ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION DAY MASS & LEADER INDUCTION
St Joseph's Foundation Day Mass & Student Leader Induction
9.15am - Bathersby Centre
All are welcome to attend.
To acknowledge the commencement of the 2023 school year a mass and Year 12 induction will be held on Thursday, 9th February at 9:15am in the Bathersby Centre. This date is St. Joseph's School's Foundation Day and a fitting tribute to this occasion and our Seniors for 2023.
Following mass our 2023 Seniors will be presented with their Senior badges. Those students who have taken on official leadership roles will be officially inducted with a ceremony.
St Joseph's School had its beginning with the arrival in Stanthorpe by four Sisters of Mercy on the 9th February 1875. They were Sisters M Agnes, Emilian, Muredach and Malachy, This small group of dedicated Sisters pioneered Christian education enduring great hardships in the fulfilment of their apostolic mission.
The foundation stone for the Convent building now on the Secondary campus was laid on 11 October 1931. The building cost the grand sum of 12,258 pounds and solemnly blessed and opened by his Lordship Dr J Byrne, Bishop of Towoomba on the 17th of April 1932.
The original school was formerly the Globe Hotel. The school occupied the position more or less where the current Presbytery now stands. It was thought that its initial roll call was in the excess of 120 students, some of whom travelled considerable distances by foot from th the outlying tin mines. The original 'school' consisted of one large room with the barest of necessities.
