Tuesday 15th July, 2025
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What a massive effort from everyone at Sports day today! There were some mega performances at Monkton Stadium. A tremendous team effort from all despite...
This week 12H3 led theirs on the theme of ‘love’ focusing upon love for others, love for family, love for friends and love for our own spiritual well-being. They included a beautiful array of prayers, Bible readings, karaoke musical praise, personal reflections from both students and their form tutor and a fantastic rendition of prayer snowballs on the theme of love. 12H1 chose to lead their Celebration of the Word on the theme of ‘under pressure’ and promoting good mental health and well-being ahead of our exams and coursework. Students listened to Queen’s ‘under pressure;’, lead beautiful scripture readings, prayers and shared an immensely powerful testimony of how one member of the form had dealt with tremendous pressure when faced with saving the life of a total stranger. What we love about these Celebrations of the Word is the amazing variety of styles, approaches and testimonies given. Each form works hard to make it their own, have fun and reflect upon our faith.
Hilda House has done an amazing job, and we are tremendously proud of each and every one of them. God bless and have a wonderful, restful and spiritually uplifting half-term.
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. Latest News
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