Mission Statement / Vision

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to provide an exciting and stimulating learning experience for all of our children. Their journey through our school will be happy and filled with genuine, deep learning. We are and will always be committed to improvement and it is incumbent upon all of us to be life-long learners, to keep abreast of new ideas, innovations in education, continually challenging expectations and to develop personally as a result.

This mission will be pursued in a culture of mutual openness and trust, high emotional intelligence and a deep spiritual commitment to our principles, values and to all of the children and the community which we serve. In doing so, we accept the need to challenge and be challenged, to initiate change and to move ourselves culturally towards visionary excellence. We ask that all who use our school enjoy the experience, assist in our mission, learn and improve as a consequence.

In St. Theresa’s P.S., we are aware of the role that the school has in promoting the life of each child in our care and this involves more than academic considerations. As a Catholic school, we seek to reflect the values, attitudes, beliefs and practices of our Catholic faith and our local community. This involves everyone connected with life in our school (pupils, teachers, supervisors, learning support assistants, our parents, our governors, our church community and clergy as well as other groups and organisations within our locality.

SCHOOL AIMS

St. Theresa’s P.S. promotes high achievement and learning for life by working with children:

to provide a caring, sharing environment based on Christian values;
to become an extension of the catholic home;
to develop the academic, physical, social, moral and emotional abilities of each child so that each child can reach his/her potential;
to provide each child with a broad, balanced curriculum in keeping with the aims of the common curriculum and encourage each child to achieve his/her potential in all curriculum areas;
to promote equality of educational opportunity for all;
to promote each child’s awareness of his/her identity and heritage and have respect for other traditions;
to develop a sense of fairness, tolerance, respect and responsibility towards others.
to develop enquiring minds and a sense of curiosity;
to celebrate their self-worth and realise their abilities, achievements, strengths, and personal preferences;
to instil in pupils life-long learning by motivating pupils to take responsibility for their own learning;
to promote an awareness of the need for rules and regulations within the school environment and to encourage respect for them; and,
to take ownership of their environment both locally and globally.

We believe that each child will achieve success through experiencing:

a broad, balanced and challenging curriculum;
a stimulating learning environment;
a varied programme of extra-curricular activities and school visits;
an ethos that is supportive, encouraging and friendly;
an effective partnership between school, home and the wider community;
a variety of teaching approaches and strategies to meet the needs and learning styles of pupils; and,
access to a range of varied and up to date resources;

We demonstrate our commitment to working as a learning community by:

ongoing self-evaluation to improve on our previous best; and;
Working collaboratively with all our stakeholders.