Botwell House Catholic Primary School

Botwell House Primary School is a Catholic School intended for the education of Catholic children where we aim to provide a catholic education for all our pupils.

At a Catholic school, Catholic doctrine and practice permeate every aspect of the school’s activity. It is essential that theCatholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school. All applicants are therefore expected to give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school.

As a Catholic school we offer our children the opportunity to grow as young people and encourage them to develop a closer relationship with God in an atmosphere of mutual love and respect.

Botwell House is a school we are all proud of. Our school is a vibrant, positive place that provides a safe and welcoming environment in which to learn. Our children enjoy coming to school , are motivated by their successes and become confident, reliable citizens.

As a Catholic School, we seek to live out the values of Jesus Christ. We promote these values by our words and deeds recognising that every child is unique and is created in the image of God. Jesus told us to "Love one another as I have loved you" and this reminds us every day to go the extra mile for the children within our care.

We are fortunate to have such a talented and hard working staff who provide an outstanding quality of care and encourage all our children to aspire to achieve excellent results. Staff encourage the children to engage in our wide and varied curriculum and provide an atmosphere where children can fully develop their talents and learn new skills. As a school we offer a wide range of sporting and musical opportunities. We have an amazing school choir and the biggest school orchestra in the borough! We also have a large trophy cabinet which reflects our sporting achievements.

We aim to cultivate first class partnerships with parents and carers, governors and the local community who play such an important part in the life of our thriving school.

Our School Targets Is To achieve outstanding attainment. We Want all our Children to achieve excellent results.We improve the proportion of excellent learning and teaching. We want our learning and teaching to be outstanding. We continue to share exceptional practice. We want all our children to work collaboratively, show good listening and show care, courtesy and concern to all so that our teachers can do their best. To cultivate first class partnerships. We want all staff, parents, children and governors and local businesses to work well together, showing respect for all.

At Botwell House we offer an exciting, engaging and varied curriculum to ensure your children are actively involved in their learning and progress. Religious Education and our Mission Statement underpin everything we do. The promotion of our children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is excellent and is reflected both across the curriculum, through behaviour and our excellent ethos.

During the year we organise a wide variety of visits, visitors, themed weeks and dress up/charity days. These enhance the learning outside of normal classroom practice and develop our Catholic mission of helping others. Our children thoroughly enjoy these events and participate with amazing enthusiasm. Our pupils are very imaginative, creative and reflective, developing a very good understanding of right and wrong. They develop and apply a wide range of social skills and respond positively to the many sporting, cultural and artistic opportunities that we provide.

Our talented staff work extremely hard to ensure there are rich learning experiences for all, which develop the core skills of English, Maths and Computing. Subject leaders ensure high quality resources are available to enrich the learning, teaching and progress of all our children.We support our parents through information meetings and we provide curriculum overviews and information at the beginning of each academic year. Workshops are also provided to enhance parental support for their children.