Joigny Junior School
At Sacré Cœur, Prep to Year 6 students learn in the Junior School known as Joigny. Here, students develop curiosity and a deep, life-long love of learning.
Joigny students are encouraged to embrace learning through exploration, fostering a sense of self as they engage with the curriculum independently, collaboratively, and actively. We emphasise students' social growth and help them build early critical and creative thinking skills.
Recognising that each student learns uniquely and at her own pace, we tailor our approach with a differentiated curriculum. Class sizes allow teachers to gain deep insight into each girl’s strengths and areas for growth, ensuring every Joigny student is well-known and supported by a team of expert educators in areas such as numeracy, literacy, French, physical education, visual arts, music, choir, library, and learning enhancement.
Our caring Joigny teachers also embody and teach Sacred Heart values, inspiring our students to act with courage and kindness, using their gifts to meaningfully serve others.
Prep to Year 2
Prep to Year 2
Prep to Year 2
In Prep to Year 2, students build strong foundations for future learning, expertly guided by Joigny teachers who are passionate about laying strong literacy and numeracy foundations and fostering a love of reading, writing, and mathematics. Tailored programs create a nurturing and welcoming environment where learning begins with the familiar and extends to new experiences.
Years 3 and 4
Years 3 and 4
Years 3 and 4
In the middle primary years, students broaden their perspectives, enhancing creative and critical thinking while connecting their learning to global issues like sustainability and the environment. Through growing independence and a diverse range of curricular and co-curricular activities (including school camps), they develop confidence, self-esteem, and interpersonal skills.
Years 5 and 6
Years 5 and 6
Years 5 and 6
Years 5 and 6 are pivotal years of transition, when we foster growth, social connections, and readiness for Senior School through leadership and personal development. Programs such as the Prep/Year 5 Buddy Program, Years 5 and 6 camps, and the opportunity to take on leadership roles help students build independence, while broadening their horizons.
Learning diversity
Extension, enrichment, specialisation and support are provided by specialist support teachers who assist in the delivery of individualised learning programs that meet the needs of both highly able students and students with specific learning support needs.
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Outside school hours care
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Joigny Junior School
Named after the birthplace in France of our Sacred Heart founder, St Madeleine Sophie Barat, Joigny is a stimulating, challenging and caring environment for students from Prep to Year 6.A Joigny education builds upon the natural curiosity and enthusiasm children possess, fostering a strong sense of agency and capability (self-efficacy) in each of our students.
Five values form the key tenets of our contemporary learning framework
Purpose
Excellence
Care
Hope
Connection
We understand that each student learns in her own way and at her own rate, and meet these individual needs through differentiated approaches.
Every Joigny student is well-known, supported by a team of specialist teachers including their dedicated Class Teacher. At each year level from Prep-Year 6, students take part in specialist programs that include French, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Music, Choir and Digital Technologies.
In addition, a particular feature of our Junior School curriculum is the Wellness program through which our students are explicitly taught personal and social capabilities to assist the development of their social skills, wellbeing practices, leadership potential and self-efficacy.
Prep to year 2 Foundation Years
The school experience in the foundation years of Prep to Year 2 encourages children to explore and builds upon their natural curiosity, with particular focus upon literacy and numeracy. Our programs reflect a relentless determination to ensure success for all, which is achieved by having high expectations for all students, providing early intervention for children who are having difficulties and ensuring students are actively engaged during learning time.
Specialist programs in Music, Choir, Visual Art, French, Physical Education, Digital Technology and Library enable our students to develop skills and understandings across diverse areas. In addition to Music and Choir, students in Year 2 also participate in an Instrumental program, in which the girls learn to play stringed instruments.
The Student Leadership program begins from Prep, provided through classroom programs as well as the positions of Class Representatives on the Student Representative Council and the Green Team (environmental sustainability group).
Years 3 and 4 Middle Primary Years
Developmentally, learners in Years 3 and 4 become less egocentric and more focussed and persistent. During these years, the students are encouraged to look beyond themselves to the wider world making connections with the environment, sustainability and other global issues which impact on their own world.
As part of their Religious Education program, students in Years 3 and 4 participate in the Sacramental Program. Students in Year 3 receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation and students receive the Sacrament of First Eucharist in Year 4.
In Year 3, students take part in an overnight camp experience based onsite. In Year 4 the students take part in an overnight camp at an offsite venue.
The Student Leadership program is provided through classroom programs as well as the positions of Class Representatives on the Student Representative Council and the Green Team (environmental sustainability group).
The Co-Curricular program offers Years 3 and 4 students opportunities to develop areas of interest beyond classroom learning, and includes activities such as: House Sport; Squad Training (swimming, diving, cross country running, athletics); Chess Club; Yoga; Tennis lessons; Garden Gang; Bow Rock (stringed instrumental group); Calm Club and Drama Club.
Years 5 and 6 Senior Primary Years
In preparation for their transition to Senior School, Years 5 and 6 students develop independence in their learning and a strong sense of self through leadership and personal growth programs.
Specialist programs are undertaken in Visual Art, French, Physical Education, Library, Choir, Digital Technology and Music. In addition to Choir and Music lessons, all Year 5 students study a musical instrument in small groups for the year, participating in various ensembles.
In Year 5, students take part in a three day/two night camp experience that focuses upon the development of personal and interpersonal skills. Students in Year 6 participate in a three day/two night camp that seeks to further develop their independence and sense of self.
In addition to the classroom and class representative positions available in the younger year levels, the Student Leadership program for Years 5 and 6 students calls upon the students to be actively seeking to assist and lead the Junior School. In Year 5, all students take part in the Prep/Year 5 Buddy program which focuses upon outreach to others. In their final year of Junior school, all Year 6 students take part in a leadership program that sees them inducted into leadership positions as members of committees that hold particular responsibilities for the year.
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