St Joseph's Catholic Infants School

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Welcome to St Joseph's Camberwell Catholic Schools Federation. St Joseph's is a happy, secure school at the heart of a vibrant inner-city community that celebrates life.

We aim to nurture and support the personal growth of each unique individual inspiring the gospel values of faith, hope, love, peace, justice, and truth. The children are educated in a Christian setting preparing them for witness in the wider community.

We are committed to providing a stimulating, challenging, inclusive learning environment and quality first teaching so that it captures the imagination, empowering learning at every opportunity. We ensure that enrichment activities provide opportunities for the children to perform, articulate and collaborate through music, sport, drama, and philosophy.

Our families are proud and passionate about the school they are supportive and determined for their children. The pupils' energy is positive, boundless, and infectious. They are well behaved, they work hard and enjoy school.

At St Joseph’s we aim to ensure that every child matters and all children are nurtured and learn without barriers. Our children are raised in the context of a diverse and vibrant Catholic community within the teachings of Jesus Christ and are witnesses to a Christian way of life. At St Joseph’s we belong to a loving, welcoming, forgiving family that lives in the life of the Gospels.

We celebrate that St Joseph’s is a secure, happy school with high expectations trusted by the community. We embrace honesty, responsibility, respect, equality, tolerance, and acceptance. We recognize that children can grow spiritually, emotionally, physically, intellectually, and creatively and so will consequently, achieve their very best in an ambitious, supportive environment.

St. Joseph's is a Catholic school that seeks to live out the values of Jesus Christ. We promote these values by our words and deeds, a Catholic doctrine and practice, therefore, permeates every aspect of the school’s activity.

We provide a Catholic curriculum, which is broad and balanced, recognizing every pupil is unique and is created in the image of God. Our curriculum is designed to enable every pupil to discern their vocation and to be well equipped to follow it as active citizens in service to the world.

Catholic Religious Education is the ‘core of the curriculum’ and the foundation of the entire educational process. We also provide a wide range of extra-curricular activities and strong pastoral support. We incorporate democratic principles, the value of the rule of law, support individual liberty and foster a community in which different faiths and beliefs are respected.

At St Joseph’s we use the Letters and Sounds scheme for teaching phonics. This begins as soon as the children start with us in Reception and continue throughout the school into Year 2. We place a strong emphasis on the daily teaching of phonics as we believe this lays the foundation for successful reading.

At St Joseph’s we use several reading schemes and a series of books. For Guided Reading in class, we plan mainly from Walker Books and the Big Cat series of books.

St Joseph's Catholic Junior School Year 3 to Year 6 Pitman Street Camberwell SE5 0TS +44 20 77033455 [email protected]

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