St. Joseph’s National School

Welcome back to everyone in our school community to what promises to be another wonderful year.

Summer Camp was a great success and a very sincere thanks is extended to the parents and guardians who had the children in every day. The summer camp staff was exceptional as usual and many of the wonderful things done in collaboration with parents/ guardians during the camps are on display in the school.

Summer camp gave us to opportunity to try new approaches to playful learning, especially in the area of history and cultural belonging. New approaches that really impacted on children’s learning have been shared will the rest of the staff. All the children worked together on the theme of belonging and that has been extended into our teaching and learning focus this year.

We are hoping to gain the gold award from UNICEF and be the standard bearers as a Children’s Rights School. We will be focusing on Article 2 and Article 30… No Discrimination and Minority Culture, Language and Religion.

Our opening school Mass on Thursday 26th at 11 am in Holy Family Church promises to be a very inclusive mass and we look forward to celebrating with all our families and friends in the school community.

Thanks to all those who have already taken out pupil insurance as recommended by the Board of Management. It’s a wise thing to do, as it covers your child at home and at school 24 hours per day for the whole year.

From next week children will be bringing their hot lunch remains home in the new plastic boxes. This will give you the chance to really see how much they are eating and the menu choices that suit them. Please, as directed on the boxes, for health and safety reasons, never reheat the lunch remains.

Our Parent Project… . FACE TO FACE , a wall mural celebrating diversity ,created by class teacher, Mr. Molloy, has just had its first group of parent “painters”. We are hoping that one member from every family will get the chance to come to the school during the year to add their dash of colour. .. Check out our short video on progress so far.

God Bless