On Friday 29th January, staff and students at St Joseph's College, Beulah Hill welcomed local MP Rt.Hon. Malcolm Wicks and 4 times British Olympian, Donna Fraser to their school to unveil two large mosaics which have been made by Art students at the College to commemorate the 1948 and 2012 London Olympics.
After the short ceremony, a group of Chinese students from a school in Beijing, who have been visiting the College, presented an Olympic flag to mark the passing of the Olympic games from Beijing in 2008 to London in 2012.
Last December, St. Joseph's was awarded the status of 'Confucius Classroom' by the Chinese Government. The College is now a Centre of Excellence for Mandarin teaching and Chinese Culture. The College is only the 12th school in the country to gain this award. Nearly 500 students at the College are studying Mandarin.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 February 2010 08:30
Beijing students visit St. Joseph's
Friday, 05 February 2010 09:50
On Wednesday 27th, Thursday 28th and Friday 29th January the College hosted 2 groups of students from Beijing.
On Wednesday morning, 17 students and 2 teachers from the 'Beijing National Day school' had lessons in English, from Ms Stockman and Mathematics from Mr. Skinner . In the afternoon they were put in groups of 5 with students from the College who are studying Mandarin. The groups had to, investigate the causes and effects of Climate Change and what they could do to help solve the problem. They finished the day off by giving a 5 minute presentation, in English on their findings.
Haider Ali Dar of 7.5 was awarded The Jack Petchey Award today for his enthusiam, hard work and achievements, striving to do his best at all times. He has also been awarded £200 to spend on equipment which will to benefit the whole school.
St Joseph's College has enhanced learning and teaching by providing pupils the opportunity to work in a cross curricular context developing their understanding in terms of PLTS (Personal, learning and thinking skills) outcomes. The Generation Green Project has enabled pupils to explore a real life global issue of climate change and consider ways of responding in terms of the individual, the local community and taking persuasive action towards lobbying the Environment and Climate Minister, Ed Milliband.
Click on the above picture to see pictures of the School during snow
Poems on the Snow by Year 7
Monday, 18 January 2010 15:15
Snowfall By Haider Ali Dar Class 7.5
The heavens open from above, throwing down tons of fun. So gently it fell like fluffy feathers floating down, Wanting to carpet the ground.
Bare trees all around with scatters of snow falling down. Red flowers, green grass, all of that is now in the past. No delay for children to go out and play. BANG! Hits the face with no care Snowballs fly high up in the air.
Problems start to create And all the excitement will soon break. Because life is stuck and people are fed up, So they wish for all the snow To get up and GO!
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