Our Curriculum
Our Vision
Our Vision
The St. Joseph’s School curriculum is based on Catholic faith and Christian values building a nurturing environment of education in faith through home, school and parish partnerships that value and reflect the multicultural and bicultural relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our Vision is that students can move into the future empowered with the confidence, skills and Catholic values to be motivated and useful members of society.
Faith - Excellence - Success
Faith - Excellence - Success
Laying the foundations for life
Laying the foundations for life
Our Curriculum Guiding Principles
Our Curriculum Guiding Principles
Our guiding principles for our curriculum are:
- Lifelong learning incorporating 21st century pedagogy for children, staff and community
- Making connections between life, faith and culture of all members of the community
- Excellence – empowering all students to achieve personal excellence and success
- Attitudes of respect and gratitude – responsible stewardship for the earth and social justice
The Gospel values of Jesus Christ with an emphasis on our core values of
- Respect - Whakaute
- Honesty - Pono
- Caring - Manaaki
- Perseverance - Hiringa
Personal Attributes
- Competent, appropriate and effective communicators
- Confident
- Desire to learn
Integrating key competencies for living and lifelong learning including:
- Thinking - both critically and creatively
- Relating to others - including collaboration, co-operation, team player, sharing, considerate, listening skills, interactive negotiation
- Understanding language, symbols and text - interpretation, speech, listening, reading, writing, technology
- Self Management
- Participation and Contribution
Our Learning Areas
- Religious Education
- English
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Health & Physical Education
- Science, Social Sciences & Technology
- The Arts
- Te Reo Maori
- Information & Communication Technology