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Wow. Just wow! Over 20,000 visors now supplied & over £25,000 raised! We started out to help Salisbury, but to say things have spread is an understatement. So far your donations have helped us to provide visors across the country - see the map below.
Thank you to all involved!
Scrub sewing update; Over 40 helpers, 40 scrub hats and over 50 scrub bags have been delivered to
@SalisburyNHS
, and 4 scrub hats to MOD dental surgery. We're working with Salisbury Sewers Hub and have provided enough material to create 50 trousers, 50 Tops and around 70 bags!👍
1 week anniversary of the protective visors project! A few numbers as an update; 3.5k made to date, 5.5k on order, capacity to produce 1.5k a day now thanks to the 6 satellite laser cutters! £14k raised. A week ago, this was unimaginable - due to your help we've made this happen!
To celebrate Pentecost we've created the word hope with our pupils and are sharing our messages of hope with the world! Click the link to see the beautiful messages from our pupils and
@St_OsmundsCP
Spread the love & hope far and wide! Retweet and share!
Today we were delighted to be able to donate £14k to
@StarsAppeal
. As many of you will be aware we raised thousands of pounds to produce and distribute visors during the pandemic. The surplus funds have been donated to the Stars Appeal to spread some love and joy this Christmas.
It's great to see all the photos coming in of professionals wearing the visors! So far your donations have funded the materials to make 45,000 visors. We started out aiming for 2000. We now have a team working flat out across the county to help us make 2000 a day! Thank you!
Our NHS needs more than applause, they need PPE equipment. As a school we have committed our equipment & time to make over 2000 full face visors for local NHS workers. We have the materials & the people but need to raise the funds. Please donate if you can
Scrubs production is taking off! Thank you to the 30 volunteers (mixture of staff, parents and friends) sewing to make this vital equipment. Some big deliveries happening later... Please share the link and help raise more funds to keep it going! Thanks!
Today also sees the quest to provide additional PPE in the form of scrub bags, scrubs, face masks and scrub hats. School sewing machines are being serviced and materials on their way. 24 staff & friends are producing these items. If you want to be involved, please get in touch.
Scrub production is well underway! Pillow cases being turned into scrub masks & hats. Thank you to all the volunteers. We also need buttons - if you have any, please let us know. Thanks again!
Quick update on the protective visors. There are now 14 laser cutter sites in operation, 15,000 visors have been made with a further 9,000 on order! Almost £24,000 donated too. Huge thank you to all involved - truly phenomenal effort! ❤️👏
So, after 300 votes the locations have been decided; Mrs Evans & Mr Bartel will be under the stairs, Mrs Snell in a den in her house, Mr Caruso in a den in his garden and Mr Rooney in a tent! Wish them all luck!
#thisismybedtonight
#letsendhomelessness
And there we have it; the end to the strangest school year in living memory has drawn to a close. Yr9 were great today - brilliant to see you all! Wishing all our staff, pupils and families a restful & happy summer! Thanks for all your efforts this year
#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
What started out as a pet project has gone through the ceiling of anything ever expected. Yesterday saw the project hit the national press, Salisbury pulling together, and a sense of other areas pulling with us as we all face the same challenges within our communities. 1/4
A huge thank you to Kate
@the_makery
for donating 5km of elastic! Yes, you read that right: 5KM!!! Absolutely phenomenal generosity. Truly humbled by all the support and help from our community. You can find out more about the Makery on Facebook:
@themakery
&
Insta:
@themakerykate
Here's a summary of the visor and sewing projects courtesy of BBC News! Please keep sharing the GoFundMe page so we can keep buying the plastic to keep making the visors. Thank you so much for all of your support & donations.
We're extremely proud of our year 11 pupils this year and the results they have achieved. Lots of happy faces and lovely atmosphere yesterday as they picked up their results enabling them to take their next steps. Well done!
Lovely to see year 11 today picking up their results (there have been a lot of growth spurts over the last few months!). Delighted to see the happy faces and looking forward to being able to celebrate properly with you soon when we can do so in a "covid-secure" way!
A massive thank you to all the employers who came to school today to help conduct mock interviews for Year 10! A great experience for our pupils! Thanks to
@WiltsCreative
@dstlmod
@CareerEnt
, The Catenians, Babcock International and WIN. Next stop; work experience!
A huge thank you to
@YHAOfficial
and
@CLEANLinenLtd
for the donation of 6,000 pieces of clean linen for the scrub sewing project! 300 bags, 150 hats & numerous extenders and masks have been produced and delivered to
@SalisburyNHS
, MOD health care workers and community nurses. 👍
As we work on our plans for the week ahead and beyond, let's pause and reflect on the bigger picture. Our prayers and thoughts go out to those with Covid-19 (confirmed and unconfirmed), those who have sadly passed on as a result of the virus and also their families and friends.
School has closed its doors for 2020; what a year! Thanks for all your support, patience and understanding this year! Wishing you all a happy & holy Christmas!
