"Together We Grow and Learn in God's Love''

written by the pupils, staff and community of St Joseph's  

At St Joseph's, our Mission Statement has been written collectively by the pupils, staff and governors at our schools. Our Mission Statement is at the heart of all that we think, do and say. Our Mission Statement permeates throughout our schools and underpins our ethos of working and learning collaboratively together.

As parents/carers, pupils, parish, governors and staff, we strive to achieve the very best for all who learn and work with, and for, our schools. We are proud to be a community where our love, compassion and deep respect for others embodies everything we do. We grow together academically, emotionally, socially and spiritually to be the very best best we can be, irrespective of race, religion, cultural or social background, or ability.

Our motto, 'Everybody is welcome' underpins our values that we are Catholic schools who welcome families of all faiths and none. At St Joseph's, we believe that we are all part of God's family and our schools are rich and diverse with families from both religious and non-religious backgrounds.

Our core values focus are based on the Catholic Social Teachings and focuses on developing skills for life.  These values are core to every part of our lives and are reflected in the way that we treat each other, the way that we look for every day opportunities to help those in need and in how we strive to be the very best we can be. 

Our Religious Education Ambassadors are central to the life of our schools. They lead prayer in assemblies, masses and religious services.They also make important decisions about the life of our schools and how we help make our schools a kind and safe space for all our community to grow and learn.  They decide which charities we should support and in the past we have donated to CAFOD, Brentwood Catholic Children's society as well as McMillan Cancer Support. We also donate food to local communities in need as well helping those affected by  global  conflict.   

Fr Bijoy is our Parish Priest and regularly visits the school with Fr Gerry to help the children in their learning. They take part in community social events and lead masses and celebrations both in school and in

St Joseph's Catholic Church. Our priests always make time for us and we have lots of masses throughout the year. 

All parents/carers  are welcome to attend our 'Start of Year' masses on:

St Joseph's Catholic Infant School                     Wednesday 25th September at 9:00am 

St Joseph's Catholic Junior School                    Thursday  26th September at 9:00am 

Our masses will be followed by a special coffee morning to help raise money for Macmillan cancer Support.