St Joseph's News and Events

• Brentwood Diocese Citizenship Awards

  Tue 11 Jul 2023

  Each year Bishop Alan celebrates the young people in our Diocese through the citizenship awards. These awards recognise inspirational children throughout Brentwood Diocese, and a wonderful event is held at Brentwood Cathedral. This year St Joseph's nominated Dior in Year 5. 

   

  'Dior has demonstrated resilience, strength and independence whilst taking on the role of main carer for her Mum over the past year. She has remained determined and enthusiastic about her education and continues to always  think about others before herself. She is a great role model to those around her and always ensures that being kind is at the heart of how she conducts herself around school. Dior continues to serve others through her role as a Mini Vinnie at St Joseph's and has led many fundraising activities for the school. She has taken everything in her stride and Dior is a true inspiration to us all'.

   

  Dior was thrilled to receive her award from the Bishop, and enjoyed meeting all of the other children afterwards in the beautiful gardens at Cathedral House. Well done Dior, we are so proud of you! 

  

• Thriftwood Day 3

  Fri 07 Jul 2023

  This morning we have become ‘Kayak Ninjas’ with our activities on the lake. Some of us took on the inflatable demolition challenge. We’ve also thrown axes, taken on the Cresta Run and become bushcraft fire masters.

   

  All the children are exhausted from all the fun and will hopefully sleep well tonight. Children are expected to be collected from school at normal dismissal time.

  

• Campfire Day 2

  Thu 06 Jul 2023

  Campfire Day 2

  

• Thriftwood Day 2

  Thu 06 Jul 2023

  More photographs from day 2.

  

• Thriftwood Day 2

  Thu 06 Jul 2023

  Thriftwood Day 2

   

  The children (and the adults) have been busy taking part in activities from the moment they woke up.

   

  Today the children had the opportunity to experience many adventurous activities, they began the day with the water roller, zip line and archery, all our children were incredibly brave and loved the morning activities.

   

  After lunch the fun continued and the children took part in Kayaking, leap of faith, archery and axe throwing. All the children are having an incredible time and looking forward to the evening activities.

   

  More updates to follow..

  

• Thriftwood Day 1

  Wed 05 Jul 2023

  The children arrived safely at Thriftwood this morning and the sun was shining bright and has been all day  -apart from the brief shower this afternoon!! Today has been an exciting day and the children have already experienced a range of activities from Rafting, to Archery, Crate Stacking and Leap of Faith. The children have all set up their tents for their evening and have begun settling into their new surroundings.  Tonight, we will enjoy team building games organised by the camp instructors. 

   

  

• Yr4 trip to BBC Earth experience.

  Tue 04 Jul 2023

  The Yr 4 children enjoyed their trip to BBC Earth where they experienced the extraordinary diversity of our seven unique continents, on the most epic scale featuring bespoke narration from David Attenborough.

  

• International Afternoon

  Mon 03 Jul 2023

  The children had a wonderful afternoon celebrating international afternoon.  A big thank you to all our parents/carers especially the Parent Pastoral Group and Parent Representatives for providing and serving the most delicious range of food to the whole school. 

   

  Without your support none of this would have been possible. Thank you again from all the staff and children! 

  

• Crest Awards

  Mon 26 Jun 2023

  As part of our STEM curriculum our KS2 children are taking part in the CREST Awards. CREST helps children become independent and reflective learners through enquiry-based project work.

   

  Whilst taking part in the awards the children will plan their enquiries, hypothesis, change variables, think carefully about fair testing and gather their findings in a variety of different ways. When the children complete their enquiry based projects they will become 'CREST SUPERSTARS'.

   

   

  

• Yr4 AIM High Maths workshop

  Thu 22 Jun 2023

  The Yr4 children got an opportunity to attend a Maths workshop. They enjoyed learning and were impressed how understanding simple patterns can be used in solving many mathematical concepts.