St Joseph's CBS Primary, Sunday's Gate, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Principal’s Welcome
Céad míle fáilte go dtí St Joseph’s C.B.S.
We are a co-educational Catholic school, under the patronage of the Archdiocese of Armagh and the Edmund Rice Schools Trust. While proud of our Catholic heritage, we warmly welcome children of all faiths and none. At St Joseph’s, every child is valued, included, and encouraged to belong.
Our school is a place of learning, laughter and growth. We want our pupils to discover a real joy in learning, to develop their talents, and to be curious about the world around them. Whether through sport, music, art, drama, or play, we believe school should be fun and full of opportunities for every child to shine.
We work in close partnership with parents and families, fostering a strong sense of community where everyone is respected and supported. As a proud School of Sanctuary since March 2025, we also place great importance on nurturing values of fairness, justice, and care for others—both within our school and in the wider world.
St Joseph’s is more than just a school—it is a welcoming community where children feel safe, happy, and ready to achieve their best.
I invite you to explore our website to get a sense of the life, spirit and belonging that makes St Joseph’s C.B.S. so special.
Our first classes G1 and G2 made a trip to Drogheda Library last week for a book talk. Ann Marie spoke to us about the library, how to join and what a great place it is. She did recognise some of familiar faces of those who are already members. She read us some classic stories and some Christmas stories to get us in the Christmas spirit. The children were so well behaved. We can’t wait to go again.
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Massive well done to our 5th and 6th class Cross country running teams that participated in the St Josephs Secondary School Cross Country Race.
Especially well done to the 6th class team that were placed second overall in the 6th class boys category.
Up the Joe's!! 🟩🟨🏃🏻♂️
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From balance bikes to pedal power - a big well done to our senior infants and fourth classes have been working on their cycling skills with Gareth from Cyclopath. The boys and girls worked on their balance, bike skills and road safety.
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Celebrating Intercultural Week with our fabulous Food Fair. Our wonderful parents shared so many culinary delights from all around the world. Being a School of Sanctuary we want everyone to feel welcome and included in our school community. We are so proud of the many cultures represented in our school and delighted to sample their traditional foods. Thank you to everyone who contributed. It was such a lovely community event. Shoutout to our fabulous photographer Willow in 2nd class
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🚨Enrolment Now Open🚨
We are now accepting applications for Junior Infants and our Autism Class 2026-2027.
Please visit www.stjoes.ie/enrolment to apply.
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Beautiful day out in Clogherhead with our parent's walking group. We walked from the harbour, over the head and up to the village. We enjoyed a fabulous cuppa and treat in @evalynn.coffee. Only a few soggy runners but it was glorious. Thanks to all who came this morning
Congratulations to Alna, Dhanvik and Leyla from 2nd and 4th classes who won 3rd, 2nd and 1st place in the Sherry Fitzgerald Halloween Colouring Competition. There is no stopping these talented artists!
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The boys and girls had spooktacular fun at our Halloween Dress-Up Day yesterday! 🕸️🎃👻💀
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Congratulations to the winners in our Halloween Lotto Draw! All prizes will be given out when we return to school on Monday 3rd November. Thank you so much to all who support our lotto and our other fundraising initiatives. Your contributions are vital to improvements in our school and we appreciate them greatly!! 💚💛 We wish all our pupils and their families a happy and peaceful Halloween Mid-term Break. 👻🎃🍬
Today, we celebrated Black History Month with a special assembly which RTÉ News2Day came to report!🎥
The theme ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’ reminded us of the importance of celebrating our stories, our differences and our shared strength as a school community.
A big thank you to all students and staff who took part and to the news team and News2day for capturing this special moment.
The report was televised on RTÉ 2 today and is available to watch now on RTÉ Player (link available in our bio). It will be shown on RTÉ2 again at 10:10a.m this Saturday morning. 🎬
#blackhistorymonth🖤
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***Bonus Raffle for all our Lotto participants this week!! A reminder that this week you have FOUR chances to win in our school lotto. All participants in tomorrow night's lotto (Thursday 23rd October) will automatically be entered into two extra raffles - One is a national raffle run by our lotto organisers, and the other is just for members of our school lotto! If you are not a member, click the link in our bio to join!
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