LAPTOPS IN CLASSROOMS

Our Form 1 students have received the laptop computers made available to them through the Government E-Connect and Learn Program. This 1 to 1 program will obviously have a major impact on teaching and learning in our school and their teachers are already planning how to integrate this new technology into their instruction. Check them out as they learn to use their newly acquired laptops in a class.

DIVALI 2010

At St. Joseph's Convent Port of Spain we pride ourselves on our true respect and appreciation for our country's heritage and the diverse culture and religons of our people. So we celebrated the Hindu festival of Divali with a grand cultural event. Many students peformed songs, dances and skits. And of course, there was the ever popular East Indian fashion show too!

Check out some of the outstanding performances on that day!

CHRISTMAS END OF TERM 2010

Each Form 1 student at St. Joseph's Convent, Port of Spain, helped decorate our school Christmas Tree with a personally created ornament. They also sang carols and parang for their peers, parents and teachers during the lunch time ceremony.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2010

St. Joseph's Convent Port of Spain held their annual Christmas Concert on the school compound.  Our multi talented students performed all sorts of Christmas dances and songs. Check out some of the fun performances at the concert!

LITERATURE WEEK 2010

The English Department organised an exciting Literature Week  where students were able to showcase their skills in literature by performing plays for their peers and teachers in the School Chapel. Check out some of their performances.

SPORTS DAY 2010

We held our annual Sports Day for the year 2010 at the St. Mary's Ground, Port of Spain. The highlight had to be the colourful march past and the competitive cheer-leading challenge. Check out the fun below!

SCHOOL AWARDS 2010

The Annual St. Joseph's Convent Port of Spain Awards 2010

The ceremony was held on Friday 15th January, 2010 to celebrate our achievements during the past year. Students were honoured for their outstanding efforts academically, both on an internal level as well as nationally in the CSEC and CAPE, as well as in extra curricular activities.

Click below to see photographs of the occasion.

SCHOLARSHIPS 2010

National Scholarships 2010

These students were awarded national scholarships as a result of their outstanding results at the CAPE 2009. The Principal, staff and students of St. Joseph's Convent, POS recognise the hard work and dedication that this would have required and would like to congratulate them on their amazing achievements!

CARNIVAL 2010

Our annual Carnival celebrations were held on Friday 12th February 2010 where the students honored the cultural event of Carnival. The following images show just some of their  costumes and dances performed by the students. Mama, that was mas!

FRENCH DAY 2010

La journee francais (French Day)

On October 9th 2009, Form 3 and Upper 6 represented our school at the Journée française held at Queen’s Hall and put on by the French Teachers’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago. At the event, the Form 3s dramatized a song while the Upper 6s recited a poem and sang in French (see photos). Both performances were well received. In addition, Kimberly Salloum and Ysabel Bisnath (of Upper 6 Modern) participated and won book prizes in the Spelling Bee competition. Congratulations to all those who represented SJC at the event!

ITALY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010

After traveling for a grueling seventeen hours, we arrived in Riva,  with our steel pans intact, to meet pretty cold weather. We were staying at the Portici Hotel, overlooking Lake Garda, on the Piazza,  with  weathered, old buildings made of stone from the neighbouring mountains (the Alps) which were covered in snow at their summits even in springtime!

We were immediately treated to authentic Italian cooking, course after course after course of unusual combination of salads, cheeses and soups and specially cooked meats followed by a milk dessert….. wow! Luckily for us most of the people seemed to be able to speak English which meant that simple things like shopping and sightseeing were more enjoyable.

Professor Eisenbeiss, the Musical Director of Interkultur (Musica Mundi) visited that evening and asked us to perform for the opening Ceremony which was indeed a great honour as 39 countries were being represented in this Competition!

The choir was truly impressive and were at their peak with the audience clapping after every piece even though it was not allowed! We sat in the audience after-wards and listened to some of the following choirs. We sat in amazement as we heard the most glorious music from so many nations, we heard such trained voices as to make us think they must be professionals and recognized as well that we were indeed a very young choir compared to the range of the other choirs who were mostly in the brackets of 16 to 19 years. Our range was 11 to 17 years.

We also sang for a Secular Concert where we were able to vary our programme and include songs like the operatic “Quando m’en Vo” from La Boheme by Puccini in Italian of course! also the Gospel song “Somebody’s Knocking” and “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord” from Godspell.

We even sang in our local Piazza for the entertainment of the local people “Zottelmarsh” a German Marching Song (which they seemed to know) and a lovely lilting Irish piece “Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded” by Havelock Nelson, written especially for the St. Joseph’s Convent Choirs, which they very much enjoyed .

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