The Sill Visitor Centre in Northumberland. To enhance their learning in Science, the children explored a variety of habitats with activities including pond dipping, minibeast...

Gateshead Holiday Activities and Food Programme

by Christina McDermott | June 13, 2019 | Events and Visits, Featured, Letters to Parents | 0 Comments

More than 400 places per day of free activities will be available in the summer holidays thanks to funding that Gateshead Council has secured from the government.The free activities are available to children aged between 5 and 18 with a packed lunch or hot meal also...

Y5/Y6 Tri Golf Competition

by Christina McDermott | June 10, 2019 | Sports, Year 5, Year 6 | 0 Comments

Well done to our Tri Golf Team who finished fourth in the recent Gateshead Schools Tri Golf Competition.

Girls Kwik Cricket Competition

by Christina McDermott | June 10, 2019 | Featured, Sports, Year 5, Year 6 | 0 Comments

Well done to our Y5/Y6 Girl's Cricket team who took part in the Gateshead Schools Kwik Cricket Tournament last week. 'It was great fun and we all played really well together.' said Alana Y6. Mr Shields agreed, commenting that he was very impressed with the skill and...

Y4 Mini Tennis Competition

by Christina McDermott | June 10, 2019 | Featured, Sports | 0 Comments

Well done to our Y4 team who completed in the recent Mini Tennis Competition at Cardinal Hume Secondary School, finishing in bronze medal position - 'They played really well, demonstrating great skills and a wonderful team spirit,' said Mr Shields, 'I was very...

Go Run for Fun at Saltwell Park 2019

by Christina McDermott | June 10, 2019 | Featured, News, Sports | 0 Comments

Well done to the whole school for taking part in the Go Run for Fun event at Saltwell Park at the end of the last half-term. The sun shone on over 2000 children from lots of Gateshead Primary Schools as they completed this annual fun run cheered on by lots of our...

Celebrating the Feast of Pentecost

by Christina McDermott | June 10, 2019 | Catholic Life, Featured, News | 0 Comments

Yesterday in church we celebrated the Feast of Pentecost when we remember the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the church. To us, Pentecost is all about the family of God – a multicultural family where all barriers of race, creed and culture are...

School Choir – First Holy Communion Mass

by Rebecca Allon | June 7, 2019 | Catholic Life, Featured, Letters to Parents | 0 Comments

WELCOME

Welcome to St Joseph’s Catholic Junior School.

St. Joseph’s Catholic Junior School is a friendly, successful and high-achieving school for pupils aged 7-11, founded in 1898. We are very proud of our many achievements and by following Christ’s teaching we intend to make all that happens within the school speak of God’s loving care for all of us.

By working together our whole school community strives to live out the aims of our mission statement:

‘Christ is our light and our life’

in order to ensure that we fulfil our shared school vision of providing a 21st century curriculum for 21st century learners, with the aim of inspiring our children with a love of God, a love of learning and a love of life.

Our website contains lots of information about our school, including up to date news and events listings, as well as recent examples of our work and play.

I hope you enjoy your visit to our website and find it useful.

Christina McDermott – Head Teacher

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Attendance Points (Spring Term 2019)

Key: 2pts – class attendance over 96%, 4pts – highest weekly class attendance, 6pts – 100% class attendance

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SCHOOL NEWS

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CYPMH (Children and Young Peoples Mental Health) Trailblazer Project

Jun 6, 2019

St Joseph’s Parish Bulletin – 7th Sunday of Easter (Year C)

Jun 3, 2019

May Procession to Mary’s Grotto

May 24, 2019

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 5 planned and led a pilgrimage and special liturgy. The children and staff processed to our parish church of St Joseph’s...

Cricket Gold Medal Winners!

May 24, 2019

CONGRATUALTIONS - to our Y6 school cricket team on winning the Gateshead Schools Cricket Tournament at Gateshead Fell this week. Our Kwik Cricket team returned victorious from the recent Primary Festival at Gateshead Fell Cricket Club. Out of 23 teams competing, our...

A River Study for Y5 in the Breamish Valley

May 24, 2019

This week our Year 5 Class had a field trip to the River Breamish in Northumberland as part of their Geography topic learning all about the different features of a river. The visit was a follow on from their session in school, led by a member of The Sill* ( learning...