St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Our School

Welcome

Over 150 years of St Joseph's School - Our Prayer Garden

Our Faith

Mission Statement and Aims

Meet the Team

Governors

PTA

Pupils

St John Paul II Multi-Academy

British Values

We encourage pupils to take part in the welfare and running of the school and believe that offering responsibilities to them is an important part in developing them for the future.

School Council

Our school council consists of ten children - two children from each class from Year Two to Year Six - that represent the diverse nature of our school.

We have participated in initiatives such as purchasing playground equipment and games for wet play as well as establishing new ventures such as eco-warriors and playleaders. These are just a few things that we have participated in.

The school council improves pupils and teachers relationships, demonstrates good communication skills, decision making and teamwork. Pupils have pride in themselves and in our school. Everyone’s opinions count towards making a better school environment.

Eco Team

Here at St. Joseph's we care about the environment and know that it is our responsibility to look after our planet. Our Eco Team meet to discuss what we can do it school to support and promote environmental issues as well as ensuring our school does all we can to save water, energy and to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Mental Health Ambassadors: The Mental health of our children is always a priority for us at St Joseph's. Our Mental Health Ambassadors are always on the playground to help resolve any worries or concerns our children have. The children receive training and are supported by our Mental Health Lead Mrs Chambers.

Digital Leaders: Digital Leaders are children with a skill and interest for computing, keen to share their knowledge with others, and promote the use of all things digital throughout the school community. It's a fantastic opportunity for children to take on responsibilities, develop their team work and communication skills. Our leaders, so far have supported younger children in their Computing lessons, they have trialled new apps for use in lessons and they have set up and run a coding club for Year 3 children.

Monitors

Year 6 pupils also embark on many other duties to help the smooth running of the school these are carried out on a rota/volunteer basis and include:

Library Monitors: who use the ICT login system to scan and shelve the returned books, they also tidy and re order the displays and maintain the books in the Dewy system and A-Z of authors.

Play Leaders: Our Play leaders do a fantastic job all year round supporting children on the playground with taking part in games at lunchtimes and teaching them the social skills needed. Our play leaders also help support our PE lead with other events throughout the year including our annual Sports day each summer.

House Groups and House Points

In each year group, the classes are divided into four groups and are put into houses. The names for our house groups are St John, St Matthew, St Luke and St Mark.

Pupils have to demonstrate good behaviour and manners and be hard-working and polite to earn house points for themselves. dependent on how many house points they achieve they progress through the Bronze, Silver and Gold awards with the final goal being the St Joseph's Platinum medal.