St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Great Hadham Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 2NL
Tel: 01279 652576 Email: admin@stjosephs207.herts.sch.uk

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Severe weather - information for parents

If the school is going to be closed

Any decision to close the school is made as soon as possible - usually before 07.45 am. Once that decision has been made, then we will provide information in the following ways:

1. In the event of severe weather we will notify our nominated radio station Ten 17 FM if we have to close as early as possible in the morning. The notifications will either be read on air or displayed on the radio station websites. 101.7 FM www.ten17.co.uk/

2. Please check the HCC public web site www.hertsdirect.org This should have a link to a page where all the schools can leave a message.

3. We will update our school website with a message. Please be aware that this is at the mercy of County's 'The Grid' internet working - it has crashed every time there has been snow due to the volume of people trying to access it across the County.

4. A message on the school answer phone will be left if the school is going to be closed - please be aware that this is not the first message you will hear but Option 3.

"St Joseph's Catholic School is an outstanding School" - Ofsted, June 2008

"The Catholic ethos permeates all aspects of school life and has a real impact on pupils' attitudes, contributing very well to their outstanding personal development and well-being" - Ofsted, June 2008

Read the full version of our OFSTED report as we prepare to celebrate 100 years of education in the Catholic tradition.

School History Section

Link to History section

100 years of St Joseph's Catholic School - Have you got any memories or photographs to share with us? See what we've collected so far

School Association Next Meeting

Tuesday 26th January 2010 at 2.30pm in the staff room

www.thegivingmachine.co.uk

Don't forget to register with The Giving Machine and St Joseph's will get a commission fee from your online shopping.

Help for left handers

www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk

The left handed website is an excellent site giving advice to parents about left handed issues and if you make a purchase the school will get 15% of the order value.

Governors

Follow up Letter from the Governors about requesting support (January 2007)

St. Joseph's is a voluntary aided, all ability, Roman Catholic school for children aged 4-11 years.

Headteacher: Peter Coldwell

Our School Mission Statement is... "To live, love and learn in a caring Christian community"
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The Big Draw

Children from Year 1 to Year 6 took part in 'The Big Draw' which is a national campaign to get everyone drawing. The children were able to take part in lots of drawing activities, even the staff enjoyed picking up a pencil. One of the activities was an observational drawing of a pineapple using oil pastels. What wonderful artists we have at St Joseph's. Well done.

The Official Opening of our Nursery.

The School held a special ceremony to officially open the new nursery unit. During the ceremony the town's deputy mayor Cllr Bob Taylor cut a ribbon and the parish priest Canon Eddie Matthews gave a blessing watched by the head teacher Peter Coldwell, representatives from the diocese, the county, school governors, parents and children.

Love in a box from the children, parents and staff at St Joseph's School.

We collected 216 shoeboxes filled with toys, toiletries, stationary items, sweets for the annual Samaritans Purse Festive appeal.The festive appeal makes a difference to children all over Europe who would not otherwise have anything at all at Christmas.Our boxes along with others from our area are going to children in Belarus.

Our foundation stage has the Herts Quality Award

For pre and post-school child care look at the Early Birds and Night Owls out of school clubs.

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Link for Extended schools in Bishops Stortford - www.aspects.org.uk

Photographs of paint a penny picture

Photographs of children's Centenary party

Latest Centenary Newsletter

Photographs of planting the Centenary tree

Photographs of Centenary Concert and party

African Drumming Workshop photographs

active kitemark logo

Sport England has recognised the quality of our PE and our ongoing commitment to deliver two hours of PE each week at St Joseph's by awarding the school with its Activemark accreditation.

We are trying to collect green leaves and parents can donate them by completing an energy survey -

See www.generationgreen.co.uk for more details

Covering letter from the Chair of Governors about our fantastic OFSTED inspection

Our School Profile is available to view in the prospectus and Ofsted section

E Safety Information for parents

Additional information about fair processing of pupil's personal data