disco diva

On Wednesday 7th December we had the Friends' Christmas Disco. It was a great success and everyone enjoyed themselves. There was singing and dancing all through the night. They also included a special visit from Santa who gave a lovely present to each child there. We would like to thank all the Friends and members of staff who helped to organise the brilliant disco!

The year's coming to the end.......

The year's coming to an end so remember to . . .

.wrap-up warm

.have as much fun as possible

.get all your friends phone numbers or else no fun over the holidays!!!




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Breakfast Buddies

Last year, the Breakfast Club proved very popular, so it was decided to continue this year. It starts at 7:15 and ends 8:15, when the bell goes for the children to go to school.It is a real bargain, as it only costs £3 for a morning.
During the club, the children eat a nutritious breakfast- either toast or cereal. The club is very artistic and creative and lets the children express their feelings through art. They also get to play a variety of games.

Monika

The Nativity

The Nativity/Carol Concert is being held in St.Joseph's Church on Wednesday,7:00pm. This year it is about the fourth wise man called Artaban,who got lost in the middle of the desert. The actors are Year 5 children, and both the Junior and Senior choir will be providing the singing.

WE HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY!!!!!!!
Derline

lid

New to the school is the LiD programme where children receive a topic to research and investigate for a year, and become an expert on that topic. Children from all over the world are taking part, including the 6 from each year group here in St. Joseph's!
By Mia:)

road safety poster competition

MR.Connolly has set up a road safety poster competition to do in our learning log. I'm sure every one has done their best to make their posters great. There has been different topics to describe such as:
crossing the road
seat belts
be careful when you drive
road signs
and lots more!!!!
I'm sure the winner will be announced soon
Aoife :)conor$

PHSE day

Next week, on Friday it's PHSE day. There will be lots of activities including first aid with the St.John's ambulance people coming in. During this day, there will be lots of activities to do with health, getting on with people and taking care of ourselves. Thank you Mr Connolly for organising this for us.

Road Safety

Next week the week beginning the 21st is Road Safety week, where the children will be learning about their safety crossing the road and looking out for cars.
Be careful and look out for cars. BE SAFE!!!

Christmas dinner raffle

On Thursday 15th of December, The Friends of St. Joseph's raffle will be held during the Christmas Dinner. Tickets will be available to buy, and there are lots of prizes! Hope you get some tickets, and Good Luck!
Aoife and Noelle

100 club

Every year,the Friends do a 100 club raffle. Unfortunately, this year there are not enough people. The draw costs £12 for the year and will be drawn once a month. Please join to help the friends!
by Aoife xx:)

Christmas dinner

On Thursday, 15th of December,our school is hosting our annual Christmas dinner. Don't worry, even if you are usually packed lunches, you can join in just for that day but you need to pay £1.70. The real fun on the day is watching our teachers serving at the hatch - trying to get us to eat brussels sprouts!
Enjoy!

Isabelle and Monika

Year 4 topics and other cool stuff

This term in science, Year 4 are learning about insulation and keeping warm. This will help them know what to wear during winter, and how to keep drinks hot - or cold!

The Healthy Food Competion

During this month lots of people in St.Joseph Catholic Junior School took part in a competition to promote Healthy school dinners.The winner was Alesha Young in 3SN and there was 8 runners up and they were Kacper Balij 3SN,Zara Ojo 3SN,Zyrell Dickson 4SC,Rhianna Bennet 5MD and Hannah Torphy 6LO and Monika Njoroge in 5LB wrote how to prepare her food.The winning meal was cooked for the school last Wednesday
And well done to all who took part.

Aoife and Derline

christmas disco

The Friends'Christmas disco is coming up on the 7th of December in St. John's in Sundon Park and we hope that we will all be able to buy a ticket (£2 each)and come along. Not only will there be music, dancing and prizes, there may be a very special visitor! Hope you can come!
by Aoife and Mia

Up on the roof

Just as you probably have noticed, we are having the Library roof repaired. Everyone must stay on the main playground and stay away from any building materials in the Year Six area. It is for our own safety! The roof has been damaged for some time, so when it has rained, the ceiling in the Library hasleaked. Hopefully, when they finish repairing it, leaks will be a thing of the past. Just remember, stay away from the Yr 6 area!

