St Therese of Lisieux Primary School

We, the Governors and staff of St Therese of Lisieux Primary School, are committed to providing our pupils with a positive attitude towards Catholic education. Christ’s values and gospel message are an intrinsic part of our ethos, daily running of the school and our curriculum. We try to ensure that we work in partnership with the home, parish and the wider community to strengthen our pupils’ vision of their role as part of the Catholic community.

With a smile and a helping hand, we inspire the children of today to become the adults of tomorrow.The Governors and staff of St Therese of Lisieux Primary School, are committed to providing our pupils with a positive attitude towards Catholic education. Christ’s values and gospel message are an intrinsic part of our ethos, daily running of the school and our curriculum. We try to ensure that we work in partnership with the home, parish and the wider community to strengthen our pupils’ vision of their role as part of the Catholic community.

We aim to promote high achievement and learning for life by:

• Providing a Catholic education within a caring, safe and friendly environment
• Developing our children’s individual needs and talents to their full potential
• Fostering positive, caring relationships within the whole school community where children are encouraged to recognise and respect the feelings and attitudes of others
• Encouraging children to accept responsibility for their own behaviour, through promoting self-discipline and increasing independence
• Providing a broad and balanced curriculum delivered with support and encouragement to succeed
• Continually striving for improvement, working together toward common goals.

St Therese of Lisieux Primary School is one of the parish schools of Holy Family Parish. The school is situated on the Antrim Road and the present bright and well maintained building opened in September 1988. It has been furnished with a purpose built lift catering for those children with mobility difficulties.The main school consists of a two storey building containing 14 classrooms, two specially dedicated Special Needs Rooms, a Reading Room, a Library, a P.E. Hall, Canteen and Staffroom. Classrooms are grouped in clusters of three or four and open on to a shared learning area where children have access to a number of resources including computer work stations. Play areas are central to the Foundation and KS1 classrooms and create a stimulating, interesting and inviting area for Foundation and KS1 children. The P.E. Hall is well equipped to meet the demands of the revised Northern Ireland Curriculum. All classrooms in the school are connected to the C2K network and all rooms contain Interactive Whiteboards.