St Josephs Fairfield - Hamilton

29/09/2026

Year 5/6 Pukeora Sports Tournament

Our combined Year 5/6 winter sports tournament, held at St Joseph’s and Woodstock last Thursday, was a fantastic day filled with teamwork, effort and fun.

Our students showed wonderful sportsmanship, encouraged one another and made the most of every opportunity to get involved.

There were plenty of smiles, laughs and exciting moments throughout the day. A big thank you to all our supporters for your encouragement!

29/09/2026

Year 3&4 Basketball Success!

Our St Joseph’s Y3 & 4 Basketball team have taken out the Primary Grade in the Waikato Basketball League — going UNBEATEN yet again!

Huge congratulations to the boys on an awesome season!

And a massive thank you to all the parents who coach, score and support the team week after week.

What a team!

25/09/2026

Collaboration Concert Success

Last night Te Kōwhai School and St Joseph’s School came together with over 200 students to celebrate the hard work of their Choirs, Kapa Haka groups, orchestras and bands throughout the year. The venue (St Paul’s Chapel) was just stunning.
Thank you to Marieke Nation for all of her hard work organising this. Marieke works both here and at Te Kōwhai, so pulling this together across two schools was no mean feat.
For those who attended, you will agree that we have some very talented students! 

25/09/2026

Chess Lessons with Chess Power Term 4

Kia ora,

We are once again partnering with Chess Power for chess lessons held after school.

Class details:

- Mondays 3:00 - 4:00pm in the Library
- Starts Monday 12 October 2026, finishes Monday 7 December 2026 (8 sessions)
- The Coach for Term 4 is Jasper Podmore

Parents can register here: https://www.chesspower.co.nz/class-registration, all the details are on the flyer.

24/09/2026

Ahiahi Mariē. Here is the link to our latest newsletter. Happy reading!

St Joseph's Newsletter T3 Wk 10

22/09/2026

Sharing of Learning - Friday 25 September - Year 0-6
- from 1.40pm

Kia ora koutou,

Friday is the last day of Term 3. Our Year 0-6 classrooms will be open from 1.40pm for the afternoon for whānau to visit, so that your children can share their learning with you.

Our students are proud of their learning and love showing their classrooms and their school work to family!

Please note that Year 7&8 will be at Techni on Friday afternoon, so this is for Year 0-6 only.

What a lovely way to end the term!

21/09/2026

21/09/2026

REMINDER - Concert tomorrow evening at St Paul's - Tuesday 22/09

Kia ora koutou,

We are looking forward to seeing our student's talents tomorrow evening. Year 5-8 choirs, Year 4-8 kapa and our orchestra will all be performing, alongside Te Kowhai School.

Students are to arrive at 6.00pm please. They can come straight inside the St Paul’s Collegiate School Chapel to be signed in, and then kapa haka students will be taken to get changed in an allocated room.

What to wear/bring

Full school uniform
Kapa haka - all boys need PE shorts (for those boys who are not in choir or orchestra, they can wear PE shorts to the concert)
Kapa haka girls - hair half up, half down
Drink bottle
Concert starts: 6:30pm

This concert is a fundraiser: tickets are on sale on Kindo. $10 for an adult, $5 for a child. Proceeds for St Joseph’s will go towards new performance poi and music equipment.

We are grateful for your support.

If your child cannot make it, please reply to this email to let us know.

We are looking forward to a wonderful evening celebrating the incredible music and cultural learning happening in our schools.

20/09/2026

Liturgy Week 10 Term 3

After Room 1 and Mrs Jones' class shared the Gospel with us, we had some more celebrating to do!

The Caritas KAITIAKI2SHARE competition is an annual creative idea competition that invites students from Catholic schools across Aotearoa New Zealand to share their unique, creative, and thoughtful ideas on how we can care for and protect all of God's creation.

2026 Theme: Answer the Call - Be a Kaitiaki of Creation
"The Lord God put man in the garden to work it and keep it." - Genesis 2:15

Congratulations to Sarah (Year 6) who was placed in the top 10 in the country for her poem. Sarah's prize package of $100 includes Caritas vouchers for her to choose a worthy cause for her to donate to. What a great poem she wrote!

We also celebrated some students who were not at Assembly on Friday to receive their certificates.

A great start to the week!

20/09/2026

Assembly Week 9 Term 3

Our last assembly of the term was held on Friday.

Schools are busy places, so a couple of classes couldn't join us for assembly as they had Financial Literacy lessons with the ASB Getwise programme, but the show must go on!

The Junior team hosted assembly, and it's always a pleasure seeing our youngest students confidently speak in front of the whole school. They really rise to the occasion and we are so proud of them.

We celebrated:

- Principals, Spirit and Superstar certificate recipients
- Lucia who got 2nd place in the WFPS Cross Country Year 8 girls, a huge achievement.
- Sun Ah and Jamie who placed first in Gymnastics regionals
- Enzo 3rd in Yr 7 Physical World Science Fair
- Braxton and Felipe, Highly Commended Scientific Video
- Lucas, Bella and Theo who presented their speeches confidently at the WFPS Speeches competition last week
- All the students who represented us at AIM Games recently

Our students continue to represent us so well at a wide range of endeavours, we are so proud of the way they take on every challenge!