Living, Loving

Learning through Christ

With St Joseph as our patron.

We are a loving family, following the way of Jesus.

We live each day in prayer and joyful celebration together.

We realise that learning is key to the rest of our lives.

We listen and work hard towards college, sixth form, university and work.

 

SJCHS School Intent: Our curriculum has five key stones. Planning our curriculum under these five key stones ensures that our Mission Statement is fully lived out in the experiences of our children. This is a good school because:

  • we are constructing a curriculum which is ambitious and designed to give all students the cultural capital and knowledge they need to succeed in life under five keystones:

Our Catholic Life, Our Academic Life, Our Community and Sport, Our Careers and Vocational Life, Our Culture and Reading.

 

Curriculum Intent

Curriculum Intents for other subjects are currently being reviewed with a focus on the Literacy priorities in school and will be updated for January 2023.

 

Curriculum Plans

Reading is a big focus of SJCHS. Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 are read to each morning in an extended tutor time from a carefully selected list of books.

Years 10 and 11 have extra Maths and R.E during this time.

Year 7
Year 7 have 30 lessons: 3 English, 4 Maths, 2 PE, 3 RE, 3 Science, 3 Spanish, 2 History, 2 Geography, 1 Reading, 1 Literacy 1 Computer Science, 1 RP and 4 lessons of Art, Engineering, Performing Arts, Music or Food across two weeks.
Students are organised into four teaching groups.

Year 8
Year 8 have 30 lessons: 3 English, 4 Maths, 2 PE, 3 RE, 3 Science, 3 Spanish, 2 History, 2 Geography, 1 Reading, 1 Literacy 1 Computer Science, 1 RP and 4 lessons of Art, Engineering, Performing Arts, Music or Food across two weeks..
Students are organised into five teaching groups.
Set five have one literacy lessons in place of one Spanish lesson.

Year 9
Year 9 have 30 lessons: 3 English, 4 Maths, 2 PE, 3 RE, 3 Science, 3 Spanish, 2 History, 2 Geography, 1 Reading, 1 Literacy 1 Computer Science, 1 RP and 4 lessons of Art, Engineering, Performing Arts, Music or Food across two weeks.
Students are organised into five teaching groups
Set five have one literacy lessons in place of one Spanish lesson.

Year 10 and 11
Year 10 and Year 11 have 30 lessons including GCSE options. The core subjects are: English 5, Maths 5, Science 6, RE 3 and 1 PE. Each student has three options with 3 lessons each and 1 literacy lesson for sets 3-5. Sets 1 and 2 have an extra Science lesson.

Financial Capabilities

St Joseph’s has been a Financial Capabilities Centre of Excellence for many years. We are able to provide bespoke, financial education to our students through the delivery of a 4-year scheme of learning. This is delivered as a full day each year to all year groups and then interleaved into various other subject areas throughout the school, including Food Technology, Business Studies, Maths and Sport. Students are encouraged to take an active role in their personal financial affairs, such as budgeting, financial literacy and risk awareness; ensuring that students receive a well-rounded financial education ready for life, post-16.