Monika and Grace

The new football book for playleaders

We have just introduced a new book for Football at lunchtimes, to help organise who was where in the line and prevent disputes. It's a big help for many people including you and the playleaders. Its a great way to keep the football going smoothly, or otherwise there will be no football and we know you don't want that!

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Queen Invitation Competition-2011

There's a competition to Invite the Queen to Luton
On the 20Th November 2011 the Queen and Prince Philip will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary. We would love to invite them here - Luton to celebrate. All children and young people of Luton are being asked to design the front of the invitation that will be sent to Buckingham Palace.

Visit the project website and read/download the full guidelines.
Your entries must either be emailed to competions@loveluton.org.uk

Good luckkkk!!!
Tino

blue day

On the 16th of November it is blue day representing Anti Bullying Week.
We are allowed to wear:
blue accessories
blue scarves
blue coats
And much more
by Aoife
PS- you must still wear your uniform

Remberance day

This Sunday is Remembrance day, where we have 2 minutes silence to think about the Soldiers that have died in the wars and others that have died in our family.

School Buddies

The caps have arrived, and we can now see our new School Buddies on the playgrounds each breaktime. What's a school buddy? It is someone who you can trust, someone you can rely on, someone who will be your friend. If you are down find your school buddy and they WILL CHEER YOU UP.

Eloise

Guy Fawkes Night

This Saturday was Bonfire Night, in other words Guy Fawkes night. That day is called Guy Fawkes day because Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament. Unfortunately, Guy Fawkes hired a very unreliable person, that informed his friend in Parliament that they were going to blow up Parliament on that day and his friend reported him to the King. Guy Fawkes was executed, along with his fellow conspirators.
That's were we get Bonfire Night. I hope you all had fun watching the fire works!

Monika

poppy appeal

Last week,some year sixes sold Poppy's to the whole school. The money goes to the royal British Legion. We hope everyone gave a generous donation towards the charity. The money helps families with someone that has died.They also help soldiers with injuries.

Grace

Wrap up warm

As the weather gets colder, the clocks go back and the nights get darker,we need to wear warm clothes and wrap up in coats. Remember to wear a coat to school because you will need it at break time in this cold weather. Gloves and scarves will also be a good idea too.
So, wrap up warm and enjoy the winter!

Grace

Trick or Treat

Can you believe we are in school on Halloween? In the past, it has happened very rarely, but hopefully it won't happen as much in the future!
Are you going trick or treating this year?
When you go out Trick or Treating, don't eat too many sweets as we have school the next day and don't stay out too long! Remember, if houses have pumpkins out then it is safe, but if not... Just stay away from those houses. Have a trick up your sleeve because some people are quite cheeky and will ask for a trick. Plus, it will probaly bring you more sweets too!
Monika

Sports hall athletics

On Friday the 7th of October, 18 of the year 6 kids went to the Sports Hall Athletics event in the Regional Sports centre in Stopsley. After taking part in running, jumping and throwing events, we came 5th overall. We are proud of our accomplishment though some thought we could have done better. Nonetheless, the team had a great time!
Aoife Mc and Eloise

Wear it pink

To support the breast cancer campaign, St Josephs Catholic Juinor school are asking students to wear some pink accessories such as pink socks, pink ties, pink hairbands etc. on Tuesday 18th October. But no pink hair dye! There will be a cup with a pink ribbon in each classroom where students can put a small donation. All the money will go towards breast cancer campaign.

Isabelle

welcome

Welcome back to a brilliant new school year, that we can hopefully achieve very high standards of both education and talents and skills. We have had some new children join us in each year group and we all hope that they settle in well and enjoy their time here a St.Josephs.

Mia

New Staff

St Joseph's Catholic Junior School would like to warmly welcome our new teachers, Miss Campbell and Miss Ruane who have joined us this year, and our new teaching assistants, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bean and Mrs Welch. We are sure they will all settle in well at St Josephs.
Isabelle

Construction Club

Construction club is a games club run by the Family Workers, for all years on different days.There are games such as Lego and meccano which are used to build houses,towers and silly faces. A number of children said it was fun and enjoyable.They love contrution club!


