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St Joseph's College - E-Learning Portal

The SJC E-Learning Portal is an online tool to assist students, teachers, and parents with the logistics of teaching and learning at the College.  It also allows parents to access and monitor their child’s or children’s performance(s) at any given time during the school year.


ABOUT US

St. Joseph’s College was the first secondary school to be established in Samoa.  It was set up by the Marist Brothers in February 1950 in Mulivai, until it moved to Lotopa a decade later due to limited space to extend the school to cater for its increasing school roll.  Lotopa was a seven acre estate, and was further inland compared to Mulivai at the Apia Harbour.  With hard work and determination, the Brothers and students managed to turn the seven acre estate into a school compound and a sports field.

 

WELCOME TO St Joseph's College

Our Vision, "To have Marist Brothers\'  schools that are learning institutions of excellence based on Marist Spirituality."

To promote a holistic approach to teaching and learning amongst the Marist Brothers\' Schools, with emphasis on the values of Jesus Christ and the Marist Spirit, to enhance good character, integrity, leadership and excellence academically, spiritually, physically, and culturally.

Personal responsibility, truth, respect, honesty, and trust, are the core values to life that young people need to develop to achieve this.
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The Marist Brothers are the owners of St Joseph\'s College.  They are a religious order in the Catholic Church, founded in France in the year 1817 for the purpose of providing Catholic education to young people anywhere in the world who need their help.  The order was founded by St Marcellin Champagnat who sent the first brothers in the Pacific in 1836.  When the Catholic Church arrived in Samoa in 1845, the first group of missionaries were of a Marist and a Marist Brother.
 
Our college motto is, "Tausisi i mea Aupito Lelei" or "Strive for the Best.  “Tausisi i Mea Aupito Lelei” is simply translated into “Strive for Excellence” which has been the driving force behind the school's achievements both in Academia and Sports.  We see this in current and past students of the school and particularly the ‘Sipili Malisi’ or ‘Marist Spirit’, which is one aspect that makes St. Joseph’s College unique from other colleges in Samoa.  The Marist Spirit is simply working together as ‘brothers’ to achieve greatness by putting aside any differences, positions, or ranking in communities, and just coming together in one spirit – Marist Spirit. 

The Cross

A symbol of our catholic nature and to remind us of Jesus Christ.  Reminds us of the role of Mary.  It is the old symbol of the Marist Brothers.