On Monday 17th December, Transition Year students participated in the annual Duvet Day as part of the English Department's literacy initiative.
Students enjoyed a relaxing day reading and finished the day off with hot chocolate with marshmallows and biscuits.
Our Leaving Cert students are preparing for their 24-hour charity fast sleep-over on,
Wednesday 19th December.
This year all donations are for Sr. Angela's Kenya Fund.
Please support us when you see us out collecting!
To officially mark the beginning of the Christmas Season in St.Josephs, Fr Brendan Quinlivan, Fr. Brendan Lawlor and Sr. Bosco joined First Years, Transition Years and staff in a Christmas Prayer Service.
We lit a candle of remembrance to commemorate past students Jack Lynch and Scarlett Donnellan Feeley and hung 2 special decorations on our Christmas tree in their memory. After we switched on the lights, we lifted our spirits with a rapturous round of "Jingle all the way"!
Congratulations to our students and staff who raised €1300 during our recent Wellness Week. The funds raised will be divided between between our two chosen Mental Health awareness charities - Elevate and Grow Mental Health.
A picture of our young St. Vincent de Paul group who traveled to Dublin for the launch of the St. Vincent de Paul Christmas appeal with Ryan Tubridy. The group rewrote the Picture This song "Take my hand" to be about homelessness and performed live to a large audience at the launch.
Students in at St. Joseph's undertook a number of fun activities for Science Week recently. Pictured below are First Year students, who designed a structure that was strong and portable enough to "fly" from the first floor (height 6 m) with an egg as the pilot! Second Years constructed an edible model of DNA (yum!) and Transition Years went to UL to attend a Science Extraordinaire magic show.
Cork Pops Orchestra Trip - ‘A World of Rhythm’.
St. Joseph’s First, Second Year and LCA classes visited the Cork Pops Orchestra in University of Limerick Concert Hall on Friday, 9th November. Evelyn Grant was the conductor and, frankly, she did an amazing job. She also interacted with the audience, introducing the various pieces and describing the special features of every instrument. There was an array of instruments from all orchestral families, including string, woodwind and brass.
The concert was aptly titled ‘A World of Rhythm’ as there was a particular focus on percussion instruments. The regular tuned and untuned percussion instruments were present, along with a few surprises. Pieces included the Anvil Chorus by Verdi which was played by hammers hitting car break discs. Balero by Ravel featured a snare drum and Typewriter by Anderson featured a typewriter, guiro and bell.
There were two special guest musicians, Phoebe Dipple and DJ Dashka. Phoebe played Snow White in the pantomime in Cork and DJ Dashka presents a show on Spin South West. He showed us his skills on his sound sampler.
Experiencing this show definitely broadened our knowledge of the orchestra. We learned that the percussion musicians didn’t stay in one place for the performance, as they needed to move around quite a lot during the show to play a variety of instruments. In conclusion, the concert was a very enjoyable experience and we would love to go again next year!
By: Polly Donnellan, Chloe Gallagher & Sarah Nihill