Spiritual, Moral, Social & Cultural Procedures

St Joseph’s Specialist Trust considers the promotion of young people and students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development to be a ‘whole school’ issue. This includes but extends beyond religious education to embrace every aspect of the curriculum and the broad range of experiences and opportunities provided for each pupil and student. In terms of spiritual development, we recognise that, whilst many students have cognitive impairments, there is no such thing as a spiritual impairment. We are all spiritual persons. Bishop Comensoli states that “…the profoundly cognitively impaired are in the image of God by nature. There is thus no need to prove that they bear the image of God. It is we the ‘rationally capacious’, who have the capacity to mar the image of God by conscious opposition to God’s grace.” (In God’s Image, Recognising the Profoundly Impaired as Persons, Cascade Books, 2018)