Very emotional seeing yr11 today; a real gem of a yr group. It's been a pleasure seeing you develop over the years - we're all immensely proud of you and the young adults you have become. Once we can, we'll mark your leaving from school in style!
#DoYourBestAndMindYourManners
Happy St Joseph's Feast Day! The day started with an assembly on St Joseph and pupils were gifted free ice cream at lunch whilst staff had a delicious cake prepared by the canteen to celebrate!
On
#DDay75thAnniversary
a flashback to our remembrance day display in November. Three members of our school community will also be taking part in
@AlabareUK
commemorative skydive in aid of Homes for Veterans on Sunday 16th June
@GoSkydiveUK
Thank you
@journal_gemma
and
@journalupdate
for helping to raise awareness and sharing the GoFundMe page! Much appreciated. 👍 School raises £17k and delivers more than 2,000 visors - in just one week!
Today we're proud to be supporting
@AlabareUK
; 5 staff and a number of pupils are joining in
#TheBigSleep
! Staff will be sporting pyjamas today and pupils have voted on the locations where the 5 staff will sleep. More to follow later!
#thisismybedtonight
#letsendhomelessness
An emotional send off today for Year 11; lovely leavers assembly, a guard of honour from Year 10, a buzzing and beautiful celebration at the end of the day. There were tears and smiles aplenty. Where have those five years gone?! You'll be massively missed.
A big thank you to
@wiltscouncil
and
@homebargains
for dropping off Easter eggs on Thursday for our pupils in school; it was a lovely touch. Thank you!
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them".
Our thought provoking memorial for
#remembrance2018
#ThankYou100
A truly fantastic effort by staff and pupils and a fitting memorial for those who paid the ultimate price
@PoppyLegion
. Very proud of our school community and well done Mrs Becher for leading this initiative!
Delighted with how the return to school has gone so far; the pupils have taken the return in their stride, handled the Covid tests very maturely and have been a joy to have back! Yrs 7, 8&10 have been through the testing process once, and Yr11 twice. All negative results so far!
The day has come to say farewell to our fabulous Yr11; only seems like yesterday that we welcomed you in as fresh faced Yr7s! You have made us so proud, but particularly over this last extraordinarily challenging year with your incredible resilience
#DoYourBestAndMindYourManners
Great to see Yr11 this morning collecting their hard earned results (albeit in the dark due to the power cut!) Delighted to see the smiles!
Such a challenging KS4 for you but your perseverance & resilience has been admirable. Good luck with your next steps - you'll be missed!
Delighted with our standings in the league tables. Top non-selective school in Salisbury this year for Progress 8! Fantastic achievement and testament to the teamwork of pupils, parents and staff.
The Colour Run was genius! Great fun, lots of colour, lots of smiles, lots of top tunes too! 😂 & a bonus visit from the
@Salisburymayor
- we even played one of his requests on the big speaker! Big thanks to our sponsor and well done
@sjcs_PE
more photos to follow!
Congratulations to Lois and Ryan for winning the Mayor's Awards for Outstanding Academic Achievement and Community Contribution respectively, last night! Amazing achievements! 👏👏👏
Last week our head boy sent messages out to the elderly on his road. This morning he received 5 calls from them and has spent the day buying and delivering their shopping to them. Tomorrow he's returning their library books!
#proud
#WeAreStJoes
Absolutely blown away by the generosity of a Yr11 parent; a donation of 3 huge boxes packed with fantastic books that will definitely be put to good use at school. A huge thank you!
Delighted to announce St Joseph's are the winners of the inaugural Salisbury inter schools staff quiz. Thanks
@BWordsworths
for hosting - great evening!
Our very own Mr McGuiness has been recognised by
@journalupdate
for the phenomenal efforts he made in spearheading the Visor Project as part of their 'pandemic heroes' feature. 👏👏👏❤️
Due to the severe weather, in the interest of pupil and staff safety, the school is CLOSED on Friday 18th February following advice from the Local Authority. Work will be set for all pupils via Show My Homework.
We apologise for any inconvenience this causes.
#StaySafe
Two former pupils, Harry & Ryan, very kindly donated some goods from their employer
@TKMaxx_UK
today. Wonderful gesture boys and a massive thanks from us!
#WeAreStJoes
We are currently hatching plans for what to do with it. Update to come on Monday...
All year groups in ✅
First round of Covid testing complete ✅
Second round of Covid testing started ✅
Consolidating learning ✅
Getting ready to master and move on ✅
Delighted with having everyone back and having a full school again! ✅
Delighted to receive this earlier in Yr11 assembly from
@AlabareUK
in recognition of our superb fundraising for the Big Sleep. Yr11 participants also received their individual certificates (yr9&10 will receive this week too). Thoughts now turn to the 10k ft sky dive in June!
#Race4Life
was absolutely fantastic today! I'll let the pictures tell the story. Don't forget to bring your sponsor money in this week or donate it via the justgiving page.
