Published January 14, 2021
Every week, our staff send in their submissions for the Happiest Minute of the Week. These can be anything from a whole class behaving well, to the small and kind gestures that make someone’s day!
All of these Happiest Minutes are then presented to the whole school every Friday by Mr. Ford and Mr. Bartel in the weekly rewards raffle.
As part of our ethos here at St Joseph’s, we love to share kindness, gratitude and positivity. So without further ado, here are this week’s nominations for Happiest Minute of the Week!
Happiest Minutes of the Week
Mr Bartel:
- Many thanks for welcoming so many new pupils into our community in such a short space of time. A lot of you have made great efforts to make sure they feel happy and safe in our school and this is the most important thing.
- Thank you also for being so polite and informative to parents on school tours – special mentions to GG (11F), OW (8F), KD (9M), KP (8V), AQ (8V) and the whole of 7M.
- SR (11F), GC (11M) ED (11V) and HW (11T) for forming a volleyball team that Mr Brown and his team were unable to live with.
Mrs Nobis:
- I would like to nominate CM (9T) and CF (9F) for telling me that they had work that could be done when a teacher was delayed arriving to lesson, and then going to the Geography room to collect the books to do it. They then handed them out. Absolute superstars!!
Mrs Snell:
- SB (7M) for being so engaged and reflective on the New Forest trip – absolute star!
- JC (8M) for having a positive attitude and getting involved on the New Forest trip. Showed real interest in the subjects discussed. Can’t wait to go biking with you.
Miss Mallows:
- Thank you to DI, MW, and AM (9M) and LR and RB (9T) for sharing their Art and Photography work that they have been doing in their free time and giving me inspiration and excitement to explore new techniques with them in lessons.
Mr Minns:
- Please congratulate DS (10M) and JPB (10F) for an excellent effort on the practical on Thursday in Science.
- Also thank you to SG (7M), SP (7V) and FA (7T) for their musical sound contributions in Science on Monday.
- Finally all of Year 11 Set 3 Science set (Mr Minns’s class) for an excellent attitude to their learning.
Mr Valjak:
- TKP (8F) for showing great and consistent commitment to his learning in RE.
- MS (7T) for his thoughtful contributions about justice and poverty.
- TM (10V) for his outstanding and persistent effort in RE in both his class and book work.
Mrs Martin:
- KC (7V) excellent reading, EE (7V) for kindness and politeness in tutor time, TB (8F) for fantastic effort in French classes, and ML (8T) for excellent effort in French.
- Year 11 Spanish for their hard work doing speaking prep.
Mrs Evans:
- CF (7T), TH (7V), AM (7M), ES (7M), CW (7M) for outstanding work in both Design and Art. Well done.
Mr Thompson:
- RS (7V) for being a pro with his fractions in maths.
- MS (9F) for reluctantly allowing me to teach her fractions in pastoral on Tuesday period 6.
- FM (7M) for working really hard with his report this week.
Mrs Barratt:
- LM, HD (10M), JE, EB, AC, NT (10T), AR and ACM (10V) for embracing the Public Speaking competition.
- ED, SW (11V), LG, SR (11F) GC, ES (11M), MH and HMC (11T) for stepping up for the prom committee.
Well done to everyone for another wonderful week and we hope you’re all settling back in after the Christmas break!