THANK YOU FAMILY WORKERS

Grace

Chess Club

As Chess Club was a great success last year, Mrs.Stevenson has decided that, with Mr Rigby's help, she will try again this year. So far, the year 5s are having a great time. A year 5 said "I really enjoy the club. It's a chance for us to learn how to play chess!" The child said it also makes you smart. Concentration helps to win the match. Maybe we have some future professional chess players! Or maybe not.

Anyway, we love all your clubs so keep them going Mrs.Stevenson!

Monika

And we're back!

Holidays!

Wishing all the St. Joseph's Family a well deserved, relaxing and safe Summer break! See you all in September!

5BG

last 3 days of school year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

St.Joseph's now has an exciting 3 days ahead of them because the timetable has changed from our usual lessons to more fun activities. On Monday we are meeting our new teachers,on Tuesday we are watching DVDs and partying and on Wednesday we are bringing in our toys and games. And then HOLIDAYS!

Noelle

MEETING THE NEW TEACHERS!!!!!!!!!

Today the 18Th of July everyone except year six met their new teachers. Some were very happy with the decisions that were made and some were less sure, but I'm sure during the year they shall grow to love their teacher.
As we have all moved up one year group, we are expected to set good examples of those younger than us!! That means wearing our uniform correctly and excellent behaviour. Hope we have a good time next year/term especially year 5 who are going to be year 6 as it's their last year in St.Josephs Catholic Junior School...

End of year

It is coming to the end of the year and its that time when we become a higher year in our school career !! Most of the children in year six are very excited to be moving on to high schoool!

Mia

Year 5 science day (SPLATS)

Some year 5 students made their way to Cardinal Newman to learn more about science. Most of them came back with a big smile on their faces and they had completed some scientific experiments.

Students
Practising
Learning
And
Teaching
Science

Chess tournement nearly over

On the 7th of July, the chess tournament to see who is in the semi-finals was held. The winners of the matches are:
Benedict
Ethan

Rematches of the last tournaments are to be held sometime this week {11th July.
The people playing are :
Derline v Luca
Dominic v Louis
Aran v James

We wish everyone the best luck and that they get through to the semi-finals and for those who win, well maybe they will win the finals too.

Monika and Grace

The Golden tickets

The Golden tickets are a new reward option in this school. They can get you into lunch earlier than normal and let you chill out in the library for the rest of the lunch time!!!The golden tickets are wonderful and is obviously brilliant!!!!
The children who get picked are children who help around the class and be respectful to all their class mates.They have to work hard and over their expectations to achieve this award.


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sports day winners!!

Congratulations all. Unfortunately only 1 house can win, but every one's a winner at heart. The overall winner of sports day was............. BENEDICT!

Mrs.Boyle

After a lovely experience teaching at St.Joseph's Catholic Junior School, Mrs.Boyle is sadly retiring. She has been through many jobs in her career,but she has enjoyed her time teaching the most. Mrs.Boyle is a brilliant teacher, and has been of great support to many children, parents and teachers alike! She will be sadly missed, and we wish her well!

Grace

Year 6 production

An exciting Yr 6 production is taking place in St.Joseph's this week.The title is Marvellous Marie, about a polish lady,Marie Curie. Mr Cowling, the Year 6 staff and the Year 6 children have been working hard on rehearsals, scenery, tickets and programmes. There are 2 dates for performances, Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th of July. But unfortunately families will not be able to come on Thursday, as the performance that afternoon is just for the Junior school children. Tickets are available at the front office for £2.50. Come along to see how talented we are!! You are sure to enjoy it!

Noelle

The Butterflies

We have now let all the butterflies go!! Except one of the butterflies hasn't came out of their cocoon. There was loads of goo which look like blood as the butterflies emerged. All the butterflies have got the same pattern! They are really pretty!!


Imogen xx

work experience coming to school

For two weeks some pupils from Cardinal Newman will be coming to our school for work experience. They will be moving around year groups and classes looking around. It doesnt mean that they will become teachers!After those two weeks other pupils will come.



tino

Yr6 fundraiser

Our year 6s are organising a lovely fund raiser for the rest of the school,next Friday! There will stalls, sweets and lots of lovely things to do! Bring in some money and help their fundraising efforts!

Mia

new pupils, new staff, new year group and new start

SCHOOLS NEARLY OUT! but next term we have new surprises. From new staff to new pupils. From one year group to another but don't forget its all going to be a new start.So good luck
T.

