St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School

‘Guided by Jesus, Learning together, Striving for excellence’

As a Catholic school, we aim to provide a Catholic education for all our pupils. At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school. We therefore hope that all parents will give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school.

Why?
Forming Christ-centred pilgrims of hope with kind hearts, questioning minds, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for justice.

Within our school, pupils, staff, and families are formed as Christ-centred pilgrims of hope with:

• Kind hearts – “Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony” (Colossians 3:14).
• Questioning minds – fostering curiosity in the light of faith. “Turn your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding” (Proverbs 2:2).
• A thirst for knowledge – “An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it” (Proverbs 18:15).
• A hunger for justice – “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied” (Matthew 5:6).

 

Catholic Values & Virtues at St Joseph's

Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of Birmingham must ensure that, as part of their Catholic teachings from Learning and Growing as the People of God, Values & Virtues are a key focus. These values and virtues show how pupils are growing in their faith as well as how schools help children to grow. Every half-term there will be a different focus. It is intended that all the Catholic schools across the diocese look at the same value and virtue, which will help strengthen our common bond.

Pupils at St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School are growing to be:

• Grateful for their own gifts, for the gifts of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, becoming men and women for others.

• Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.

• Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.

• Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.

• Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relations between people, and the world.

• Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.

• Curious about everything, and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better.

• Intentional in the way they live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience; and prophetic in the example they set to others.