The History of our School
" What is now known as St Joseph's Takapuna was christened St Mary's Industrial School in 1846 by Bishop Pompallier.He started the building before leaving for Europe in search of priests and nuns for New [...]
Digital Learning in Room 1
How did being a medal winner make you feel?In Room 1 digital learning is a key part of every day. We use it throughout the curriculum and especially enjoy the RE digital resource that the [...]
Religious Education Term 3
All throughout the year we emphasise our Mercy Values of Tika – Justice Pono – Truth Aroha – Compassion Manaakitanga – Hospitality Tapu – Respect (with special emphasis on our Environment) and try to incorporate them [...]
Living and Learning at St Joseph's
The children and their teachers are following aspects of the Olympic Games with interest. Some of the thinking, talking and writing is about the obvious successes but is also about effort, perseverance, self control, resilience, disappointment, gratitude and so [...]
Term 2 Mathletics Statistics for St Joseph's School (Takapuna)
Whole School Average First Score 75% Average High Score 98% Average Improvement 31% Total Live Mathletics correct answers 477714 Total Curriculum correct answers 200493 Certificates 1044 Star Improvers 3158 Top 3 students all from Room 8! #1 Mikal [...]
St Joseph's Cultural Festival
This year we plan to hold the cultural festival near the end of Term 4. Our Concept for Learning in Term 4 is Future and our inquiry is going to be around what New Zealand [...]
Celebrating the Olympics
Cate Dunne and our Sports Leaders organised and ran a very successful celebration of the Olympics on Friday 3 August. We started with an opening ceremony in the Hall followed by four fun activities. We were in [...]
Room 8 Maths using IWB
In Room 8 we have enjoyed using the interactive whiteboard at Maths time to help us in explaining our multiplication problems. We have tried recording our own stories using the sound recorder, and then using [...]
The Catholic Schools Convention Wellington 8-10 August 2012
"This gathering brings together Catholic educators, Bishops, priests, school trustees and a range of others associated with our national Catholic education system. Our 239 schools and 30 or so Early Childhood Services, along with the [...]
Word Clouds in Room 6
In Room 6 we have been using word clouds to summarize our holiday into key words. A word cloud is an online tool that organizes text visually into a word cloud. You can [...]