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• St. Joseph's Secondary School has been awarded the major environmental award of the Green Flag by An Taisce in conjunction with Mayo County Council. It was raised by the school Trustee, Bishop Brendan Kelly on Thursday, May 29th after 11am Mass.

• Great credit for the award is due to Mrs. Breege McHale, Green Flag Co-ordinator and her team comprising of Transition Year, 10 Second Year students, staff members Miss Heavey and Mrs Fielding, Mr. Anthony Ruane, Local Community Representative and the whole school community. Comhghairdeas le chuile dhuine a bhí bainteach ann.

• The Annual Prizegiving/Display of Awards took place on the afternoon of Thursday, May 29th 2008. The presentation followed the raising of the Green Flag at 1.30 pm.

• Following on from the successes of TY Students in the 2008 BT Young Scientist Exhibition, TY Girls achieved two first places and a runners up prize in the IT Sligo Sci-Fest on April 25th.

• Congruatulations to Darragh Quinn and Shane McHale who are members of the Mayo Minor GAA team. Deirdre Gallagher is a member of the Mayo Ladies GAA teams at Senior and Junior levels.

• The First Years spent a most enjoyable day in Inis Mór, Aran Islands on May 9th. Following a long trek to Dún Aenghus, they enjoyed a barbecue on Cill Muirbhí beach before returning home after a pleasant outing.

• Retreats have now taken place for Junior and Senior students. The school is most grateful to Fr. Joseph Gavigan and the Religion teachers for their hard work and attention to the religious faith of our pupils.

• St. Joseph's is listed in the top 400 secondary schools in Ireland. It is ranked 127th in Ireland and 6th in Mayo. It is the 8th largest provider in Ireland of students to Institutes of Technology. It sends 80% of its Leaving Certificate students to Third Level Education. (Irish Independent 10/12/07)

• THREE students at St. Joseph's Secondary School, Foxford were among the prizewinners at the 2008 BT Young Scientist of the year Exhibition. Sean Hynes, Conor Phillips and Eamonn Wlash were awarded 2nd place in the Senior Technology Section for their project entitled 'Hand Held Timed Drug Dispenser', which reminds patients to take their pills on time. The group was presented with its prize at a ceremony in the RDS attended by students from a total of 210 schools from across the country.

  About 36,000 visitors attended the exhibition where 1,128 students displayed their projects. The school had three other projects in the competition, which was attended by their Parents and teachers, Miss Marie Lavin and Declan Cafferkey.

• The Second Year CSPE students invited a speaker into the school from Amnesty International on Wednesday November 28th, 2007. The students were responsible for organising the event. Marie-Anne Michel answered all the students questions about refugees and asylum seekers. A donation towards the work of Amnesty International was made. Marie-Anne thanked all the students for the welcome she received. She also commented on the organisation and interest shown in the topic.
  
  
• A new I.T. Room was installed during the summer with state of the art facilities including data projectors, server etc. This is an excellent addition to our I.T facilities and we wish the students every good luck with using the new room.
  
  
• As part of the Summer Works Scheme 2007 toilet facilities in the school have been upgraded. We are very grateful to the DES for providing us with the grant to carry out these much needed upgrades.
  
  
• A new Textiles Room is now in use in the Top School. This is a welcome addition to the Home-Economics Department. The furniture and equipment for the room has been funded by the Department of Education and Science.

• A new Parents Association/Council has been elected. For more information click here