ST JOSEPH’S Primary School is a Catholic school with a rich tradition in Kerang having opened its doors in 1912.
Along the way, St Joseph’s has continued to evolve and is now a school not only with a great connection to the local community, but also with a bright, contemporary appearance within its traditional shell.
Those families that have chosen St Joseph’s as the school for their children often talk about the “feel” of the place.
That feeling relates to many things: our warm welcome and hospitality, our focus on ensuring learning for all and the respectful expectations around behaviour.
We warmly welcome families – new and old – to St Joseph’s.
The best way to choose a school is to see it in action on a normal day, so book a tour and check out our great classrooms and the excellent facilities we have built over time.
Our enrolments are always open to prospective families and we encourage you to make sure you have toured our school before making that important choice for your child.
St Joseph’s is a school that takes very seriously our staff motto of “Ensuring Learning For All!”
We strive to live up to this motto by providing our students with what they need, when they need it, as a child grows and improves as a learner.
We do this through the structure of a professional learning community.
To be a professional learning community school is not the purchasing of a program or the completion of a course, it is an ongoing, continuous, never-ending process that challenges educators to work collaboratively in cycles of learning and action research to achieve better outcomes for their students.
There are three big ideas that drive the work of our professional learning community:
1) A focus on learning – to ensure all students learn at high levels.
2) A collaborative culture and collective responsibility – all teachers are responsible for each student.
3) A results orientation – actual evidence of student learning.
Our respectful expectations around behaviour come from being a positive behaviour school.
At St Joseph’s we understand that learning and behaviour are mutually supportive.
Appropriate behaviours create environments in which learning can most productively occur.
The expectations of behaviour are communicated through the context of respect for: self, others and the environment.
Just like students learn to read, write or subtract, children also learn what it looks like, sounds like and feels like, to be respectful to ourselves, others and the environment.
We also take the wellbeing of our students very seriously, that is why we employ a school counsellor to provide support to our students in an ongoing way.
The health and happiness of students contributes greatly to their ability to learn and interact with our students successfully.
It is this combined overall focus – academic, behavioural and wellbeing, that makes St Joseph’s a special school for children to attend in their formative primary school years.
If you have a child starting school in 2025 please make contact with us about a school tour or future enrolment by phoning 5452 1426 or email principal@sjkerang.catholic.edu.au.
