Welcome to St Joseph's Primary and Nursery School's Website!

"Go where there is no church and build one there"-words written in 1888 by Reverend Mother Feltz, the Superior General of the Congregation of La Retraite.

When the local press reported that the Sisters were about to move into The Rookery, in Oxford Street, Burnham-on-Sea, it stated, "they further intend to have a young ladies' boarding School and hope before long to open an elementary day School." The elementary day School was called St. Joseph's and opened in 1891.

In 1890 the Axebridge Union, writing on behalf of the Board of Education to inquire what steps the School authorities could take to prove its efficiency, were invited to come and carry out an inspection. The report was so satisfactory that in 1902 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School was placed on the grant list as a Voluntary Aided School.

This School strives to lead pupils to an awareness of their own gifts and
responsibilities so that they can assume a worthwhile role in the society in which they live.

We will use our Catholicity to develop this awareness so that each child knows that they are made and loved by God and are, therefore, worthy of esteem.

With this knowledge they will learn to respect and love not only the world around them but all the people who come into their lives.

This will encourage them to accept their responsibility to use the
gifts they have been given with increasing wisdom.