St.Joseph's Primary School

05/10/2026

Our pupils, as stakeholders, play a very active role in our school community and we endeavour to ensure our pupil voice is heard. Over the last number of weeks, the boys and girls have been busy preparing speeches for our recent committee elections and we are pleased to have our 2026/27 committees now fully constituted.
First up, we would like to introduce our ‘Active Travel and Wellbeing Champions’. This group of children will work alongside Mrs Fitzsimons to lead a range of Active Travel initiatives throughout the year. They will also support her in embedding the EA’s ‘Being Well Doing Well’ programme, which is a Whole School Approach to Emotional Health & Wellbeing.
“A Mentally Healthy School is one that adopts a Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing which helps pupils to flourish, learn and succeed.” (Anna Freud, National Centre for Children and Families.)

02/10/2026

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💚❤️ CELEBRATING 125 YEARS: OUR CLUB, OUR STORY, OUR FUTURE ❤️💚

🎨 CHILDREN’S 125th ANNIVERSARY POSTER COMPETITION

Calling all our U8, U10 & U12 boys and girls!

As part of Kilclief Ben Dearg’s 125th Anniversary celebrations, we’re inviting our younger members of our community to get creative and design a poster inspired by our special anniversary theme:

✨ “125 Years - Our Club, Our Story, Our Future” ✨

What does Kilclief Ben Dearg mean to you?

It could be the team you play with, the friends you’ve made, your family’s connection to the club, a special memory, our history, the green and red or even what you imagine Kilclief Ben Dearg will look like in the future.

🍦🍨 MABEL’S VOUCHERS TO BE WON!

There’ll be a boys’ winner and a girls’ winner in each age group:

🏆 U8
🏆 U10
🏆 U12

And every single entry will be proudly displayed at our 125th Anniversary Gala Dinner on 24th October, helping us bring Our Club, Our Story, Our Future to life on the night. ❤️💚

📄 POSTER SIZE: A4

✏️ ON THE BACK:
Please include your child’s name, age group and either their school or a parent/guardian contact number.

📍 LEAVE YOUR FINISHED POSTER AT:

• Connolly’s Shop, Strangford
• St Malachy’s Primary School, Kilclief
• St Joseph’s Primary School, Strangford

📅 DEADLINE: TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER

🎨 Get the colours out, get creative and show us your Kilclief Ben Dearg story!

02/10/2026

First Kickers - love this group!

We are delighted to launch the first kickers group for boys and girls born in 2021 or later

This group will start NEXT WEEKEND - Saturday 10th October - in Inverbrena Hall in Strangford at 9:30am

This is a fun environment with focus on fun and enjoyment, engagement and movement - with excellent coaches all ready and raring to go

If you're interested in your child attending, please private message this page so we can gauge numbers etc.

02/10/2026

🌳 Forest School 🌳
P4 and P5 had a wonderful morning at Forest School. They foraged for natural resources to create fabric pictures by extracting the pigment from petals, berries and leaves. They enjoyed climbing up the rope ladder and swinging from the ivy vines! 🙂

02/10/2026

🌟 Friday Awards 🌟 Congratulations boys and girls 👏

01/10/2026

As part of our Literacy Action Planning, we are focusing on developing pupils’ Oracy through our whole school focus on Poetry throughout 2026/27.
The explicit teaching of poetry helps children find their voice, expand their vocabulary, develop imagination and express their thoughts and feelings in creative ways. Through weekly exposure to a wide variety of poetry, we give pupils the tools to read, recite, perform and enjoy language with confidence. A love of poetry can inspire a lifetime love of reading and writing. To celebrate National Poetry Day, we held a whole school assembly this morning, to showcase some of the wonderful poetry we have explored so far on this learning journey. Each class performed brilliantly- we hope you enjoy this little snippet of the talent that was on display! Well done everyone!

29/09/2026

🐵🎵 Mini’s Music 🎵🐵
Primary 1 & 2 had so much fun today during their first Mini’s music session of the year! Elaine & Mini were very impressed with their beautiful singing voices & fantastic dance moves! 👏

28/09/2026

🧱 After school Lego Club 🧱

Today our junior club had great fun creating their own Lego farm and castle models. The senior club created their own names and their own model of choice - fantastic! 😊👏

26/09/2026

Phase Two of our building programme is now complete and we are delighted with the result! We would like to share a short walk through video of our internal refurbishment with our school community. *Disclaimer: We do not own the rights to this music*

24/09/2026