Welcome to the St Joseph’s Primary School website. I hope that you find it both informative and inspiring. Choosing a school for your child is an important decision for all families and one that they spend considerable time researching and stressing about. I hope that our website provides what you are looking for and I encourage all families to book a Principal’s Tour to see our school.
St Joseph’s has a strong Catholic identity that is welcoming to people of all faith backgrounds. We are guided by our role model Jesus Christ and his humanity that was lived out in the Gospel messages. As a Mercy school our charism is distinctively united to the Mercy Sisters and Catherine McAuley. It is through the spiritual and corporal works of Mercy that we express our Catholic Identity and love for God.
I am a strong believer that learning is a lifelong pursuit that never ends. Our role as a school is to partner with families as the first educators of our students to support them in growing their children to love learning and pursue excellence in everything they do. We offer a holistic approach to education that develops skills and knowledge in academic, spiritual, social and emotional, and physical pursuits. We offer a relevant and diverse curriculum and encourage students to value effort and excellence while striving to achieve their true potential.
Our approach to learning is to focus on contextualising learning through integrating different areas of
knowledge while ensuring foundational principles are a daily part of learning. This expands to create a balance of discipline, interdisciplinary and personal learning.
We have a dedicated and highly capable staff who constantly do everything they can to meet the learning and wellbeing needs of your children. They do this through their efforts to build strong relationships with every child and their family and ensure that every child can reach their potential and achieve success.
Our vision for the physical environment looks to meet the learning needs of students and provide a safe and comfortable environment that caters for diversity and flexibility. Our Learning Habitats are flexible spaces with furniture that allows for collaborative learning that can also be self-directed and constructivist, while also allowing for direct instruction. The design allows for contemporary, 21st century learning. Our hope is that students feel and look forward to each day with the learning possibilities that it will bring and the social connections that it will provide.
We know our students are digital natives born into an online connected world with their learning framed in a digital paradigm. This paradigm is constantly changing and morphing in ways not previously imagined. We seek integrate technology into the learning process in meaningful ways as learners seek to engage with tools relevant to them and caters for individualised learning.
Wellbeing is important in everything we do as we work to meet the needs of our students, staff and families. We place an emphasis on respectful relationships and on how to keep people’s moral compass on true north.
Welcome to St Joseph’s Primary School!
God Bless
James Roberts
Principal
