ST JOSEPH'S BOYS' SCHOOL
"Achievement For All"

St Joseph’s Boys’ School celebrates excellent pastoral care across every year group. Our successful Pastoral Care Programmes ensure that your child is safe, happy, and fully ready to achieve their potential. All staff share responsibility for developing pupils’ self-esteem and self‑motivation, and for fostering a positive attitude towards engaging with a full and varied curriculum.
In Year 8, our short‑term priority is to ensure that our boys make a safe and smooth transition from primary school. Over the longer term, we aim to prepare them for success in academia and future employment during their seven years with us. This time will pass quickly for parents, and all our staff are committed to supporting you throughout this journey through an enriching and meaningful pastoral curriculum. Each year group benefits from Form Teachers and a Year Head, while each Key Stage is led by a Head of School, ensuring all pupils receive the care, guidance, and support they need.
The primary aim of pastoral care in St Joseph’s is to provide a safe environment while building positive, respectful relationships that ensure pupils are ready to learn. Pastoral care is visible every day—in the relationships between teachers and pupils, teachers and parents, and among the pupils themselves. We believe these relationships thrive within a school community rooted in warmth, respect, and genuine care.

Designated Officer for Child Protection: Fiona Harrigan-Stewart
Deputy Designated Officer for Child Protection: Maryjo Shields
 

Celebrating Achievement
 

We celebrate the successes and achievements of our pupils in many ways, including:

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• Prize-giving ceremonies

• Incentive trips

• Class rewards

• Daybook comments and verbal acknowledgements

• Assemblies

• Postcards and letters home

• Pupil of the Month awards

• Displays of pupil work

• School representation at relevant events

• Leadership opportunities such as Head Boy, Prefects, Captains and Vice‑Captains

 
Our Whole-School Pastoral Commitment

We are proud to be a Silver Rights Respecting School, a Being Well, Doing Well School, and a participant in the Emotional Wellbeing in Schools programme. Our staff are trained in nurture principles, restorative practice, and coaching, and we actively engage with the Taking Boys Seriously initiative—a vital focus in the current educational climate.
We are a Gold Aware school, and have delivered workshops in conjunction with White Ribbon, Safer Internet and Addressing Bullying in Schools.   We are a proud Digital School House. Our prefects receive mentoring training through REACH Across.

We are also a Smart Council School, enabling us to gather and listen to pupil voice on a weekly basis. Emotional Health and Wellbeing and RSE lessons are embedded within our timetable to prioritise key pastoral issues.
Additional programmes and initiatives we have led or delivered include:
 

• Smoking cessation programmes

• Pope John Paul II Award

• The Good Deeds Council

• Bereavement support

• Junior and Senior Leadership Teams

• The One Punch Project

• Bikability

• The Daily Mile initiative