We would like to wish a peaceful Christmas break to all our boys and to the whole school community.
We look forward to seeing you all in the new year!
Yearly Archives: 2020
Christmas Newsletter 2020
To all our pupils, parents and the wider school community. As we approach the Christmas break we would like to thanks you for your continued support and wish you all a very peaceful break – we’ve all earned it!
You can access our school Newsletter via the link below.
We look forward to seeing you all healthy and hearty in 2021!
Our Winter and Christmas Art
We have been busy over the last while making our school fit for the season – here is a sample of some of our work!
St Joseph’s 5th classes get into the Christmas Spirit!
Here are Ms Molloy’s 5th Class Singing Christmas Carols (in a Socially Distant Way!)
Here Mr O Flynn’s class also performed The Night before Christmas
Here is Mr O’Flynn’s class performing their version of Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol.
Jingle Bell Rock!
Our classes have been getting into the Christmas Spirit!
Harry Clarke Virtual Art Workshop
Third class recently had the opportunity to participate in a virtual workshop with the Hugh Lane Gallery exploring the work “The Eve of St. Agnes” by Harry Clarke. The artist Megan Scott provided a very interesting introduction to the work of Harry Clarke. The Gallery sent us sketch pads where we used Harry Clarke’s stained glass window “The Eve of St. Agnes” to inspire our own sketches. Meghan then taught us the technique of sgraffito to create our very own stained glass windows.
Dance Party Projects for Hour of Code
Our students have been getting creative with Coding!
Pupils from 3rd to 5th class have been doing Dance Party Projects on the Code.org platform. In this Course the boys learn to create dancers and programme their dance moves, their size and colour, while changing the backgrounds and the choreography to match the music.
We think you’ll agree that they are impressive, We hope that you enjoy them as much as we did making them!
All of the Dance Choreography Projects can be seen here (click on a link to your class)
Ms Rooney
Ms Tynan
Ms Byrne
Ms Molloy
Ms Maher
Some of our Dances!
Firework by Alex (Ms Rooney’s Class)
If I Can’s have you by Hugh
(Ms Byrne’s Class)
Take on Me by Bobby D (Ms Molloy’s Class)
Well done Eric!
Congrats to past pupil Eric O’Sullivan who made his debut for Ireland versus Scotland last Saturday. Eric plays for Ulster and can be seen here, top right, on our school football team in 2008. He is the third past pupil to recently play for Ireland following on Jack McGrath and Niyi Adeolokun.
‘Active Break Every Day’ November Challenge
Joey’s boys love to be active and so we took part in an active challenge for November. Every day from November 9th until December 4th each class in St Joseph’s was asked to have a ten minute active break. These active breaks were done indoors and outdoors including activities such as running, dancing, exercise breaks, etc. Every single class did an excellent job and the active breaks seen across the school were spectacular. Well done boys!!
Student Council Report – December 2020
At the student council meetings this year we have looked at man
y subjects such as Covid, coping with Covid, Internet safety and cyberbullying. We made posters on what things we like to do to distract us from Covid. We included things like playing sports, going out in the fresh air and playing on our Xbox. We sent our suggestions and photos of our projects to Dr. Tony Holohan who was very impressed with what he saw. On cyberbullying, we went over the basics such as Stop Block and Tell, what platforms it is found on and we made posters on Internet safety. We hope everyone has a safe and peaceful Christmas.
Donnchadh and Ross (Mr. Brennans 6th class)