The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart had a particular call to care for the needs of the poor. They did this through providing schools to educate the children of the many poor people in the Australia and New Zealand of the nineteenth century. This work has continued until our own day. Apart from education the Sisters of St Joseph responded to other welfare needs of poor people including support for refugees and families in distress.

Here at Joey’s, we often refer to Mary’s now famous quote “Never see a need without doing something about it.” We aspire to be as generous with our time and talents as St Mary and her Sisters were with theirs. What great role models of humility and charity they were and still are today. The Josephite charism inspires both our school mission statement.