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• Sleeping out to help homeless

  Wed 08 Dec 2021 Laura Orr

  We are proud of two pupils who have took on an amazing task... here is a section from the Lancashire Telegraph, click the link to read more! 

  https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/19765394.children-among-sleeping-out-help-blackburn-charity-nightsafe/  

  A group of volunteers, some as young as nine, braved the cold weather to help raise funds for Nightsafe’s Youth Homelessness Projects.

  The charity hosted a sleep-out at Saint Silas Parish Church grounds in Blackburn on Friday night to highlight the plight of homeless young people.

  More than 40 people, including volunteers and people from local businesses, took part and helped to raise thousands for the charity.

  Among them was Ram Gupta who was joined by his son Rohan, 10 and his friends Ansh, also 10 and nine-year-old Anay

  

• Bronze medal winners

  Thu 25 Nov 2021 Laura Orr

  Our girls football team won the 'Bronze' medal in the Hyndburn Ribble Valley Tournament on Wednesday 24th November. Thanks to Mrs Cowperthwaite and Mrs Bailey for the training and support they give to our school creating a variety of sporting opportunities. 

  

• UK National Schools Open Championships

  Mon 22 Nov 2021 Laura Orr

  Helena took part in the UK National Schools Open championships on Sunday 21st November in Swadlincote Derby. We are delighted to announce that she won the Gold medal for St Joseph’s RC Primary School! Wow Helena we are so proud of you, well done!

  

• Mohammad and Fatima meet Little Amal

  Thu 04 Nov 2021 Mrs Orr

  Mohammad and Fatima meet Little Amal

  Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian girl, has reached the end of her epic journey across land and sea.Crowds of people have followed her trip of almost 5,000 miles (8,000km) from the Syria-Turkey border to the North West of England.The spectacle ended on Wednesday night when Amal entered Castlefield Bowl as part the Manchester International Festival.

  The giant puppet represents displaced children around the world and here in the North West, people in Wigan and Rochdale have already welcomed her with kindness and compassion.

  The Alshahada children attend the event in Rochdale to see Little Amal.

  If you look at the longer report in this link, at about 2.30 you can see a small figure in a white hat beckon to Amal - Mohamad was calling “Hello” and “Welcome” in Arabic, she went over and shook his hand. Fatima was next to him, photographing it all.

  https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-11-03/crowds-welcome-little-amal-to-manchester-after-travelling-from-syria  

  

• Plastic free Longridge

  Wed 06 Oct 2021 Laura Orr

  https://www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk/news/environment/longridge-celebrates-achieving-eco-goal-of-becoming-a-plastic-free-town-3398508 

   

  The delighted compere for the event was former Longridge mayor Town Councillor Steve Ashcroft. He was in office when a local schoolgirl Jeannie Wilkinson, eight, from St Joseph's school at Hurst Green, wrote to the council with a plea for the council to make Longridge a leader in the fight against excess use of single use plastic and become a plastic free town. She had declared: "We really must do something."

  Jeannie was unable to attend Saturday's celebration but the award was presented to current Longridge mayor Coun Bryan Dalgleish-Warburton on her behalf by another pupil from St Joseph's Matilda Blunden.