Clocks in Playground

The clocks have been very helpful during our school day so we can now get to lessons on time.

miax

Sports day !!!!!!!

On the 6Th of July 2011 it will be sports day!!! Its a time when year groups gather together to show off there skills of sports. There's awesome sports like:

3 legged race
egg & spoon race
obstacle course
relay course
80 metre
50 metre
jumping (stand and run)
throwingSetc.

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New time when school ends.

Parents have always had to wait quite a while for their Junior children when they have already collected their Infant children. So, when all the junior children come back from the summer holidays, school will now end at 3:25. It usually ends at 3:35! A letter was sent out by Mrs.Lee to see what the parents think. So now the school will end at 3:25.! :)

Imogen

Going to the airport

A couple of months ago, the Luton airport set a competition to design a picture to go into their multi-faith room. In 5LB, a girl called Laelite was one of the many children across the town to win. At the airport, people amalgamated the pictures together to make one final design. Children in 5LB were extremely excited as they were going to the airport, as a prize. Laelite and her class were invited to eat their lunch in the multi-faith room. At the airport, children in 5LB enjoyed there day out. Watching passengers leave in planes, Miss Binnington and her class longed to go on holiday!

Monika

The Attendance Trip

The kids in our school, who have had perfect attendance all year, are going on a special day out. It was all arranged by the family workers. Thank you to all the people like Mrs.Stevenson and Mrs.Naughton for organising this and for keeping tabs on our attendance during the year! This is a lovely trip that the children will remember for a long time.

Eloise.

Jubilee tournament part 2

It's been weeks since the Jubilee tournament kicked off, and games are still taking place. The weather has prevented some matches, but every class in every year group is working hard. Some possible football stars of the future!!
Come on people you can do it!

The caterpillars came!!!

As part of our Life Cycles work, Year 5 classes have had caterpillars in our rooms for the last week or so. Our class has 9 caterpillars, which have grown huge over the few days, and have now become chrysalis. We have moved them into the 'Butterfly Garden' net. Maybe next week we'll have butterflies!!

school summer fete

The students in st. Joes have been over-excited about the coming of our school fete. As part of the fete pupils in school had to design a poster persuading people to come along to the Fete, which is on Sunday, 10th July, 12 o'clock til 4 pm on the School Field. The winner of this poster competition is yet to be announced.

Noelle.

chessington for year 6

The last days of school this year are arriving(BOO!) and year 6 have finished their sats(YAY!) and to celebrate the great achievements and their time in St.Joseph's they have been treated to a trip to CHESSINGTON WORLD OF ADVENTURES(those who didnt get to go to Kingswood).It was a fun day out for them and the teachers said they behaved beautifully + year 4 and year 5 got the big playground all to themselves :))))

tino

Yr6 displays

At the moment year 6 are doing all about the rain-forest in there creative curriculum
lessons.They will be learning about the nature of plants and animals.
Mia

Zone Sports Returns

The North Zone Sports was a fabulous event. Our school did very well and maybe one day we will see our old school friends in the Olympics in 20 years time.It was a fantastic event and we hope to do it again soon.

The successful ones among us will be going to represent the school in the Town Sports on 6th July.

Grace.

Sports day

Sports day is coming up soon! Everyone is very excited. Remember, it takes place on the 6th of July. We all hope you can make it! Year 5 and 6 in the morning, and Year 3 and 4 competitions will be in the afternoon. We hope the weather is good! Encourage your Mums and Dads to get ready for the Mums and Dads races!
Isabelle.

Year 3 Celebration Mass

As it has been a special year for the new children that joined St Joseph's Junior School in September, the Year 3s are having an end of year Celebration Mass. In the morning of the celebration mass, our youngest students have been doing workshops, including decorating cookies, making bookmarks and badges.
On the 24th of June, children in Year 3 have been conscientiously preparing for the Mass. All parents of year 3 children have been invited to come along. Lucky them, they will be given the cookies their children have decorated.
A lovely end to this special year.

Monika

summertime

Its the start off summer!!!!!!!! This is the time girls get to wear summer dresses and sandals.And as for boys , shorts.
yay! It was the started of summer on the 21st. The school is also waiting for our 2011 summer fete.

