St Joseph's Payneham

University Australia welcomes St Joseph's Payneham in Payneham South, The aim is to help students develop high expectations for their learning and life, within a supportive, safe and secure environment that encourages independence, adaptability and resilience for learning, enquire online today.

Our school is an exciting place and we want to share some of this excitement with you. We will provide specific information about our educational programs and daily routines. More importantly, this website will serve to welcome you into our caring community.

 Your choice of schooling is one of the most important decisions made on behalf of your child. At St Joseph's Payneham, we have been supporting students and their families since 1962 when the school was established by the Sisters of St Joseph. It is a co-educational Catholic primary school providing excellence in education from Preschool (4 years) and Reception to Year 7. We offer a nurturing environment which encourages happy and successful learning.

Our programs provide a framework which will equip each student with the skills to enjoy a lifetime of discovery and learning with the latest ICTs and modern indoor and outdoor learning spaces. We work together as a team to make sure the needs of every student are catered for through multi-faceted learning experiences. All the staff at Payneham facilitate a learning environment to suit students through their absolute professionalism, dedication and passion.

We encourage our teachers to utilise models of contemporary learning to provide students with flexible and diverse learning experiences across curriculum areas as well as enabling access to online learning spaces.

At St Joseph’s Payneham, we provide learning experiences which:

• enable flexible learning
• are characterised by reflection, higher order thinking
• encourage creativity and collaboration
• respond to the diverse needs of each child
• develop contemporary literacies
• foster a learning community and
• enable timely formative and summative assessment.