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• We've achieved a Platinum School Games Mark

  Wed 14 Jun 2023

  We are delighted to announce that St Joseph's has been awarded the Platinum School Games Mark for our commitment and engagement in the School Games for 2022/2023-2023/2024!

   

  The School Games Mark is a Government-led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community.  Schools in England are able to assess themselves across bronze, silver and gold levels of the Mark.

   

  St Joseph’s has achieved the Platinum School Games Mark after 5 years of retaining the Gold Mark. We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

  

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• Beacon Lighting Event to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

  Thu 02 Jun 2022

  On Thursday 2nd June, pupils from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School joined the Christchurch Town Council's Beacon Lighting Event to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The children joined the candle-lit procession from Avon Beach to Christchurch Quay led by a piper. The pupils held their very own handmade lanterns and joined other schools, the Guides and Scouts to enjoy the Beacon Lighting which took place at the same time across the country.

  

• Jubilee Day at St Joseph's

  Fri 27 May 2022

  St Joseph's celebrated the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a week of activities in school learning about the history of our country as well as learning the National Anthem. On Friday 27th May all children and staff dressed in red, white and blue and we invited the Deputy Mayor of Christchurch Cllr Vivienne Charrett along with our Governors, parish priest Father John Chadwick and Deacon Hugh Parry to join us in our celebrations. Children from Year 6 and Ducklings helped Mrs Rippon plant our Jubilee tree and a time capsule with items to remind future generations of this special year. Deacon Hugh led a blessing to mark this special event before the cutting of a stunning Jubilee cake baked by the talented Mrs Dunn. Mr Curran presented children from each class with a commemorative bookmark and parents were welcomed to school to enjoy a slice of cake to mark the event! 

  

• We've been awarded the School Games Gold Mark Award - again!

  Wed 18 May 2022

  We are delighted to announce that St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School has achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year.

   

  The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise school’s engagement (provision and uptake) in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

   

   

  At St Joseph's 95% of our KS2 pupils have participated in intra sport competitions.

  At St Joseph's 78%of our KS2 pupils have represented the school in inter sport competitions or festivals.

  St. Joseph’s have won the yr5/6 Indoor Athletics comp, the yr5/6 tag rugby comp, the yr4 football tournament and the yr3 /4 tri golf competition.

   

  We are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of physical activity and school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our events possible. We are committed to using the School Games to try and engage those young people who haven’t previously been active or represented our school and to try and ensure that all our students have a positive experience and want to try out new activities beyond school too in our community.

   

  We believe in the power of physical activity and school sport as a school and give opportunities to those young people that need it most either as a participant, leader, official or volunteer. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas linked to the five School Games outcomes and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

   

  We look forward to applying once again in 2023!

  

• St Joseph's in the news!

  Tue 04 Jan 2022

  We are delighted to report that St Joseph's has been named joint fifth in the top 10 primary schools in the south west in the Sunday Times Schools Guide 2022, which lists the top performing schools regionally and nationally.

  Please see the following article in the Bournemouth Echo.

• Active Recovery Curriculum

  Thu 25 Nov 2021

  Earlier this year the Youth Sport Trust commissioned a series of case studies into Active Recovery Curriculum ie. what schools were doing to help children upon their return to school after lockdown this year. We are proud to announce that St. Joseph's was one of only 7 primary schools in the country to be selected for this investigation due to our innovative REACTIVE8 programme. Please see attached report for more information.