The School Curriculum
The school’s curriculum is designed to:
- Enable each child to achieve his/her full potential in levels of academic maturity, physical development and independence.
- Help children to discover and appreciate their particular aptitudes and strengths.
- Identify, stimulate and develop each child’s unique creative ability.
- Educate pupils in the principles of the Catholic faith, and to promote respect for moral values and tolerance of other races, religions and ways of life.
- Enable children to develop lively, enquiring minds and a desire for further learning.
- Promote independence, confidence and individuality.
- Awaken and develop the child’s sense of self-worth.
- Help the child value, extend, and live within a variety of relationships.
- Develop respect, commitment and responsibility for others and thereby equip children to be able to make a positive contribution to the society in which they live.
- Prepare pupils for future life, beyond school into the community and the world of work, by equipping them with academic, social and life skills.
- Provide opportunity for the child to pause, reflect and respond to the world around them.
The School provides a balanced curriculum in keeping with guidelines outlined in the Foundation State and the National Curriculum Documents and is consistent with the policy of the Local Education Authority. That is, a curriculum consisting of the core subjects (Maths, Science, I.T and English), supplemented by the foundation subjects (PHSE, Technology, History, Geography, P.E., Music and Art). In addition provision is made for the teaching of R.E. in accordance with the Diocesan Syllabus. The content of the curriculum and the way it is delivered varies from class to class according to the age and individual needs of the children.
Successful teaching depends on good organisation, careful planning and regular monitoring of children’s progress.
We believe that children learn best from their experience; from experiment, discussion and observation. However, there is also a place for more formal methods of teaching. A good teacher employs a variety of teaching styles; a blend of formal and informal teaching methods as best’s suits the subject and the children involved.
Children learn many things at school besides the skills and processes and areas of knowledge introduced through academic studies. We believe that education is more than that. It is concerned with the development of the whole person. It is concerned with developing such things as a sense of fairness, respect for the truth, the value of the individual and responsibility for self and for others. We try to provide opportunity for these ‘hidden’ areas of the curriculum by making our school a friendly, secure, supportive, well ordered and disciplined place – a place where children are happy to be and eager to learn.
