Friday 16th May, 2025
NBA Jnr @ Ponteland High School
Despite missing a few of our squad, our year 7 boys successfully moved to the conference final of #NBAJnr on Thursday evening.
Students in both groups had prepared questions for Fr. Luke regarding his vocation, his ministry and his hobbies and interests.
Fr. Luke explored his faith, his journey from teaching to the priesthood, his training in seminary, his favourite saints and scriptural passages and his favourite parts of his amazing vocation in our diocese. Students also posed questions regarding topics we are studying in RE such as the existence of Good and Evil in the world.
We really enjoyed having Fr. Luke in at sunny St. Joseph’s and we are really grateful for his support and for inspiring our young people here at St. Joseph’s.
God bless and we hope to work with him more in the future.
God bless and we hope to work with him more in the future.
The EVENT is an immersive opportunity to celebrate our faith, reflect on key themes and occasions in the liturgical calendar and to take part in liturgical dance, drama, music, faith based games and candle-lit reflection. Students played faith based games like ‘Jesus splat’, ‘capture the Bible’ and did Freeze Frames looking at feelings like ‘jealousy, happiness, sadness and love’ and then we explored St. Paul’s teaching on love, watched a motivational video about love and then held our loved ones in our prayers by taking part in candle-lit adoration so that we could hold our loved ones in our own silent prayers.
Students were fantastic! God bless and happy St. Valentine’s day!
As such, this half-term Year 12 have been planning their very own Celebrations of the Word, choosing their own themes, readings, writing their prayers and choosing how to reflect. Mr. Slowey’s form chose the theme of friendship, looked at St. Paul’s teaching on love and friendship and led each other in musical and prayer reflections as well as presenting their form with their own artistic banner on what friendship means to them. Their ideas, creativity and reflectiveness were humbling. Well done! God bless.
They picked the theme of ‘promoting tolerance in the world’ inspired by St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Students chose their own Bible readings, including the parable of the Good Samaritan as their Gospel reflection, wrote their own bidding prayers, chose reflective music namely ‘life is a highway’ and ‘where is the love’, wrote a mission and built their own prayer highway as part of their service. I am immensely proud of the quality, the dedication and their effort in leading worship for each other. It was a pleasure to be part of. Well done 12H4. All Year 12 are leading their own worship services over the next fortnight. Collective Worship is something we are truly proud of and embed across the entire school and we aim to give students the opportunity to plan and lead their own worship throughout their school spiritual journey. God bless
Students are engaging in musical praise with some awesome singing and dancing to our sunny St. Joe’s school anthem ‘My Lighthouse’ by Rend Collective. Students are taking part in faith-based games and challenges and then looking at what is love and how we can show love to one another. Students reflected powerfully on Jesus’ teaching that ‘greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends’ before having a candle-lit prayer meditation holding in our prayers those whom we love the most. Students were excellent in their reverence, engagement and respect. God bless. 
We went 3-0 up before half time only to be pegged back to 3-2. Into the final 10 minutes of the game and we added a fourth before a quick return from Kepier to make it 4-3. The ball continued to be end to end with some strong plays from both teams. The final minute saw us get 4 successive corners with the final one turning in. Final whistle ended the game at 5-3. Well done girls, with particular mention to the goal scorers, Leila H x 4 and Amber R x 1 and several fabulous through balls from Sofia M to assist the goals.Latest News
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