St Joseph’s Catholic Primary has been named Kingston Active School of the year.

The school was chosen at an awards ceremony in the Guildhall last week for “showing exceptional effort in promoting healthy, active lifestyles” and was praised for “focusing on different aspects of health, including emotional, mental, physical and nutritional”.

The school has lots of initiatives encouraging physical activity and healthy lifestyles, from the weekly Wednesday Wake Up session that attracts many children each week, to the termly KS2 fun runs around the Fairfield.

The award was presented by world champion runner and Olympic competitor Mark Richardson.

Six sports leaders, pupils who are ambassadors for promoting a healthy and active lifestyle at the school, were there to collect the prize, along with governors and head teacher Sarah Keefe.

Mr Ford, the PE coordinator at St Joseph's, said: “It is a remarkable achievement for our school and is evidence of the incredible journey we have been on to create an active healthy environment at our school and in the local community.”

Sports leader Josh O'Shea said: “It was great to receive a special award for all the hard work we do at being active.”

 

Local Newspaper Report

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St Joseph's Year 5 & 6 Girls football team have been practising every lunchtime since September with Mr Ford & Coach Jamie from FA Lidl scheme.  On Friday 3rd November they took part in their 1st match of the season against a very strong opposition in Surbiton High School.  The girls were very excited and spirits were high as they put on the blue St Joseph's football kit for the 1st time. Every girl was excited at the prospect of representing their school on our home pitch against another school. The practice began to show through as St Joseph's took an early 2 goal lead, with goals from star striker Melanie & Jenifer. The football was fast and frantic and Surbiton began to grow into the game and eventually managed to get the score back to 2-2. The game was gripped and the excitement had attracted a very large crowd with children from St Joseph's and parents from both schools now taking up positions on the sideline. A good save from St Joseph's goalie Lys kept the score at 2-2. With just seconds to go,  Lys released the ball quickly over the heads of the surbiton defenders with speedy striker Melanie in pursuit,  she managed to latch onto the long ball and finish past the Surbiton goalie to make it 3-2 to St Joseph's. A cheer erupted from the onlooking crowd and St Joseph's managed to hold on to be victorious. The win will hopefully be the start of a great year of football for the girls team as they look to improve their skills further.

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St Joseph’s Christmas Fair

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On Friday 20th October, we had a fantastic afternoon experiencing what life was like as a child in the Victorian times. We had Victorian lessons concentrating on reading, writing and arithmetic. We also took part in singing (the national anthem) and did some still life drawing. The children all looked amazing, thank you to all the parents for all the effort with the costumes!