Our Senior School provides a nurturing environment for academic and personal success. As a Google school with all teachers trained in the online approach, our learning continues online during this time of Covid-19, assuring curriculum delivery at all times and uninterrupted academic achievement.

Each pupil has their own mentor to guide them and, with classes of 25 or less, individual attention is our speciality. Academic support sessions are offered after school daily, along with a host of sporting and cultural extra-murals for a well-balanced school experience.

At St Joseph’s we embrace the uniqueness of each pupil and celebrate their talents and successes. Critical thinking is an inherent part of our academic programme, which is essential in preparing pupils for the tertiary education landscape.

Academics

The Senior School runs a Mentor Programme monitoring a relationship between two people (mentor and mentee) based upon mutual trust and respect.

This mentoring programme consists of smaller mentor classes, where each teacher in the Senior School is involved in mentoring a small group of students.

The mentor programme is a set of direct and practical tools for living a better life.

It provides for a simple, robust framework for reflecting on the ways we think, speak, act and find meaning in life, and for creating the causes of true happiness and fulfilment. Every fortnight a different theme is addressed. Every week, the themes are discussed and challenges are provided for the mentees. The mentees then reflect on these challenges. The aim of implementing this programme is to give our pupils an opportunity to create a framework of living which genuinely benefits themselves and others.

In addition to the Mentor Programme, the Senior School also provides: small classes of up to 25 children, a Grade 8 baseline assessment (Mathematics, English and Study Skills) within the first two weeks of the academic year to identify any areas requiring special attention; quarterly reporting on pupils’ progress; weekly academic testing; an Academic support programme; a homework/study facility; opportunities to compete in Mathematics/Science/Technology/History and other Olympiads, Expos and competitions.