St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School

Catholic Life of the School

We live to love, learn and follow Jesus who says, "Love one another as I have loved you."

Catholic Life of the School
We live to love, learn and follow Jesus who says, "Love one another as I have loved you."
At St. Margaret Clitherow Catholic School we believe and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. We value and respect all; growing and learning together as part of God’s family, to be the best we can be. Our mission statement of “We live to Love, Learn, Respect and follow Jesus who says ‘Love One Another as I have loved you’” permeates all aspects of our school life.

The governors and staff of St. Margaret Clitherow Primary School recognise that they work to educate the children in their care in a range of ways, as the centre of this is the spiritual development of the children, particularly in the Catholic faith.

As part of the community of Catholic schools who work alongside the Catholic Church there is a clear purpose for the existence of St. Margaret Clitherow Catholic School.

It is the mission of all Catholic schools that we contribute to the ‘common good’ of our community and society as a whole in response to the Church’s teaching on social justice.

When pupils join our school they become part of this community. Every day starts with an Act of Worship, we give thanks before lunch and we end the day with a prayer. We believe that Christ is at the centre of all we do and therefore we offer each child a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum of the highest standard to meet their spiritual, emotional, moral, intellectual and physical needs and to prepare them for the responsibilities of adult life.

The programme of Religious Education we follow in Key Stage Two is in line with the Catholic Directory as specified by the Bishops Conference of England and Wales. In EYFS and Key Stage One we are following the new Religious Education Directory “To Know you More Clearly”. Religious Education is taught to all children in the school for a minimum of 10% of curriculum time, not including worship.  It is considered central to the whole school curriculum. We follow key teachings from Catholic traditions that are taken from the RECD (Religious Education Curriculum Directory) and the new RED. Through these directories the children are taught the basics of Catholic faith and morality, with constant reference to their own life experience.

We have excellent links with our parish church, English Martyrs, and the parish priest, Fr Albert Ofere, is a regular visitor to school. The school attends mass at English Martyrs on special occasions and a class attends mass on a Friday on a regular basis.  The parish priest also celebrates mass and Liturgies at the school throughout the year including the special Tie-ing in Assembly where our Reception children are officially welcomed to the school.

Please click on the links below for websites relevant to our Catholic community.

English Martyrs: https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/wembleypark/

Wednesday Word: http://www.wednesdayword.org

Diocese of Westminster: http://rcdow.org.uk

The Holy See: http://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html

Catholic Herald: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk