December 8, 2011 in Front Page News, News by Mr A Davidson
Attendance matters and that’s a FACT!
Good school attendance equips your son or daughter with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills that they will need to achieve to their highest potential. This is an undisputable FACT. That is why UK law requires each parent to ensure that their child attends school. The Local Authority requires each school to ‘actively intervene’ when a student’s attendance falls below a certain level, FACT. With this in mind most schools in the UK now employ their own attendance officer. The Attendance Officer at St Joseph’s is Barbara Byers; she is the first point of contact if you have any worries or concerns about your child’s attendance.
Ms Byers works closely with the tutor team, PPC, the school nurse and external agencies to put in place support mechanisms for when your child is facing difficulties or issues which impact on their attendance. St Joseph’s Catholic High School also operates a reward system which acknowledges the huge achievement of students who attend well, often surpassing the school target.
If you have any concerns, issues or questions regarding attendance & the law please contact Ms Byers who will answer your queries either over the telephone or in person by making an appointment in school. The current tutor group with the highest attendance in school is St Augustine, pictured below with their tutor Mrs Davies.
Congratulations and well done to St Augustine!
January 24, 2012 in Front Page News, Gallery, News by Mr P Andrews
Year 7 students were asked to work in teams to help get Mr Andrews home safely for his tea!
January 24, 2012 in Front Page News by Mr M Mavin
Many thanks to all those pupils and staff who have collected 2tl bottles. We have approx 250 so far only 1250 to go!! Keep collecting and bring down to food tech classroom. As neighbours and friends to collect them too. My garden club workers are now starting to cut and fit them together in readiness of construction later this year ( I hope!!) Cheffy!!
January 23, 2012 in Front Page News, News by Mr J Kinsella
The Mathematics Department is now running a regular ‘Puzzle of the Week’, where pupils are offered the choice of either a KS3 or a KS4 puzzle…
The puzzles are designed to make you think…
They’re not easy…
But there are prizes available!!
KS3 Puzzle of the Week:
A very fast growing sunflower grows to a height of 12 feet in 12 weeks by doubling its height every week.
If you only want your sunflower to be 6 feet tall, after how many weeks should you stop it growing?
KS4 Puzzle of the Week:
A collection of sheep and turkeys have a total of 99 heads and legs
between them. There are twice as many turkeys as there are sheep.
How many of each are there?
January 19, 2012 in Extra Curricular, Front Page News by Mr P Andrews
Can you design a postcard that would be used to send positive information home to parents?
DESIGN BRIEF
The D&T department want you to design a postcard that you think best symbolizes Design & Technology. It could be the activities you do, the products you design & make, the tools and equipment you use that are unique to Design & Technology.
A £15 iTunes or Amazon gift card prize will be awarded to the designer of the chosen postcard and they will also have their design professionally printed and see it used by the D&T teachers to send positive information home to parents.
The winning designer will have their name printed onto each card.
The competition is open to all year groups,
SPECIFICATION
- Use an A6 piece of paper, or cardboard for your design.
- All formats and media are permissible: photos, paints, pencil, digital art, the choice is endless!
- On the back of your entry write: your full name, year group and D&T group.
- You need to only design the front of the card.
- The design must promote D&T and convey what you think best symbolizes Design & Technology – the studio, the workshop, Food Technology, the products you design & make, tools & equipment etc..
- You can add text but we will add further text to the front and back of the card.
- If you use any photos or images in your design you must be the owner/creator of the image. The work must be yours and be original*.
RULES
You must be a current student of St. Joseph’s Catholic High School, Workington.
*In submitting postcard design of individuals, it is assumed that the designer has obtained the rights and permission of identifiable persons and objects in the postcard. The School are not responsible for cases in which permission has not been granted by the subjects.
DEADLINE
3.30pm Tuesday 21st February 2012 – all entries to be handed to D&T teachers.
GOOD LUCK
Mr Andrews
January 5, 2012 in Front Page News by Mr A Davidson
The well known author and public speaker, Dr Gervase Phinn, both entertained and informed over 150 staff drawn from our feeder Primary schools and our own school, when he visited us on Tuesday 3rd January.
He spoke with genuine passion and real understanding about the experiences of children in school and the importance of the work we do in supporting them.
It was an up- lifting presentation and was very well received. He called upon schools to ” be for the most disadvantaged what the family and home is for the most fortunate” …a worthy goal for any school!
Gervase Phinn is a practising catholic and worked for many years as a teacher before becoming an Ofsted Inspector. Further information about him can be found on. www.gervase-phinn.com
January 4, 2012 in Extra Curricular, Front Page News, Sports Development by Mr M Dickinson
Archery – 3.30 – 4.30pm in the sports hall
Starts Tuesday 10th January for 5 weeks. £3 per week / £15 for the block
Basketball – 3.30 – 4.30pm in the sports hall
Starts Wednesday 11th January for 5 weeks. FREE
For more information or to reserve a place contact Michael Dickinson 01900 873290 ext 233
December 14, 2011 in Extra Curricular, Front Page News by Miss C Keevil
Attention all avid readers! I am very pleased to announce the shortlist for Spellbinding 2012.
- Too Much Trouble by Tom Avery
- We can be Heroes by Catherine Bruton
- Night on Terror Island by Philip Caveney
- Reckless by Cornelia Funke
- Theodore Boone by John Grisham
- Department 19 by Will Hill
- Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Spellbinding will be taking place every Tuesday lunch time at 1pm in the LRC. In the club we will be reading the selected books, completing fun quizzes, discussing the characters and making artistic displays!
December 12, 2011 in Front Page News, News by Mr A Davidson
Congratulations to our year 9 team, who were the top performing school in the “Enterprise challenge”, held at Energus on Friday 9th December
Well done!
December 5, 2011 in Front Page News by Mr A Davidson
40 local pensioners were treated to a traditional Christmas dinner specially prepared for them by a group of year 10 catering pupils. The year 10 COPE group decorated and arranged beautiful table settings, and were there to greet, look after and entertain.
The guests were served a delicious 3 course meal by the COPE group and assisted by a number of Fair-traders.
Guests were thoroughly impressed by the organisation, standard of food and enthusiasm of our young people
The afternoon was finished off with Carol singing, bingo and a visit from Father Christmas.
Well done to all involved in a fantastic afternoon.
Miss Lishman / Miss Jackson
December 5, 2011 in Front Page News by Mr M Mavin
My aim is to build a recycled 2lt bottle green house with the year 7s (with my exsisting garden clubbers) and to extend the garden and growing area of the polytunnel ”plot”. To build the green house we need approx 1500 2lt straight sided bottles (cleaned and de-labelled). These will be constructed in a wooden frame to create the panels with will then be fastened together to form the structure. Please save any bottles you have and bring them down to food technology. Thanks– Cheffy!!
