Thank you for visiting our clubs and extra-curricular opportunities page. Here you will find all the information you need to know about the additional opportunities we provide to our children to support their personal development and to inspire them to try something new. We are very proud of our commitment to extra-curricular opportunities and ensure we continue to engage and motivate our pupils, developing them into active, resilient life-long learners who have high aspirations for themselves, their community and God’s world.
If you require any information for any clubs/extra-curricular activities, please speak to the school office who can direct to you the relevant member of staff. If your child is in receipt of pupil premium funding, and/or you require support in covering the cost of any clubs, we encourage you to speak a member of our Senior Leadership Team.
Here are the clubs we have on offer this year
PE Partner Club Link
Click here to book your child’s place on our PE Partner Club (Wednesdays and Fridays)
Chess Club
Gardening Club
Origami Club
‘Take a Chair’ Upcycling Project
Spaghetti Maths
STEM -Young Engineers Science Club
At St Joseph’s, we want children to love Science and we continuously look for ways to excite children’s curiosity of the world around them. We strive to make learning as practical and as hands-on as possible, encouraging children to think and work scientifically, through fun, active learning. STEM Engineering Science club has been able to offer further opportunities for children to develop positive attitudes towards Science, build their working scientifically skills and encourage them to ask questions in the form of an after-school club.
The children could create and take home their the items that they made during the club.
Forest School Club
We are pleased to continue with Forest school club which is run by Chris at Go wild outdoors. This club is offered to all year groups across the school year and it gives our children opportunities to learn new and transferable skills in a unique forest school setting with an experienced teacher who is trained to deliver a forest school curriculum. Chris is passionate about geography fieldwork and encouraging children to love and respect the outdoors. The sessions are all active and outdoors in various parts of our school setting.
Chris at go Wild outdoors shares our vision that we want to provide our children with a personalised curriculum. He has considered our outdoor space and conservation and helped teach the children how to protect our wild spaces. Chris also shares our vision to raise self esteem, awareness and self confidence with an appreciation of the natural environment through outdoor adventure, which we do on a daily basis through our active learning curriculum.
Our forest school club has been able to offer further opportunities for children to develop resilience to new skills, make links to other curriculum areas through forest school led activities, develop the children’s team work and perseverance when set challenges out of their comfort zone and also provided our children with the enthusiasm to take their forest school club skills to other curriculum areas inside and outside the classroom.
Here are a selection of photos that show the activities that take place in forest school club.
Around the World Club
Music Club
During the summer term, Key Stage 2 were invited to join our music club. In this club, the children used their bodies to dance, clap and stomp along to different music to help them develop their understanding of musical concepts such as beat, pulse and tempo. A firm favourite for the children in this club was to compose and perform their own music too. We used both the chime bars and ‘Garage Band’ on the iPad to do this. We had lots of fun and it was great to see the children gain in confidence with their musical understanding!
Easter Arts and Crafts Club
Young Voices
Children in Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 are invited to join the Young Voices choir each year in preparation for the extremely exciting event of the year – the Young Voices concert at Sheffield Arena! We have had to wait a long time as we haven’t been for the last couple of years and this year’s concert has already been postponed twice but we are finally going in May! Our Young Voices choir rehearse at their after school rehearsals and at home, using the Young Voices children’s room where they learn songs (including the lyrics), the dance moves and other tips and tricks to make the concert run smoothly and most of all, to allow the children to have the most fun possible!
Young Voices Rehearsals
Young Voices Concert – Friday 13th May 2022 (Sheffield Arena)
On Friday 13th May, many of our Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 children attended the Young Voices concert which was long awaited, after a couple of years with no concerts due to covid restrictions and then another 2 postponements this year. Well, what a time they had! It has been lovely to hear from the children, and parents who also attended the concert as audience members, what a wonderful time was had by all! Please check out the website under ‘School News’ or ‘Extra-Curricular Opportunities’ to see some more photos and find out more about Young Voices, and all of the other opportunities we have at St Joseph’s for our pupils. Thank you to Mrs Cooper & Mrs Harrison for arranging Young Voices and to Mrs Jackson, Mrs Hope and Mrs Hilton-Green for giving up their time to attend the concert as parent helpers. Well done to all of our children for representing our school so fantastically – we are so proud of you all! Watch the video below to experience Young Voices with us!
