“My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.”

Dr Wayne W. Dyer

Outdoor learning is not just sport, outdoor pursuits and high-risk activities. It is taking the everyday curriculum and teaching it outside. The grounds at St. Joseph’s College provide the perfect setting to facilitate this. We do not have to ride in the College’s fleet of minibuses. We step outside the classroom and the world is our oyster…

At St Joseph’s College we believe in preparing students to perform confidently, independently and creatively upon the global stage. We pride ourselves in empowering young performers and artists to achieve great success and draw breath from the incredible resources of language, communication and performance. Recently our students have enjoyed success within LAMDA and we very are pleased to announce that our first cohort of ATCL performers, who sat Trinity examinations, took performance to a whole new level.

In any school leadership is critical, as is the inclusion of students as part of that leadership. The position of prefect is a position of responsibility and one which provides an important connection between pupils and staff. Our Year 6 prefects represent eight different teams: Digital Leaders, Play Leaders, Peer Mentors, Eco-Committee, Media Ambassadors, House Captains, Lunch Hall prefects and the Learning Council.

As the response to the Government’s consultation on ‘schools that work for everyone’, expected this spring, draws near, so the debate over the opening of new grammar schools and the issue of selective v non-selective education in state funded schools continues.