Dear Parent/Carer,

Forthcoming INSET

A reminder that this coming Friday 1^st July and Monday 4^th July the school will be closed to children due to staff training.

First Holy Communion

Best wishes to all the children who will be receiving the sacrament of First Holy Communion this Sunday.

Polli:Nation

As announced in last week’s newsletter, we have entered the three years in-school Polli:Nation programme. This is a project developed in response to the decline in the UK's pollinating insects and the demand from schools to broaden children's understanding of the links between pollination and food security and learn about protecting insect pollinators and their habitats. There is a special assembly this Monday, 27th June at 9:10am when the project will be launched.  Anyone who would like to volunteer to participate in this, alongside the children, please come along or contact Mrs Serle.

Sports Day – new date

Due to the waterlogged field this week, we have moved the sports day to Tuesday 5^th July,   weather permitting.  It will take place on the field between 9.30am and 11:30pm.  There will be the usual popular athletic events, as well as some more traditional races, such as the egg and spoon, sack race and obstacle race.  Parents/guardians, friends and governors are all very welcome to come and support the children as they compete. 

Parish Summer Fair

You are welcome to join others from the parish at the Summer Fair tomorrow from 2-4pm.  The school is running a sweet stall.

Education Mass

Pupils, parents and staff are invited to an Education Mass at 7pm on Thursday 30^th June at Clifton Cathedral.

St Thomas celebration weekend

Next weekend is the Feast of St Thomas.  The parish have lots of events going on to celebrate his feast day from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd July.

Shoes for Kenya

St Brendan’s 6^th Form College are collecting shoes to go to Kenya to help people avoid getting parasites in their feet.  If you have any shoes of a reasonable condition that you no longer want, please bring them into the office and we will take them to St Brendan’s for collection.  Thank you.

A Message from the PTFA to all parents, staff and friends of St Joe’s

Welcome to the newly (re)formed PTFA!  We hope to use this forum to get people together and raise money for the school, but above all to have some fun, and we very much hope you will join with us.  We will be publishing details of the committee, our aims & objectives, and future events as soon as possible, so look out for more details.

For anyone who would like to get involved but couldn’t make the initial meeting, we will be having an event planning session at 3.30 on Tuesday, 5 July at the school and would love to hear any ideas you have.

Catherine Ruffles & Laura Bradshaw Price (co-chairs)      

Email: PTFAstjosephs@bristol-schools.uk

Celebration  Assembly – different day of the week

There will be a celebration assembly on Tuesday 28^th June, where the following children will receive their headteacher’s award:  Ruby (Y1), Janek (Y1), Betty (Y1), Lyra (Y2), Anns (Y2), Christian (Y3), Nathan (Y5), Areeba (Y5).

Super Stars: Abay (R), Elsa, Edith (Y1), Franek, Nelson (Y2), Rian (Y3), Oliver M (Y5), Mack (Y6)

Sad Farewells

The staff and pupils will be very sad to say goodbye to some fantastic teachers and support staff at the end of this year. There will be plenty of opportunities to appreciate and thank them in the coming months and we will certainly miss them all.

Mrs Joseph

You may know that Mrs Joseph, who has been a teacher, Deputy Head and Acting Head-teacher at St Josephs for 25 years, will be retiring at the end of this year. We will certainly miss Mrs Joseph due to the enormous contribution she has made to the school over the years.

Mrs Darvill

Mrs Darvill, a teacher with us for 5 years will also be leaving at the end of this year, to enjoy spending more time looking after her little girl.

Mrs Mizen

Following 26 years working at St Joseph’s Mrs Mizen has decided it is time to enjoy some quality time with her family and friends and is retiring at the end of term. Many of you will have been supported, taught, encouraged and cared for by Mrs Mizen over the years.

Miss Gouveia

Miss Gouveia has been with us this year, and we have really enjoyed her sunny smiling nature, she has been very kind and caring to all the children she has worked with.

On behalf of the governors, pupils and staff I would like to thank them for their hard work and dedication to St Joseph’s and wish them happiness and peace in their new ventures.

Class teachers for 2016/17

We are delighted to welcome some new teachers to our school in September.

Mrs Baker will be joining us as our new Deputy Head.

Miss Gregory, Miss Pick and Miss Coates are also joining us as class teachers. We are also welcoming Mrs Serle and Mrs Okpiyalele as Higher level Teaching Assistants.

The class teachers for 2016/17 will be:

Reception class         Miss Finding

Year 1                         Miss Gregory

Year 2                         Mrs Ford and Miss Phillips

Year 3                         Miss Pick

Year 4                         Mr Mullen and Mrs Baker

Year 5                         Mr Conlon

Year 6                         Miss Coates

Children will meet their new class teacher on our changeover day which is on 19^th July.

Dates for Diaries

Sunday 26^th June 2016        -           First Holy Communion

Tuesday 28^th June                -           Year 5 Aquinas sports day at St Brendan’s

Wednesday 29^th June         -           SS Peter and Paul Mass in church 9.30am

                                                            New Parents’ Evening 5.30pm

Thursday 30^th June               -           Education Mass at Clifton Cathedral 7pm

Friday 1^st July                       -           INSET (school closed)

Monday 4^th July                   -           INSET (school closed)

Tuesday 5^th July                    -           Sports Day

Thursday 7^th July                   -           Y4 Presentation and Parents’ open
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Friday 8^th July                        -           Y1 Presentation and Parents’ open morning

Tuesday 12^th July                  -           Rec Presentation and Parents’ open
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Wednesday 13^th July           -           Y5 Presentation and Parents’ open morning

Thursday 14^th July                 -           Y2 Presentation and Parents’ open morning

                                                -           Prize giving 5.30-6.30 

Friday 15^th July                      -           Columbus sports day – Air Balloon

                                                -           Columbus music concert

Tuesday 19^th July                  -           Changeover day

Wednesday 20^th July           -           Y3 Presentation and Parents’ open morning    
 -           Year Six Performance to parents 7pm

Friday 22 July                         -           Leavers’ Mass 9.30am in church

                                                            END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

Thursday 1^st September      -           INSET (school closed)

Friday 2^nd September         -           INSET (school closed)

Monday 5^th September      -           First Day back after summer break for children
                                                           in Years 1-6

                                                                                   

Mrs Jackie McCarthy
Headteacher