What will you be when you grow up?

Do any of us know yet? Will we be an astronaut working with NASA? A writer, an environmentalist or maybe a teacher?

How many of us are currently living the 'career dreams' of our childhoods?

What we do know is what we like! What we are curious about and what interests us or makes us happy! We know we enjoy climbing to the top of the climbing-frame and looking down, we know we like to create or write. These things never leave us. Maybe we will be astrologers, mountaineers, editors, animators or artists. There are so many vocations that revolve around the skills and the interests we have.

That is why 'Enjoyment' is one of our school values. Learning to not only find what we like but to like what we find, means we can always enjoy what ever path we take in the future!

'Aim high, achieve together!'

On Wednesday 18^th May, the sun shone brightly on us whilst we held our open air Crowning of Mary Service .  The children all gathered in the school playground to honour Our Lady Mary.

Children were invited to bring a flower to school so that we could decorate our prayer corners.  Flowers were brought in abundance and proudly presented to Our Lady during the service.  The children were also able to bring along their own Rosaries for the celebration.

Our service began with the hymn Beautiful World, followed by readings by Harry and Finlay from Year 6.  Mr. Kirk led the children in prayer before Amber and Eliza were then invited to crown Our lady with the beautiful crown of fresh flowers.

During the singing of Immaculate Mary, representatives from each class then presented their flowers to Our Lady Mary.  Mr. Pasola then invited Anna from Year 5 to read the fifth glorious mystery ‘The Coronation of Mary’

Mr. Kirk closed the service and we sang our final hymn ‘Hail Holy Queen’.

Congratulations to the winners from each class for The Young Artist Festival 2022.  An exhibition will be held at the Margate School and can be viewed from Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th May.  There will be over 600 paintings on view from 35 Thanet schools and colleges.  We will let you know when we hear all of the winners and runners up.  A prize presentation will be at noon on Saturday 28th May.

On Saturday we were really pleased to see three of our St Joseph's children receive their First Holy Communion at Our Lady Star of the Sea RC Church in Broadstairs. This is a special occasion in the Catholic Church and it was a lovely service. Our thanks go to Father Philip, who always makes the children and parents so welcome, the local church community, parents and helpers. Congratulations to all those that took part!

Did you know that if children snack on nutritious foods like fruit and vegetables they can develop healthy eating habits that can stay with them for life? That's why we have a selection of fruit and vegetables available at snack time and throughout the day, every day, for children that need to keep their brains and bodies supplied with the right kind of nutrients. Fruit and vegetables contain vitamins, minerals and fibre as well as being fun to eat, no matter what activity you are engaged in!

We love learning about healthy eating and we love fruit and vegetables!

'Aim high, achieve together!'

Juno Triumphs!

We often talk to the children about putting in the regular practice and persevering. We always ask them to aim high and we hope they get involved with others that can help and support them, so that they achieve together. After all, our school has 'Aim high, achieve together!' as its motto.

We received a lovely letter from Juno's Daddy this week.

He was very proud of her incredible achievements over the weekend. He explained:

"Juno has been practising her Taekwondo very hard and regularly, leading up to the Master Wolf Taekwondo Academies British Championships on Saturday and I can proudly say because of all her hard work and practicing Juno won both her events to win first place and take Gold in each!"

This means that Juno is now a 'Taekwondo Double Gold British Champion' in her age group! This is an amazing achievement!