Year 3 and 4 children visited Hampton court palace on the 14th June to consolidate the learning they had been doing on the Tudors last half term. It was a fantastic day and the children found it an informative and exciting experience, especially the drama workshop!

A fantastic session led by Peter Cowley from the LA to update and inform us on being safe online: creating passwords, using social media ( Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat etc), playing games, chat rooms, mobile phones etc.

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The Year 6 children who are at Little Canada Adventure Camp on Isle of Wight are having a fantastic time. 23/5/17: Some children were awake from 5am with the excitement at the thought of what today would bring. Today's activities consisted of Quad biking, Problem Solving, Trapeze jumping and finding their way out of a Matrix. Keep up-to-date with everything via our Twitter @St_Josephs1

 

Year 4/5 take part in the Count on Us Primary Challenge!

 

On Tuesday, three children from St Joseph’s took part in the Count On Us Primary Challenge. This is a maths tournament involving over 100 schools across London. Sambavi (4C), Kevin and Dagem (5R) represented our school and put in a very strong showing working as a team to complete against 20 other schools in South West London.

Here is their report on the day:

 

In the maths tournament the first round was Tangrams which is a puzzle of 7 pieces which you put together to make shapes. The second round was Pentominoes which are similar to Tangrams. For the third round we had to make the number 24 using cards with four different numbers. For this round we switched tables and faced other schools! The final round was codebreaking where we had to identify the names of London bridges and reveal the coded message. Out of all the schools, we were the first team to crack the code!

 

We worked really well as a team and loved the experience!

The Year 6 Boys football team returned to school as champions last week, after securing a 6-2 win away at Kings Oak they managed to win the Kingston Cluster league by 1 point. After playing 5 games in total winning 4 and drawing 1 the team remained unbeaten in the league all season. Scoring in every game Christian Ronald was the leagues top scorer with 10 goals. Averaging 2 goals a game. This is the first time we have entered the league and in our first year we have managed to end as champions what an incredible achievement well done to all involved. The new trophy will take pride of place in our new trophy cabinet which as a school we keep on filling.

 

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.