The priests of our parish kindly donated to St. Joseph’s CBS a statue of St. Joseph for the school. The statue was in the garden of St. Peter’s Presbytery. It was put in place on Thursday 25th November 2021 and now takes pride of place at the front of St. Joseph’s C.B.S.
Category Archives: St. Joseph’s News
Minding Me, Minding You: Parent Class
Minding Me, Minding You
As a response to the launch of our 16 day campaign: Violence Against Women, we are running a care workshop for women experiencing Domestic Violence or supporting women in an abusive relationship.
Date: 7th December 2021
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: Via Zoom
This is an invitation only event for women living or working in the Drogheda area.
If interested please contact Noirin Coghlan to register by email:
noirin.coghlan@cllp.ie
*IMPORTANT INFORMATION* Child Safeguarding Statement
Below are our school’s Child Safeguarding Statement, a sample risk assessment and Notification of the Review by our Board of Management.
We would encourage all members of our school community to take time to read these documents.
FREE Classes for parents of English for Speakers of Other Languages and Job Skills
HSE Isolation quick guide for parents and guardians of children up to 13 years of age
Isolation quick guide for parents and guardians of children older than 3 months and up to 13 years of age V V2.9 24.11.2021
Signs of COVID-19 disease: • fever of 38.0⁰C or higher without another medical reason (such as chickenpox or a urine infection) OR
• new cough or difficulty breathing or worsening of an existing breathing problem, OR
• loss of sense of smell, change in sense of taste, or loss of sense of taste (if your child is able to say this) OR
• other minor breathing or chest problems in a child who has been in contact with an ill person, is part of an outbreak or is a contact of someone who has COVID-19
• Other symptoms associated with COVID-19 include fatigue, nasal congestion, conjunctivitis, sore throat, headache, muscle/joint pain, skin rash, nausea or vomiting, diarrhoea, chills or dizziness.
Symptoms may present differently in different age groups and with different variants of the virus. Some symptoms may also be confused with common cold, hay-fever or flu.
If you have any new acute symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, self-isolate and contact your GP. However, if you or your child’s symptoms are very mild then stay at home, reassess after 48 hours and contact your GP for advice.
Self-isolation means staying indoors and completely avoiding contact with other people. This includes other people who live in the same house as your child, as much as possible. Self-isolation is for children who have had a test that shows they have COVID-19 and also for children who have some symptoms of COVID-19, but are still waiting for a test or test result.
Restricting movement – (stay at home). Restricting movement means avoiding contact with other people as much as possible. This includes not going to school, crèche or social activities. Restricting movement is for people who do not have signs of COVID-19 but who may be at higher risk of getting COVID-19 because they were exposed to a particular risk.
Please see gov.ie for the most up to date advice relating to travel.
Free Meditation Course for Parents
Dear Parents/ Guardians
We are delighted to offer a 4-week Meditation course. The tutor for the course is the talented Niall Byrne.
Dates: Monday 22nd and 29th November 2021, Monday 6th and 13th December 2021
Time: 9am to 10.30am
Venue: St. Brigid’s and St. Patrick’s NS, Bóthar Brugha
Places are limited to 8 adults due to social distancing guidelines
If interested contact Vivienne on: 087 183 8649
Sixth Class Online Assembly
Our 6th classes along with the help of Mr. Tobin and Ms. Carville have spent the last few weeks preparing our Online Assembly. The boys had great fun performing, dancing, interviewing, recording and editing the whole project!! We reported on all the happenings in St. Joseph’s since the beginning of the year including the opening of our first ASD class, GAA month, Maths Week and lots more!
We used green screen technology along with our Ipads to create some fun and interesting scenes. Our school commuity can view it here on our website.
Well done to all the boys!!
Staff In-Service Training
The school will close at 12 noon on Wednesday November 10th to facilitate staff in-service training. This date has been added to the Calendar on the Aladdin Connect app.
Halloween Events for parents
Have a Happy and Safe Halloween
Here are a few events that are happening around the country:
- Check the www.ireland.com website for what’s on around the country and what is on next week including the Derry Halloween festival. https://www.ireland.com/en-us/things-to-do/whats-on/#
- Click on https://www.visitdublin.com/ to see events that are taking place around Dublin .You can sort by date event-type or just select the week to see what is happening. You can also select “Family Friendly” events to find out more of what is available for children.
- Pure Cork features many different events on its website: https://purecork.ie/ .This coming weekend the Guinness Cork Jazz festival is making a welcome return https://www.guinnessjazzfestival.com/en-row/
- For all things Limerick check https://www.limerick.ie/ . You will also find list of events taking place at: https://www.limerick.ie/discover/whats-on/browse
- The Irish Times recently announced that Waterford was the Best Place to Live in Ireland in 2021. To find out why check https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/best-place-to-live-in-ireland-2021-whywaterford-city-won-1.4680655 or look at Visit Waterford : https://visitwaterford.com/