At St Joseph’s Cathedral School we are very proud of and embrace our cultural diversity. We display flags on our flagpole with pride each day of all the nations represented at our school. Our school is proud of the strong partnership we have with families from our diverse cultural communities. Parent cultural contacts from our main ethnic groups play an important role in strengthening connections between home and school. They also help coordinate hui, fono parent gatherings and support the organisation of cultural celebrations such as Matariki, Filipino Independence Day, Diwali and Polyfest. We also have student cultural leaders who actively promote and celebrate our schools cultural diversity. These students lead our Maori club, support school waiata, welcome visitors and assist with cultural events through the year. 

We also have a strong Pasifika Sunrise group run by our parent community who meet each week.  This group teaches language, music and culture of the different Pacific identities within our school.  For two terms the children have weekly music with our specialist teacher Mrs Eloise Sime. As a school, we also put on whole school productions, which are performed on stage at Trinity Catholic College Auditorium.

Our children proudly wear the St Joes sports uniform and display positive sporting attitudes during their games. The school offers a wide range of sports for children to be involved in such as futsal, touch rugby, netball, miniball and hockey. We are always keen to be involved in Sport Otago initiatives and compete with local schools in our Cluster Days for cross country and athletics. Our school also holds its own cross country event. We have a Kiwi Sport with the Year 12 students from Trinity Catholic College each year.