Our Mission Statement is at the core of everything we do. It underpins our teaching and learning, and enables us to provide an environment which prepares our pupils as confident, happy citizens.
Through love and service, with Jesus in our hearts and heads, we can achieve anything.
In the letter to the Ephesians, Paul says, “I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Eph. 3:18-19) What is “the fullness of God?” One way to think of it is that Paul is praying that we will be more and more filled with…GOD. The more we are filled with God, the more we are filled with life (since God is the source of life) and the more we are filled with love (since God is love). The more we are filled with God, the more we are filled with peace, patience, kindness, compassion, generosity, joy and every gift of the Holy Spirit. To be “fully alive” is to be filled with all the fullness of God. Jesus came and showed us what being “fully alive” looks like – and our mission is to Live Like Jesus!
Our interpretation of this through the eyes and understanding of our pupils is:
‘Through love and service, with Jesus in our hearts and heads, we can achieve anything.’
In St Joseph’s we strive to welcome each person and enable them to recognise their unique God given gifts in the love and service of both God and others. To achieve this we will promote the following aims;
Aim 1. To be a community of welcome, worship, and witness to our faith, encouraging positive interaction between the family, the school and the parish.
Aim 2. To develop the pupils’ understanding in the diversity and richness of the cultures in our local community
Aim 1. To offer a challenging curriculum centred on Religious Education and characterised by outstanding teaching and learning to extend the children’s progress and engage them in the Big Questions of the purpose and meaning of life.
Aim 2. To create a stimulating school environment that celebrates our Faith and pupil and staff achievement
Aim 1. To celebrate the Word of God through prayer, reflection and liturgy as active learning experiences.
Aim 2. Inclusive worship helps pupils to develop their relationship with God
Aim 1. To foster the children’s welfare, providing pastoral support which is inclusive and will enable them to fulfil their potential.
Aim 2. To create conditions that allows the staff and governors to gain professional satisfaction in their role and enable them to support the school’s aims.
Our Trust Mission is simple, it is to make Christ known, making lives better for our communities, our children and young people.
Inspired by St Teresa of Calcutta, we are people of hope. We have a complete belief in the future we will build together. By offering our children, staff and schools’ opportunities to grow and flourish, we make aspiration and ambition a reality. Our people, just like St Teresa are relentless and fiercely ambitious. We will always reach for that which seems to be just out of our grasp.
As modelled for us by St Teresa of Calcutta, we will have the courage to do what is right. As a community, we will not shy away from making decisions that ensure our communities thrive. We will be brave in our actions. As a truly Catholic organisation this courage will be most apparent in how we collectively support the most vulnerable.
St Teresa of Calcutta changed the world. Together, we will always be pursuing new ideas and best practice in all areas of our work. We will prepare our children and young people for the world that awaits them. A world which they will shape and change.
