Welcome to St Joseph's

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Curious Minds with a passion for the arts

Welcome to St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Queens Park.

St Joseph’s is a double stream, co-educational, Catholic Primary School, catering for students from Pre- Kindergarten to Year 6.

St Joseph’s was established in 1915 by the Mercy Order of Sisters and many of their foundation principles underpin the traditions of the school. One of these traditions is the care and concern for each and every individual of the St Joseph’s Community; student, staff and parents. Gospel values of Truth, Justice, Endurance, Dignity, Charity, Peace and Compassion remain central to our teachings and practices.

St Joseph’s is a faith sharing community with close links to the parish. The Parish coordinates the Sacramental Program in close liaison with the school. Children complete Reconciliation in Year 3, First Communion in Year 4 and Confirmation in Year 6.

Students have access to an up to date computer lab, modern library and specialist teachers in physical education (Pre-Primary – Year 3) and Italian (Year 3-6). Children have the option of participating in a number of School and Inter school Carnivals and are fortunate to have access to St Norbert’s College swimming pool for training. A combined swimming club called The Saints is an initiative between the College and St Joseph’s. The children also have a performing arts teacher and have performed at an extremely high level in Dance, Choir, Bible reading, Drama and Christian Drama.

A comprehensive Capital Development Plan has recently been completed providing outstanding classroom and facilities where staff and students feel safe and are able to reach their potential.

We support and encourage parents to extend their child’s education beyond primary school through to St Norbert’s College. It is recommended that the enrolment applications for a place in the College are completed as early as possible. Enrolment brochures for St Norbert’s are available in the front office.

St Joseph's School History

Founded in 1915 alongside St Joseph's Church

In 1898 the Sisters of Mercy from Derry, Ireland established a Convent at Victoria Park. At that time the Victoria Park Parish extended from South Perth to Armadale, thus including the area now known as Queens Park. The Year 1912 saw the completion of the Church named after St Joseph at Queens Park – a ‘station’ Church for the Victoria Park parish.

In 1915 the St Joseph’s Church/School was established, due to a large extent to the efforts of Mrs D Cantwell, proprietress of the Coronation Hotel. The foundation Sisters at the school were Sr M Aloysius Phelan and Sr M Alphonsus Bennett who travelled daily from Victoria Park.

Calendar & Events

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Online Enrolment

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St Joseph's
School Vision

We at St Joseph’s School Queens Park, are a faith community striving to recognise and respond to the image of Christ in us all, as we grow through work and prayer.

St Joseph’s Motto: “To Work Is To Pray”.

OUR Values

As St Joseph’s was established by the Mercy Order of Sisters many of their foundation principles underpin the traditions of the school.

One of these traditions is the care and concern for each individual of the St Joseph’s Community; students, staff and parents.

Gospel values of Truth, Justice, Endurance, Dignity, Charity, Peace and Compassion remain central to our teachings and practices.

Our School Prayer

St Joseph’s School Prayer

In our Centenary Year 2015 Lynda Beadle, a staff member, wrote a School Prayer for us. The prayer originally began with the words “We pray to you in this centenary year of St Joseph’s School”. We changed it to “We pray to you as the community of St Joseph’s School” after the centenary year was over. Lynda ensured that this prayer honoured the Mercy tradition of our school by saying that we remember the Mercy values of Justice, Compassion, Tolerance, Peace and Forgiveness. Copies of the school prayer are in every classroom of the school and are printed on a photo that Lynda took of a rainbow over an original feature of the school that was not changed in the rebuild. The rainbow was a symbol we took for the whole of our Centenary Year.

Dear Lord,
We pray to you as the community of St. Joseph’s School
To honour the Mercy sisters by remembering their values, Justice, Compassion, Tolerance, Peace and Forgiveness.
Grant us the courage to live by these values and bless our school community,
Past, present and future.
We ask this in Jesus’ name.
Amen

Curriculum

Educational Priorities

Literacy and Numeracy remain educational priorities and this year we are striving for children to achieve their potential.

One of the keys to success is the parent teacher partnership and I would encourage you to work closely with the classroom teacher for the benefit of your child and support the school by attending parent/teacher meetings and interviews. Where possible also add your name to reading rosters and the like.

Integrated into our curriculum this year is Values Education. Each term the values introduced to the children will be related to a whole school theme.

Physical Education will also be a focus and children will be given plenty of opportunities to gain fitness and develop skills.

Making an impact in our community