The Chicks come to visit

There was great excitement in classrooms around the school this week when the 9 newly hatched chicks came to visit! By the end of the session, the chicks were exhausted!
And many of us got over our fear of feathery creatures!

New Canopies!!

As some are aware,the Year 3 playground now has new canopies which have been fantastically done. The canopies have been on the school wish list for many years. Mrs Lee is glad that they have been successfully finished. We will all benefit from the shade in the summer, and 5BG and 5LB are pleased to have such a useable extension to their classrooms!

Noelle.

Holidays are coming!

5 weeks left of school.So much work to be done before the summer break!!! Sports day, the summer fete, the Year 6 production, tidying rooms and sorting out stuff!! We'll certainly deserve the holiday when it comes! And so will the teachers!!

Aaron

Chess Tournament.

Year 5 have been doing a chess tournament for the last 3 weeks. We have still got a few re-matches to complete. It's been really fun and exciting although it can be quite nerve wracking! Sadly its coming to an end. Mrs Stevenson and Mr Rigby have been very kind to give up their time, and have been judging each of the matches very carefully!!:) Keep watching for the winners!

Imogen

Zone sports

Tomorrow, some students are taking part in North zone athletics competition at Iknield high school. It will be a fantastic event and we wish all the children participating the very best of luck.
Grace

Tudor Times in Year 5

This term, year 5 are learning about the time from 1485 to 1603.Learning about the Battle of Bosworth, they have wrote their radio and newspapers report on the War of the Roses.Searching about the Tudors, famous and poor, year 5 were given the chance to draw a tudor character. The second oldest year group in the school foundthe tudors family tree and their time line.

Kingswood

Year 6 are extremely excited because their amazing trip is quickly approaching. Don't worry if you or your child can't come, they will be going on a spectacular trip to Chessington and lots more! We all wish you a lovely trip and have fun!

Isabelle

Jubilee Tournament

The annual Jubilee Football Tournament kicked off this week, despite the inclement weather, and the complex procedure of putting up goals!!
Good luck to everyone taking part!

Lunchtime games

some teachers are getting involved in lunchtime activities with the children.For example
chess
Art
board games
These activities help children make new friends from the lovely games they are offering.


Grace

all about yr6

Yr6 puipls have been busy this year, going to compititions such as netball, football
and their amazing treat is a experiance at kingswood on the 20th of June.


Mia

Back to school

We have all just come back from a wonderful week long holiday. Maybe you went on holiday somewhere hot and sunny, or cold and dark. Well we only have 7 weeks before the 6 week summer holiday. So work hard and it will be the summer holidays before you know it.
Aoife and Eloise

Back to school

Dr Who!

A very exciting experience!! And sort of scary! A great day out!

Our School Council

Our school council have been working hard to make good changes to our school.The recent ideas have been about a big clock in our school playground which was put in at April 2011. We would like to say thankyou to all our school council for making our school a happy place to be.

Yr6 sats continued

Some of year six have had the bug and have done extremly well to come in and complete their sats pages.

Yr6 SATs

Year 6 have been working extremley hard with their SATs and have deserved all the lovely things they have  been rewarded with,such as ice lollys and drinks, fun on the field and lots more!  We know that Year 6 will have done very well when they get their results!


Mia

Attendance Award

Who has the atendence award?
At the moment it's 6MK, but that may well change later this week when this half term's winners are announced!
It could be us!

Dr. Who Experience

All of Year 5 are looking forward to theirschool trip on Thursday, to The Doctor Who experience in London.     We have heard it is brilliant, so are sure to enjoy it!

Year 5

Playleaders

As the year is coming to an end, some of year 5 have been training up to become playleaders in year 6. The playleaders are there to help other people and make sure ever.ybody is having fun. They are always happy to help and they organise and keep an eye on the playground equipment, watched over by Miss Burns.

Grace

Royal Wedding Tea Party

On the 28th of April ,the day before the Royal wedding, St Joe's celebrated it by dressing up and having a tea party! That afternoon, the entire school had a party and ate  big amounts of food, waving flags and bunting!

Later on we went on the field and had lots of fun. It was a memorable day!

Welcome to St Joe's Blog

Welcome to our first venture into blogging! We hope you will enjoy following us as we update you on the many exciting activities going on in St. Joe's.