March 2025 | St. Joseph's Primary School & Nursery Unit

40 Bridge Road, Dunloy, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, BT44 9EF

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HALF TIME GAMES

Well done to our Primary 7 children who represented St. Joseph’s in Corrigan Park yesterday at the Antrim v Laois game. A great day!

CUMANN NAMBUNSCOL BOYS FOOTBALL

On Friday our Primary 7 girls took part in the Allianz Cumann na mBunscol All County Antrim indoor football tournament on Friday at Tír na nÓg. Well done girls!

WORLD BOOK DAY

A fun day celebrating books and reading at school today. Thank you to our Eco Council for organising the Eco Book Swap and congratulations to our AR winners and Willie Wonka prize winners. Keep up the super reading everyone and enjoy sharing those new books at home.

CUMANN NAMBUNSCOL BOYS FOOTBALL

Our boys played in their respective indoor Allianz Cumann na mBunscol All County Antrim football final today at Tír na nÓg. Our team put in serious effort with some great tackling, blocks and skillful scores! Well done everyone and we look forward to the next tournament!

FOUNDATION STAGE PLANTING SEEDS

ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATIONS

P3 TRIP TO ARTHUR COTTAGE

The sun was shining for our Primary 3 children today as they enjoyed a trip to Arthur Cottage in Cullbackey. They discovered a lot of facts about homes in the past as part of their World Around Us topic ‘Houses and Homes’ before finishing off the day at the People’s Park in Ballymena.

P6 TRIP TO SLIEVEANORRA MOUNTAIN

What a brilliant day our Primary 6 pupils had at Slieveanorra Mountain! The trip was packed with outdoor learning opportunities, from exploring the natural environment to discovering local wildlife. A fantastic experience for all!

FOOD BANK DRIVE

After launching our successful ‘Foodbank Drive’ at the beginning of Lent 2024 our School Council are running their thoughtful initiative again this year. Peter Roland from the Ballymoney Foodbank came to speak to our KS1/KS2 children this week to explain about all the good work being completed by his team in our local area. Although the Ballymoney Foodbank has helped those in need all over the North they primarily help families within a 5 mile radius of their base in Ballymoney. He also informed our pupils that we collected just over 250 kilograms of food during Lent 2024 which was outstanding! It really highlights the generosity of our community for which we are very thankful for.

Peter is going to return to our school during Easter week to see the children’s good work, to collect the food which will have been kindly donated and to thank our pupils in person. All food must be at least one month before its ‘out of date stamp’ on the date of collection meaning all food donated must have a date stamp of at least 16/05/2025 or after. This initiative is the idea of our School Council and is being driven by them. We are very proud of their continuing hard work.

MATILDA PERFORMANCE

We would like to wish Aoibheann and Eoin the best of luck as they perform in ‘Matilda’, at Stranmillis Theatre, this weekend.

SPRING RAFFLE

Congratulations to all our Spring Raffle winners!

Thank you to everyone who has very kindly supported our Lenten fundraising campaign so far.

FOOTBALL MASCOT

We would like to wish Ruan the very best of luck for tomorrow evening as he leads Wolverhampton Wanderers on to the pitch as team mascot, when they play West Ham Utd. Enjoy the experience!

PRIMARY 3 FIRST CONFESSION

Congratulations to our P3 pupils who made their First Confession this month and a huge thank you to Fr Devlin who organised a surprise ice cream treat for them all after mass this morning to celebrate. A great way to start the week

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