A full Primary Catholic integrated school
For God, ourselves, other people, and our environment.
In our friendships with God, the things we do, the words we speak, and what we think.
With God, our friends, our classmates, our teachers, and our families.
St Joseph’s school is a full primary Catholic integrated school that caters for children from Year 1 through to Year 8.
Catholic schools exist to assist parents to pass on the faith to their children. Their purpose is to provide an environment where children will see, experience, share and come to understand a Catholic way of life and learn what being Catholic means through the Religious Education programme.
Five suggestions for ways Family-Whanau can support the Catholic Character of the School:
When children go to school they bring the faith they have inherited from their family-whanau to be expanded through the school’s Catholic environment. The most important part of any school is the people who belong to it – it is through the people that children are most able to learn and experience what being Catholic means.
There are many different ways that parents can help support their children and their school. So that we can compile a list of people we could call upon should we need to, we ask all families to think about where you could help in the following areas:
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