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News
 Art Auction On Wednesday 2nd July, St Joseph’s held its inaugural Art Auction in aid of Lasallian Developing World Projects and the Zapallal school in Peru. Over 100 pieces of work were donated by both staff and pupils and the evening proved to be a memorable one.
It was a pleasure to welcome Old Boy and auctioneer Johnathan Benson, back to the College; Jonathan works for Reeman Dansie Auctioners in Colchester. He had the audience of bidders in tears of laughter with his constant repertoire and amusing observations.
The evening began with drinks and nibbles, whilst the audience of both students, staff and parents viewed the items up for auction. From then on, the gavel was busy until the final bid was received.
Over £2,500 was raised and all proceeds will be split between the Lasallian developing world projects and the De La Salle School in Zapallal, Peru. This is such good news for the College and due to the huge success, we are already planning another auction next year!
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This years GCSE and A level results will be held on the following days:
Thursday 14th August - A level
Thursday 21st August - GCSE
Next years dates are:
Thursday 20th August - A level
Thursday 27th August - GCSE
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The British Model Flying Association |
 College is National Electric Plane Competition runners up for third year in a row.
Ten A level physics students are this week celebrating a third year as runners up in the National Electric Plane competition held at Elvington Airfield, Yorkshire.
The competition which runs alongside the Heavy Lift Challenge invites schools, colleges and universities from across the country to construct a plane to carry the greatest cargo during a ten minute time slot.
St Joseph’s College team, having spent just under a year researching, designing and constructing two planes, suffered a couple of blows prior to leaving for the event, however with much burning of the midnight oil they were finally ready to compete.
Following a night camped out at Elvington, the students gave the judges a presentation on the two planes, before preparing for their first flight. The day started well with a successful flight by the heavy lift plane carrying 3kg, however the second flight saw the plane laden with 4kg take a spectacular nose dive to the ground taking them out of the competition.
The second competition involved the electric plane flying over the required circuit full of 20 eggs, before landing, restocking and taking off again. The final payload after a 10 minute slot was 114 eggs.
Sadly the next flight saw the plane experience technical difficulties and so they lost out to Strathclyde by just 5 eggs.
The competitors were all aeronautical students from universities except Allenyes School from Staffordshire. The universities use the competition to give curriculum time on aeronautical design and flight theory, so quite a remarkable success for these A level students. Well done everyone.
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Boris is back!
Once again St Joseph’s Pets’ Assembly was a huge success. All the staff, pupils, parents and pets met on the green outside the new Nursery, Infant and Junior Departments to meet and share stories of their pets. Just some of this year’s pets were: Ducklings, a Shetland pony, newts, hissing cockroaches, speckled hens, numerous cats and dogs, fish, tortoises, fire-bellied toads, and even a stag beetle which was found in our beautiful woodland by a pupil during the assembly!! (The beetle was safely returned to the woodland afterwards.) The star of the show was Boris the Boa Constrictor. It is Boris’ second visit to St Joseph’s and he is extremely popular with all the children.
The assembly ended with a wonderful blessing of the animals by Sister Carmel, readings and prayers by staff and pupils, and a joyful hymn: All things bright and beautiful. 
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