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'Let love dwell here'

A warm welcome to our wonderful school!

Welcome

St Anne's & St Joseph's is a Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy within Romero Catholic Academy Trust. As part of the Trust, we wholeheartedly promote St Oscar Romero’s vision, “Aspire not to have more, but to be more”.

The primary purpose of our school is to provide a Catholic education for the children of St Anne’s and St Joseph’s parishes and the local community.  Whilst we have ambition for the highest possible academic outcomes for the children in our care, we recognise the importance of nurturing each individual child, made in the image of God, developing and celebrating their God-given talents. We are committed to working with families, governors, the parish and the wider community to ensure the highest possible standards of provision and outcomes across school.

We are uniquely blessed with 6 acres of land which we are developing to promote Pope Francis’ vision Laudato Si. This includes developing the existing Forest School, providing planting and growing experiences, nurturing the existing pond and meadow fields and utilising the waterfall for meaningful learning activities and opportunities for prayer and reflection.

Our school building has been well developed to meet the changing needs of the pupils in our care. This includes access to sensory spaces, reading areas and regulation zones.

Our children are central to the growth and development of our very special school. The mission leadership teams encompass a wide variety of pupil roles across school, including our Chaplaincy Team, Reader Leaders, Laudato Si team, Wellbeing Warriors, pupil governors and many more.

We are a family of pupils, staff and governors, all doing our best to live as Jesus wants us to, trying every day to make sure that ‘love dwells here’, underpinned by our Mission Statement, “With love and faith, we achieve together, for we are nothing without Christ”.

I welcome you to visit our very special school community to see for yourself the fantastic provision we have and see our school in action.

Mrs. S. Colbeck
Executive Headteacher

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch through the office by contacting Mrs Godden or Mrs Grimshaw on 01254 233019

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St Anne's and St Joseph's
RC Primary School

Sandy Lane, Accrington
Lancashire BB5 2AN

For more information, please direct all enquiries to:

Joanne Grimshaw | School Administration Officer

01254 233019
J.grimshaw@sasj.lancs.sch.uk

Reception Places September 2025

Reception and Pre School Admission September 2025

We still have some places available for our Reception and Pre-School Class in September 2025.
If you have a child or know anyone who is due to start school in September and have not yet applied/secured a place and are interested in coming to SASJ please give us a call, on 01254233019, and we can arrange for you to look round our amazing school. Please note at this stage any application for a Reception Class place for September must be made via Lancashire County Council Pupil admissions on 01254220747 or using the following website address:

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/schools/apply-for-a-school-place/apply-online-for-a-school-place/


If you would like to apply for a place in our Pre- school please contact the school office for more information.


We are very proud to have the Catholic faith at the root of our education but we are also a diverse and inclusive school; we have children who are of other faiths and cultures and welcome all applications.