New Admissions- Become part of the St Joseph’s Family of Schools
Admissions for Saint Joseph’s Infant School
St Joseph’s Catholic Infant School is a Christ centred caring and effective learning community, where pupils aged 3-7 years celebrate through prayer and worship their love of God. Walking in the footsteps of Christ we work together to prepare our children to be resilient, resourceful learners, to love one another and help others. Our aim is to provide the very best learning experience for each and every child.
Saint Joseph’s Infant school has excellent transition with St Joseph’s Junior School and St Joseph’s Catholic Sixth Form Centre, providing a Catholic education from 3-18 years. If you would like to become part of our family of Catholic schools and you would like us to be partners with you, as your child take the first steps in formal education please contact:
Ms Julie Beaumont Headteacher on 01639 882579 or
Email: stjosinf@npt.school
Nursery Classes September 2021 and September 2022 To ensure that we allocate places to Catholic children as is our mission, we are now collecting names for those children born between 1st September 2018 and 31st August 2019 and 1st September 2019 and August 2020
Saint Joseph’s Catholic Pupil Profile
Our Pupil Profile: Our Values and Virtues
As a Catholic School in the Diocese of Menevia, we have embraced the Catholic Schools’ Pupil Profile, which teaches the children a set of eight pairs of virtues to be internalised and cultivated –
enabling them to grow in wholeness as fully rounded individuals in the image of God.
The pairs of virtues are:
- Grateful and generous
- Attentive and discerning
- Compassionate and loving
- Faith-filled and hopeful
- Eloquent and truthful
- Learned and wise
- Curious and active
- Intentional and prophetic
At St Joseph’s Infant School, the children are growing to be:
Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, now and in the future.
Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.
Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.
Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.
Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relations between people, and the world.
Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.
Curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better
Intentional in the way they live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience and prophetic in the example they set to others.
Each half Term we explore ways in which we can develop in our virtues and values.
Welcome Back! New Year! Exciting New beginnings
Dear Parents, Carers, and children,
Welcome back to a new academic year, a fresh beginning for everyone. We are so looking forward to seeing everybody on Monday morning. I hope that you have had a great summer holidays and I’m sure that the children are ready for the exciting new learning and challenges that we have planned for them.
Organisation of School day for September
The systems we have in place have been successful in keeping everyone safe. In September, as we transition into a new norm, we will continue with a staggered approach to the start and end of the school day. As we are finishing building work in the front side yard there will be a few changes for the next few weeks.
| Start | Location | Pick Up | Location | |
| Nursery
Mrs Coughlin |
9:00 | Nursery | 11:30 | Nursery |
| Reception –Mrs Mapp/
Mrs Torrance |
8:55 | Teachers will meet children by the Front Ramp (next to my office) to enter into the main yard. | Week 1
6th-10th at 1:00 pm Week 2 13th -17th at 2:00 pm Week 3 2:50 |
Main playground, left hand side |
| Reception /
Year 1 Mrs James |
8:50 | Main Entrance | Year 1 finish at 2:50
Reception children Week 1 6th-10th at 1:00 pm Week 2 13th -17th at 2:00 pm Week 3 2:50 |
Main playground, right hand side |
| Year 1/ Year2 Mrs Turner | 8:50 | Front Ramp | 2:50 | Front Ramp |
| Year 2 Mrs Owen
(Miss W) |
8:45 | Front Ramp | 2:45 | Front Ramp |
Breakfast Club
Will be available for Years 1 and 2 from Monday 6th September 2021. Whilst Reception children can access Breakfast Club from Monday 20th September. Please complete and return consent from to our Cook Mrs Pat McGimpsey. Drop off from 8:20
Belated congratulations to Pat on celebrating a big birthday during the Summer holidays.
Lunchtime Routines
We hope to return to using the dining hall for lunch. Initially with Reception, then adding other Year groups as the month progresses. Reception children will stay for lunch from day one. School hot dinners are available, or if they prefer, children can bring a lunchbox. Please remember to write your child’s name clearly on the lunchbox to avoid confusion and tears. As a Healthy School, wherever possible, could we encourage healthy choices.
Water Bottle- clearly labelled
Hydration is vital to good learning and wellbeing. Please send your child daily, a clearly labelled bottle filled with water.
Prayers to Our Lady , May Procession, planting prayer gardens
Monsignor Joseph joins in our May Day celebrations.
Pentecost -Fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down on the Disciples.
CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF ENGLAND AND WALES
A message from the Bishop’s Conference in Wales
Dear Young People,
Fifty days after Easter, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down on the Disciples.
Feeling afraid and uncertain, the Disciples locked themselves away: Jesus had been their friend helping them and now He was no longer with them. Whilst praying, the Holy Spirit descended on the Disciples and they became Apostles. An Apostle is someone sent out to share the message of Jesus with everyone and that is what the Apostles did – they went out spreading the Good News to everyone. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we must have the courage to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. We must stand up for what is right in our own community and in the global community.
Many of you will remember the letter Pope Francis wrote called Laudato si’ asking all of us in the whole world to take care of our common home.
Pope Francis says that climate change affects us all, but it is the poorest communities who will suffer the most.
We all have a responsibility to take care of our common home, and you can make that change through your choices as an individual in your home, school, parish and local community. Recycling materials correctly, reducing food waste, not wasting water, switching the lights off and thinking about the way you travel to school.
Young people are passionate about making these important changes. Not only are you probably already doing them, but through your actions you are also educating others around you!
Two important events are happening in our country this year. In June, the G7 will take place in Cornwall. World leaders from the seven most powerful countries in the world will meet to discuss global issues, such as climate change and recovery from the global pandemic. Their talks will affect all our brothers and sisters in our global family.
In November, COP26, a meeting of world leaders and governments organised by the United Nations, will be taking place in Glasgow. Important decisions will be made about how countries can help tackle the climate crisis.
Our government is hosting this meeting: they represent us. We have the power to make a difference by speaking up and making sure that our voices are heard. Like the Disciples at Pentecost, we need to become Apostles, spreading the Good News of Jesus and building a better future and fairer world for all.
What can I do?
If you haven’t already done so, watch the CAFOD assembly: ‘Eyes of the World’. Take part in the campaign by making pictures of eyes to show the eyes of the world are watching, and so are we! Write to the government telling them to think about the world’s poorest people as they make their decisions! https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Primary-teaching-resources/Eyes-of-the-world
Let Us Pray:
We pray for a world where everyone has the chance to live life to the full.