The design of St Joseph’s is far removed from the conventional‘box-like’ classrooms. Innovations in pedagogy and the physical environment have grown out of contemporary understandings about children and learning and from the school’s strongly-held belief that children have a right to the highest quality social and learning experiences. The learning environment provides a diverse and flexible environment where an inseparable relationship has been created between pedagogy and design. Students and staff welcome the friendliness and purposefulness of their Village and treat it with care and respect.

The Learning Environment has been named the village because of the high value the school has for community and collaboration. It will be a place where not only students and teachers come to learn but also parents, carers and other community members to share their knowledge and learn from each other.

The students of St Joseph’s will have an educational environment that fires the imagination, develops good citizenship and promotes a life-long thirst for knowledge. If children are to maximise their learning, then their school must be a place of optimism excitement and challenge, where students and teachers see each day as a journey, full of purpose, and where intellectual engagement and connectedness to the real world are priorities.

St Joseph's Learning Village