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Mission Statement

The full staff of St Joseph’s will serve the Crossgar community and its surrounding areas through the provision of a caring and effective Catholic Education which will enable children to maximise their potential for their whole development- Academic, Religious, Personal and Social.

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Welcome to St. Joseph's

crest_200Welcome to St Joseph’s Primary School. I hope you find this website helpful in learning about St Joseph’s, its purpose and practice, its standards and expectations, the scope of its academic provision and the diversity of its extra-curricular activities.

Of course, no website can convey the real atmosphere of a school and it is only through a visit or spending time here in St Joseph’s that you will discover the wonderful ethos present. We want our pupils to be happy, settled and confident in their school surrounding. We therefore strive to ensure the environment is safe, secure and friendly, which enables children to develop to their full potential spiritually, intellectually, socially
and personally.

We value strongly the partnership that exists between St Joseph’s, the parents and the community here in Crossgar. This is fundamental in supporting each child’s development and we look forward to maintaining and improving these links with you as an existing, or, as a new parent.

Mr. B. Coulter
Principal

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First Communion 2013

The children of Primary 4 celebrated their First Holy Communion on Saturday in the Church of the Immaculate Conception and St Joseph.  The weather luckily held off until after the celebration.  The singing, reading and responses from the children were excellent and reflected the amount of preparation the children had completed with Miss Flanagan and Miss Rea.  The choir was, as always, excellent, singing each song beautifully.  A special thank you to Mrs Watson, Dr Ellis, and Miss Heaney who prepared and supervised the choir.  Thank you also to Fr Henry, Kevin and Patricia for their help in preparing the booklets, the church and the mass.  Refreshments were enjoyed in the school afterwards by a large crowd.  Thank you to all the staff that helped prepare and serve these.  There are photos of the children on their special day in the Gallery, under Communion 2013.

New Equipment

St Joseph's received their new PE equipment today from Podium.  The school had been lucky enough to secure £4000 worth of funding from the South Eastern Education and Library Board for it.  The new benches, nets, mats, skipping ropes and gymnastic equipment will be of fantastic benefit to the physical development of the children.  The boys and girls were so excited to see the boxes opened and the bright new equipment unveiled today.  They are looking forward to making the most of it in the coming weeks.

 

                                                                                     P3 show off the new PE equipment in St  Joseph's.

Hurling Day

Children from St Joseph's enjoyed a morning of hurling at Teconnaught GAC on Tuesday 30th April.  The event was organised by Karol Keating, the Down GAA hurling coach that has been in the school this year.  First of all the children played a twelve a side match against Holy Family PS.  St Joseph's proved much too strong for their opponents and won the match comfortably.  All the children took to the game well but here were star performances from Josh, Tiarnan, Aaron and Dylan. 

The children had a break in the sunshine and then resumed with another match.  This time the teams were mixed with the children from Holy Family.  It was a really enjoyable morning which gave the children an opportunity to play the great game of hurling on a grass pitch for the first time this year.  Many thanks to Karol Keating and Teconnaught GAC for the use of their facilities.

Summer Term

 Dates For Summer Term 2013

Friday 19th April – P7 at Bee Safe Initiative in Ballymote Centre

Tuesday 30th April – Hurling tournament in Teconnaught for P7

Wednesday 1st May – P4 First Communion Retreat.

Friday 3rd May – Mother and Toddlers Fun with Rhyme

Monday 6th May – School closed for Bank Holiday

Saturday 18th May – First Communion at 10:30am

Friday 24th May – School closed for staff training.

Monday 27th May –School closed for Bank Holiday

Wed/Thur/ Fri 29th, 30th, 31st May – Residential for P6 and p7.

Friday 7th June - Mother and Toddlers Fun with Rhyme

Sunday 9th June – Sports Day

Tuesday 11th June – Minnie Music after school

Wednesday 12th June – End of Year Music Assembly

Friday – 14th June – Sponsored Walk

Friday 21st June – Leavers Assembly

Friday 28th June – School closed half day for Summer Holidays.