St Joseph's Roman CatholicPrimary School
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It has been a great week in school. On Monday we celebrated the Feast of St Joseph with Mass followed by a mini ‘Easter Fair’ that was arranged by the Caritas Ambassadors to raise money for Jesuit Missions. The children enjoyed cakes, took part in competitions, played ‘Pin the tail on the bunny’, ‘Bat the rat’ and won eggs from the ‘grabber’ machine! We raised £500.14 for this great cause, thank you for all the support.
On Tuesday the Year 5/6 athletics team made their way to the ‘County Finals’ in Blackpool, we came 5th out of 14 schools and are extremely proud of the children, thank you to the parents and grandparents who supported the team and helped transport them to the event.
Raph in year 4 is trying to raise £1000 for a Ugandan child to be fed & educated with Desire Childcare Organisation this lent, by doing 1000 back handsprings on her trampoline! If anyone would like to support her by sponsoring one leap for £1 (or perhaps even a couple more) search “Raph Morley” on JustGiving.com https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WWkiGS-UUh2nykgR-5agyS-l54D9LUx2/view?usp=drivesdk Due to this amazing act of kindness and putting her faith into action Raph’s class will display the Caritas Award this term. Well done Raph!
World Thinking Day
Today the children who are part of the Guides, Rainbows, Beavers and Scouts dressed in their uniforms with pride to celebrate 'World thinking day'.
On Monday we had a visit from Lynne McWilliams from Jesuit Missions who discussed the Pope’s new vision ‘Laudate Deum’ and the importance of looking after our world. The children enjoyed an assembly followed by a workshop and were full of great ideas by the end of the day. We look forward to putting are thoughts into action through our ECO Leaders.
On Monday we had something to celebrate! We received our lovely Gold Award for the School Games Mark from the Sports Partnership team for our fantastic contribution to sport across the school! Here are two photographs of our children with the award and taking part in cross country, just one of our many extra-curricular activities!
It has been a busy sporting week here at St Joseph’s. On Tuesday our Year 5/6 football team took part in the ‘Kid’s Cup’ where we demonstrated real team spirit, not conceding one goal thanks to our defence and Gus in goals! On Thursday our ‘Girl’s Football Team’ joined the rest of the Ribble Valley schools at Bowland High School where the girls drew three and lost one – we must give Grace Hardman a shout out who showed a great commitment to the game. Mr Zolotarzcuk and I were very proud of the enthusiasm both teams demonstrated representing our school beautifully!
The flurry of snow did not stop our Year 5/6 children walk to Stonyhurst to view the replica of ‘The Shroud of Turin’ yesterday. They had a guided tour of the exhibition followed by activities. It was a wonderful opportunity to experience throughout Lent.
Mrs Turner took a group of Year 3/4 children to the launch of the SPAR LANCASHIRE SCHOOL GAMES LAUNCH 2023 at SPAR’s Headquarters where they enjoyed fun activities, met the Lancashire Lion mascot, had a tour around the depot and received many goodies to take away. Mrs Turner could not speak highly enough of the children who were a ‘delight’ from start to finish.
The netball team took part in their first event of the year at St Mary’s Hall. Our team excelled in every single match they played at the festival and demonstrated fantastic team spirit. Fatima and Jacob received a medal for player of the match but Mrs Turner said Tom Ward deserved a special mention for his performance both on the court and throughout training.