“We walk in the footsteps of Christ and are held in the hand of God.”
Our mission, "We walk in the footsteps of Christ and are held in the hand of God," serves as the guiding principle that underpins all aspects of our educational aims in a Catholic primary school setting. This mission is the cornerstone for creating a nurturing and inclusive educational environment where students can grow spiritually, intellectually, and morally, guided by the teachings and example of Christ and supported by the loving presence of God. Furthermore, our mission supports our efforts to foster children's spiritual growth by emphasising the importance of following Christ's example of love, compassion, and service to others. It encourages students to deepen their personal relationship with God through prayer, reflection, and participation in religious rituals and practices.
Aims of Religious Education
Our aims for teaching and learning in Religious Education as a Catholic school promote our vision and purpose for all children, guiding them to learn and grow with us as they become the next generation of Catholics in the wider world. These aims include;
To present engagingly a comprehensive content which is the basis of knowledge and under- standing of the Catholic faith;
To enable pupils continually to deepen their religious and theological understanding and be able to communicate this effectively;
To present an authentic vision of the Church’s moral and social teaching so that pupils can make a critique of the underlying trends in contemporary culture and society;
To raise pupils’ awareness of the faith and traditions of other religious communities in order to respect and understand them;
To develop the critical faculties of pupils so that they can relate their Catholic faith to daily life;
To stimulate pupils’ imagination and provoke a desire for personal meaning as revealed in the truth of the Catholic faith;
To enable pupils to relate the knowledge gained through Religious Education to their under- standing of other subjects in the curriculum;
To bring clarity to the relationship between faith and life, and between faith and culture.
The outcome of excellent Religious Education is religiously literate and engaged young people who have the knowledge, understanding and skills – appropriate to their age and capacity – to reflect spiritually, and think ethically and theologically, and who are aware of the demands of religious commitment in everyday life.