Welcome  to  our School      

 Headteacher:    Miss C McKeever M.A.

 Our mission is to help one another to live out the gospel values. These values, the love of God and our neighbour, should be found in every aspect
 of the school's life. We aim to achieve this through a partnership between the school, the home and the parishes.
 
  "The Lord calls us to be human agents who plant the seed of his word and create an environment in which it can grow" (Cor. 3:5-9)

Our history
 

Our School opened in January 1959. It replaced the St. John's Wood Parish School in Fisherton Street, which was bombed during the war.
 Since then we have had just four Headteachers: Terry Casey (1959 - 1962); Tom Moran (1962 - 1979; Danny McDonald (1979 - 2008) and
 Miss C. McKeever M.A. (Since 2008). During this time, the school has earned a reputation for high expectations and academic excellence.
 We nurture a caring, Christian ethos, and we strive to develop the full potential of all pupils, regardless of  ability or race.


 Our aims for all pupils.

 

The spiritual development of our pupils as caring members of the Family of Christ is central to our Mission Statement. Within this context, we also aim to promote:

  • promote their full academic, personal and social development
  • encourage independence in work and judgement
  • help pupils make decisions with an accepted moral code
  • recognise four aspects of achievement:

          1.   the ability to assimilate facts accurately and use them in written for

          2.   the ability to identify and solve problems independently

          3.   the ability to work well with others, showing social skills of co-operation and leadership

          4.   motivation and the ability to build on failure and learn from mistakes.

 

Who runs our School


St. Joseph's is owned and managed by the diocese of Westminster in close partnership with Westminster Education Authority (WEA)

 

The School Governors are responsible for the school life and ethos of school, through:

  • working with the school on setting up policies, planning and monitoring the school's performance;
  • the appointment and well-being of the staff;
  • reviewing the school's admission Policy;
  • deciding how the school's budget is spent;
  • the maintenance and good repair of the school buildings.

The governors are appointed for 4 years, have legal duties, powers and responsibilities, and work together on behalf of, and with
 the support of, the pupils, parents, staff, parish and local community.

 

The Headteacher is responsible for the day-to-day management of the school.

 

The Governors

   

 Priscilla Sharp (Chair of Governors)

 Mrs Sharp has been a governor for more than 30 years. This includes terms as a governor of both primary and secondary schools and Sixth
 Form College. She has been at St. Joseph's since the early 1980's and Chair since 1985. She has a City and Guilds Certificate in Adult
 Education.

 Anthony de Lacey has been a Foundation Governor for over 10 years. He is a chartered Accountant  and Chairman of Buzzacott LLP, a firm
 of Chartered Accountants based in the city of London, which includes a number of schools and colleges among its client

 Peter Stanford has been a Foundation Governor since 2004.  His two children are at St Joseph’s  and he is involved, on behalf of the
 governing body, in staffing and future planning issues . A writer and broadcaster, who edited the Catholic Herald newspaper, he also
 volunteers on school trips and has come in to talk to the children on World Book Day

 Robert Rigby is a Foundation Governor at St. Joseph's since 1988. He is a marketer working for a Japan Airlines company based in London.

 He is a trustee of a children's charity in North London and Governor of a Secondary School in the Borough of Hackney. His interest includes
 politics, cricket and running.
 Shirley Henry -  has been a Foundation Governor at St. Joseph's for 4 years. She was a Foundation Parent Governor at Mount Carmel RC Technology
 College for  Girls and support the College for 5 years.
 

 

 Jacqueline Power is a Parent Governor at St. Joseph's and have 2 children attending the school, She works in the interior design department o a
 large architectural practice in Camden Town and also studying for a City and Guilds in Jewellery at the City Lit Holborn. 

Fr Alexander Master became a Foundation Governor of St. Joseph's in 2007, and is a member of the staffing and finance sub-committees. As well
as his membership of the governing body, Alexander is also associated with St. Joseph's in his role as school chaplain. He was ordained in 2004,
and has been working as assistant priest in the local parish of St. John's Wood since 2006, based at the Church of our Lady on Lisson Grove.
Before that, he was a chaplain at the John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals in Oxford.

 

Andrew Heffernan - 

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 Camilla Hallinan is a Foundation Governor, appointed by the Diocese, and is currently the SEN link governor and chair for Admissions. Over  the years
 she's also been particularly interested in the introduction of the Literacy Hour and the fantastic new Library at St. Joseph's. As managing editor of the
 Eyewitness series of the children books published by Dorkling Kindersley, she loves seeing how books are used at the school  -  not to mention the
 great book stall all at the Summer Fair!

 
 

Emanuela Federspil Bernstorff has been a Parent Governor since October 2006. She has two daughters at St. Joseph's.
She is very much involved in the life of the school, in particular in the School Association, for which she is in charge of Communications.
Emanuela read Law at the University of Bologna, Italy and worked as Marketing and External Relations consultant in Italy and the UK