Our Year 5 Boys football team had an amazing morning on Frday 24th March at Fulham FC's training ground. They got the chance to visit the grounds the 1st team train on and play football inside the brand new state of the art indoor dome. The festival itself was focused on playing matches and having fun as oppose to winning medals and trophies, this gave our team great encouragement to play football the right way. As a team they improved throughout the festival and managed to finish in 4th place overall. A big well done to Isaac who managed to hit the crossbar during the crossbar challenge and he came away with a medal for himself. The boys also got the chance to meet Billy the badger (Fulham's mascot) and we enjoyed a photo with him. This was a great experience for the team who where often playing against whole year 6 teams and done very well throughout. 

The year 6 mixed football team made up of 4 boys and 4 girls from year 6 made it 2 finals in 2 weeks for team SJP, having already qualified for the table tennis finals earlier in the month. They managed to remain undefeated the whole afternoon winning 5 games and drawing 1 meaning they qualified from the group as winners. It was a great performance from the year 6 team who worked effectively as a team and only conceding 2 goals thanks to great goal keeping from Sophia and Gabriel. Christian was the player of the afternoon managing to score in every single game. We now look forward to the finals on Wednesday 19th April straight after the Easter holidays.

On Tuesday 14th March, the year 4 gymnastics squad made St Joseph's history by winning our 1st ever gymnastics medal in a borough competition. The key steps 2 team consisting of Savannah, Zofia, Christopher and Oliver have been working so hard leading up to the competition. Last year the team came a very respectable 5th place and Mr Ford saw the potential back then. After endless amounts of 8 am training the teams hard-work finally paid off as they finished the event with an impressive team score of 113.7 picking up the bronze medal. The event is made up 3 strands of gymnastics floor routine, vault and body management. The teams vaulting was very impressive with every team member scoring over 9.5 for their vault attempts. The competition is huge within the Kingston Borough and has 18 different primary schools taking part, as a 1 form school this achievement is exceptional and as a school we should be very proud of our amazing gymnasts. The key steps 3 team also took part in the borough comp and came 14th place against some very tough opposition. Well done to all and thank you to parents for supporting their children with training and competition. 

Team SJP played their fourth cluster league match on Friday 10th March, having won their previous 3 home games they travelled to Burlington, New Malden in unfamiliar surroundings. The game started off very close with Christian Ronald & Decari Branker going close early on. It wasn't long until early SJP pressure payed off and Ronald made the breakthrough with a superb finish to cap off a great team move. SJP kept up the pressure and Burlington went close towards the end of the half with Gabriel Kadir being forced to make a great save. SJP took the advantage going into half time with the score at 1-0. 

 

The 2nd half started in similar fashion to the 1st, but a lapse in concentration in defence gave Burlington a one on one chance which they finished comfortably. Having just conceded Mr Ford looked for a response from his team and Ronald was on hand to supply a superb individual run and finish. Burlington again equalised with a header from a corner. The game was finely poised at 2-2, it was Ronald again who completed his hat-trick with a tidy finish from the edge of the box. With the win in touching distance, Burlington never gave up and eventually managed to grab a very late equaliser to make the game an incredible 3-3.

 

Great game for the neutral not so good for Mr Ford's heart rate, team SJP remain unbeaten in the league and stay top by 1 point with 1 game to play.

Team SJP into borough table tennis finals

 

St Joseph's year 6 table tennis team took part in the Kingston borough qualifiers yesterday for the first time in the schools history. Not only did they have a fun afternoon but they managed to finish 2nd out of 5 schools which meant they qualified for the borough finals which will take place on 26th April. This is an amazing achievement for our school who have only just this year started playing table tennis, the introduction of our new outside table and table tennis after-school club has had a massive impact. A big thank you to Focus TT who have supported us with raising the profile of table tennis within the school. We can't wait to take part in the finals against the best table tennis players in the borough.

St Joseph's had a great day celebrating World Book Day 2017 on Thursday 2nd March. We chose to mark the occasion by dressing in our pyjamas and bringing in our favourite bedtime story to share. Each class was visited by different teachers across the school to share their favourite childhood books. Reading related activities took place across the school throughout the day, and we also wrote the first St Joseph's whole school story. Each class was given a time slot to contribute a paragraph to a story following on from what another class had written. Each part had to contain a special or unusual object that the teacher had brought in. At the end of the day, we had a special assembly where each teacher read out their class' section to reveal the whole story. You can read the full story in children's news.