We were very lucky to have a visit from the Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston to our school, Councillor Sushila Abraham. She was accompanied by her mace bearer, Brian O’Sullivan, who was the nephew of a previous head of St Joseph’s! She spoke to the children in an assembly about her role as Mayor and answered lots of interesting questions from the children. She then enjoyed a tour of our lovely school. We thank her for taking the time to visit our school. 

 

The children in our school took a part in the New Malden and Kingston Rotary competition. The children went to visit our local parks, observed the wild life, took photographs and drew observational drawings using their photographs. We are proud to announce that Jessica Stephens from Nursery won 2nd place in the 4-7years category. Congratulation, Jessica!

On Wednesday 23rd March the children took a part in mark making art workshop in our school. The children worked with an artist to explore different marks that they made with a variety of materials. 

This term, Year 6 have launched their own businesses as part of the ‘Putting Young Minds To Work’ course run by STRIDE on entrepreneurship. Over the last eight weeks, the children have spent their Wednesday afternoons learning about product development, finance, marketing and presentation skills.

 

The course culminated on Tuesday in the children pitching their ideas to a panel of business experts. Each group presented their PowerPoint presentations with real confidence and the judges were hugely impressed with the professionalism and maturity that the children demonstrated. We are hoping that the Enterprise Fair will go ahead in the summer term so that the children have the opportunity to promote and sell their products.

Below are some reflections about the STRIDE programme:

 

My wonderful Stride experience!

While working with Stride, I learnt how the government raises money. But, most importantly, I learnt how to work well as part of my team. My team was called ‘The Crafty 5’ and my role was the finance manager. I enjoyed my role because I learnt how to manage money and how to spend it appropriately. I am so glad that I was given this opportunity to be part of Stride and I just want to say thank you to Kath and Louise (Stride trainers) for helping us with everything.  – Lorraine

 

My experience of Stride was like no other. I have learnt so many new things such as the economy, how the government makes money and so many other skills. I especially learnt that a company is not easy to create and to maintain it is very tricky. But, when you do achieve these goals, you feel incredible. I have also become more responsible and independent when it comes to money. I mostly enjoyed how my team (Lemon Life) worked hard to be successful. – Daniel.

SCHOOL IS OPEN TODAY, 19TH MARCH AND FRIDAY 20TH MARCH

Team SJP took part in the KSSP borough gymnastics last week held at Chessington School. It was a fantastic competition hosted by Goodlife Gymnastics. Team SJP done extremley well having been practising in the morning before school with Mr Ford since the start of February. The year 3 & 4 team took home the team silver medal whilst Kamilla won individual and team silver to complete a fantastic afternoon of gymnastics.

 

 

 

Congratulations to Annabeth (Year 4), Naomi (Year 6), Besarta (Year 1) Max (Year 5) and Kirsten (Year 2) on recieving the Outstanding Learning Award this week. ​

All the pupils had great fun dressing up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day this year. They took part in lots of book-related activities across the day and there were lots of entries for our first 'Book in a Jar' competition. There were so many amazing creative efforts. Congratulations to Nelicia in Year 1, who won a book token for her entry.

Congratulations to the winners of the Outstanding Learning Award this week: Arissa (Year 5), Raymi (Year 3), Ivan (Year 4), Felix (Year 6) and all of Year 1 for being amazing detectives on World Book Day!