Educating the Whole Child

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SALT LAKE CITY — The mission of J.E. Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School is to guide our students to become respectful, responsible, and productive citizens through quality academic instruction that is grounded in Catholic teaching and tradition. This means we are dedicated to teaching our students more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.

At Cosgriff School, our faculty, staff, and administration are committed to the support and development of the whole child. Academics are just one element of student learning. While it is essential for students to learn the basic core subjects, there is much more involved with teaching children to be knowledgeable, healthy, motivated, and engaged individuals.

Cosgriff School focuses on providing its students with skills necessary to be successful, not just in high school or college, but as successful adults, leaders, and citizens. In addition to rigorous academic instruction, students attend weekly art, music, physical education, foreign language, and technology classes. Students experience a well-rounded curriculum that exposes them to different ways of thinking and viewing the world.

In addition to learning in the classroom, students learn through community service. Each month, Cosgriff students participate in service projects to help disadvantaged people locally, nationally, and internationally. Students complete projects with their school families. Each school family is made up of at least one student from each grade. By participating in service projects with their school families, students learn to give back to their community, work in a group, and gain leadership experience.

Students at Cosgriff thrive in a caring, safe environment with engaging, challenging, and targeted instruction that encourages complex thinking and decision making. By educating the whole child, Cosgriff is able to prepare its students to be successful in a complex, ever-changing world