Growing Together

Growing in Faith

Growing in Knowledge

Growing in God's Love

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Vision

Building respectful relationships focused on love, peace and integrity.  A curriculum driven by stimulating intellectual curiosity.

At St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School, we value each child as an individual with a unique potential for learning.  We consider our school a haven where all pupils feel safe to grow, are encouraged to thrive and inspired to become their very best self.  Our holistic approach means we deeply value developing the whole child academically, spiritually and physically. 

Pupils are taught to respect, encourage and celebrate others- as a school family we champion diversity as richness. Peace, integrity and love, as Jesus taught us, is core to the way St Augustine’s focusses on building positive respectful relationships for everyone within our community.

We aim to provide a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum, opening up a world of intellectual curiosity to our children.  Igniting curiosity stimulates the brain, and we therefore engage pupils in all areas of learning by stimulating inquisitiveness- instilling a desire to learn, explore and think deeply.

A curious mind is a learning mind and, as such, we provide a broad curriculum by offering the full-range of National Curriculum subjects that we value equally, ensuring they are taught excellently; we provide balance by sequencing the content thoughtfully for progression in knowledge both disciplinary and substantive and the development of skills.  Our learning is therefore sequential and cumulative as we focus on pupils knowing more and doing more as they progress through our school.

We value making learning memorable and therefore, wherever possible, we theme lessons around inspiring ever-evolving topics and creative, exciting resources.  Having a cross-curricular approach enriches the balance and breadth of our curriculum, building learning by linking it together.

Values

Our school Values are Love, Peace and Integrity.

As Catholic Educators, our aim is to search for EXCELLENCE, Nurture the UNIQUENESS of the individual, Strive for the education of the WHOLE person, Value education for ALL, Develop MORAL principles, Encourage our children to be WITNESSES of the world!

Gospel values underpin all our work. 

Our Ethos Statement

The school was founded by, and is part of, the Catholic Church. The school is to be conducted as a Catholic school in accordance with Canon Law, the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Trust Deed of the Archdiocese of Southwark. In particular:

Religious education is to be in accordance with the teachings, doctrines, discipline and general and particular norms of the Catholic Church.

Religious worship is to be in accordance with the rites, practices, discipline and liturgical norms of the Catholic Church.