#awesome
A sincere thank you to all our parents. Your kind comments & emails have been a great source of encouragement. Your patience, support & understanding has truly been appreciated in this very challenging week. We wish you a restful weekend and we'll be back in touch next week.
The visors are rolling out; if you need visors get in touch! Plastic arrived yesterday via
@Tuffnells
providing an out of hours van delivery just for us!
Keep donating, 1 day we can look back and say we helped those doing the most amazing work to protect us. Help us protect them.
Looking forward to welcoming all of our pupils back to school today and extending a very warm welcome to our new year 7. Normal school times 8:55 start and 3:35 finish.
#FirstDayOfSchool
Absolutely flabbergasted at the generosity of the local area! Today
@dorsetvehicle
provided us with a van so we could collect a huge quantity of linen from
@StalbridgeLinen
for our scrubs project. Tomorrow
@tesco
in Shafestbury are allowing us to use their carpark... 1/2
Tomorrow is our big fundraising push in school for
@AlabareUK
Big Sleep! Non-uniform (please pay via school gateway) Beat the Goalie, Tuck Shop, Bake Sales and a Coin Trail! Bring plenty of cash to support our 62 pupils and 9 staff Big Sleepers!
A Yr8 boy and his sister have been busy painting over 30 rainbow postcards for all their neighbours. The postcards had a message on the back seeing if any of their neighbours needed help. They've since been shopping and picking up prescriptions for those in need!
#locallegends
Sports Day assembly today! Brilliant to recognise all the achievements from yesterday, the podium finishes, the broken records and new for this year, and the excellent athletes! 👏 Well done everyone, and a big congratulations to Margaret House for winning Sports Day!
Totally blown away by all the support, donations and offers of help; it's truly remarkable how everyone is pulling together on this - over £12,000 has been donated! A quick update; the entire South West region for social care will soon be getting 500-1000 visors & 1/2
And that's the first half term all wrapped up (unless you're on the English trip tomorrow!) Great transition for Yr7, excellent attitude and motivation from Yr11 and a fab term for Yr8,9 &10. Thank you to all our dedicated staff and supportive families! Happy half term!
A lovely buzz in school this morning as Year 11 collected their results - lots of smiles and happy pupils ready to progress to their next steps in education! We're really pleased & delighted that all the hard work of staff and pupils has been recognised in these results! 🎊👏
Unfortunately, the photo doesn't do it justice! The Tree of Hope is sparking in the quietness of the quad. Great effort St Joe's. Well done everyone! 👏
Happy St Joseph's Day! Our school is named after the patron Saint of fathers, families and workers. The lily on our blazer is a well known symbol of Joseph representing integrity and purity.
#StJosephsDay
Congratulations to Nancy in Year 8 for being awarded Golfer of the Year at Salisbury Golf Centre! Over the year she won 6 competitions at the Golf Club and is an extremely promising golfer! A bright future ahead! 👏
St Joseph's branded face masks! We've got 1000 of these reusable & washable face masks. They have fully adjustable ear loops and fit snugly against the side of your face. They're on sale via the school gateway app for £3:75 each from Tues 3rd November.
This week's school activities have consisted of, amongst other things; researching frontline NHS organisations for protective visors, baking cookies and topped off today with the science of kite flying with Mr Daniel & Mr Bartel!
We're really looking forward to welcoming our new year 7 tomorrow to school and also welcoming all our pupils back! It's going to great to see you all again!
Half term has arrived! Lots of positives to end the term; accelerated reader prizes & sweet treats for Teresa House for topping the achievement points. The Wheel of Prizes was a beauty; congrats to the Yr7 boy winning
@Dominos_UK
with Mrs Ridley! Thanks for all your support!
A sincere thank you to all our families for your understanding in these unprecedented times. As communicated previously, updates will be published via the school website, please check after 9pm each night. Thanks once more for your support. 1/2
We're looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school tomorrow; a few reminders;
✅ pack for week 2 of your new timetable
✅ coats allowed inside the ventilated building
✅ bring your face mask
✅ Lateral flow testing will be happening throughout the day (see below 👇)
Charity updates;
#ChristmasJumperDay
raised a grand total of £402 for
@savechildrenuk
and our ongoing fundraising for
@CAFOD
has raised £350 for overseas projects. Well done everyone 👏❤️
#worldbookday2022
What a blast! Teachers and pupils alike embraced the dressing up efforts fantastically! A few teacher snaps below, pupil ones to follow! Pupils were also treated to 5 minutes reading a book at the beginning of each lesson (A Street Cat Named Bob & Stonecold).
Wow. Just wow. Awesome performance of DNA. Super proud watching our budding stars this evening. Well done to all the pupils involved and a huge thanks to all the staff who made it happen! Just brilliant!
We now have two defibrillators in school! Huge thank you to Miss Pearson on reception for her drive and efforts in ensuring we have this vital life-saving equipment in school! 👏
Mrs Peters has knitted some hats for our pupils accessing the Wild wellbeing project. They'll definitely be needed over the next couple of months! Looking amazing!