Our Christmas Tins campaign was well underway in November. As part of this campaign our Head Boy, Scott Dippiazza, offered to get his head shaved if we reached a target of 700 tins and other items. Not only did we reach this target but we doubled it. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to this. And a fond farewell to Scott’s hair on 22nd December!
There was an opportunity made available by the Art & Music faculty to come in to the school on 29th November for a Folio Presentation evening, with so many fantastic pieces of pupils’ work displayed. This was a great demonstration of the talent that we have here in St. Joseph’s.
Our House celebrations continued this month with the Feast of St. Andrew on 30th November. There was an assembly with the whole House and then a Mass in St. Matthew’s celebrated by Fr. Martin.
As part of the 16 Days of Action, the campaign against domestic violence, Mrs Cassidy arranged some activities for a White Ribbon Event in the school. This was a great way of getting involved in this National event, raising awareness amongst our pupils.
As part of our transition for the P7 pupils who will joining us next August, we had a number of our S5 pupils out visiting and helping out for the day. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed this and the feedback from the Primary was extremely positive.
Some staff put their baking skills to the test recently as they fought for the prize as winner of the St Joseph’s Bake Off 2016. The results were very impressive and the winner will be revealed soon!
Some members of our Youth St Vincent de Paul group joined Miss Curran and took part in the Santa Dash in Glasgow on Sunday to raise funds for their Homeless Appeal. Congratulations to all who took part and managed to raise some great sums of money for this cause.
On Monday afternoon our Caritas pupils managed to get a bit of time out of school as they headed to St Matthew’s Church for a retreat with Fr. Martin.
You can also keep up to date with the many things that are happening in the school, particularly in classes, by following the twitter accounts:
- School Twitter: @StJoAcad
- English Dept. Twitter: @StJoAcadEng
- Mod. Languages Dept. Twitter: @stjoacadmodlan
- Science Dept. Twitter: @stJoAcadSCI
- Social Subjects Twitter: @stjoacss
- Arts Dept. Twitter: @StJoAcadArts
- Health & Wellbeing Twitter: @StJosephsHWB
- RE Twitter: @StJoAcadRE
- Design & Technology Twitter: @stjoacad_tech
Forthcoming Events:
- Thursday 15th December Christmas Concert
- Friday 16th December Trip to ‘The Snow Queen’ at the Royal Conservatoire
- Thursday 22nd December S1 Panto Trip
- Friday 23rd December Last Day of term (school closes at 2.30pm)
