Guardian Angels Catholic Primary School

Our aim is to give you an insight into our school community and provide you with any information you may need to help your child get the most out of their time with us. As a small school we pride ourselves on knowing each child and try to create a challenging, stimulating and creative environment where our enthusiastic staff help pupils develop lifetime skills for learning, tailored to their individual needs.

Partnerships with our parents and the wider community are important to us, we encourage our parents to become part of our school community, as we believe that a strong partnership between home and school is vital if your child is to become successful and fulfil their God given talents.

At Guardian Angels Primary School, our children work to the very best of their ability to achieve excellence across the curriculum, in order to reach their full potential. Within our faith community, we nurture qualities of honesty, respect, forgiveness, love and patience. Through this, children come to know that they matter and are valued. They become secure in the knowledge that they are guided and protected by God and their Guardian Angels.

Guardian Angels School seek to provide each pupil with a secure environment in which to learn; one which they experience care and mutual respect, where they come to know God’s love for each of them.

We acknowledge that our school is part of a wider community, involving in particular the homes from which our pupils come and the parish to which we belong. We wish to develop strong links between home, school and the parish. All our actions and relationships within the school community are underpinned with prayer.

Through the national curriculum the school aims are to:

• Build on children’s strengths.
• Provide opportunities for independent and collaborative work.
• Equip children with essential learning skills of English, Maths and Information Technology.
• Contribute to the development of children’s' sense of identity through knowledge and understanding of the spiritual, moral and cultural heritage of Britain's diverse society and of the local, national, European, Commonwealth and global dimensions of their lives.
• Encourage children to appreciate and celebrate human aspirations and achievements in aesthetic, scientific, technological and social fields.
• Help children develop principles in distinguishing between right and wrong, teaching them the value of respect for themselves, others and their environment.
• Promote equal opportunities and enable children to challenge all forms of discrimination and stereotyping.
• Enable children to respond positively to opportunities, challenges and responsibilities.
• Prepare them to take the next steps in their education and equip them to make informed choices.

We are working towards a more creative curriculum where we are trying to make better links with individual subjects so learning is more meaningful for our pupils. We want our pupils to continue to be motivated and enthusiastic about learning so we plan tasks that are interesting and enjoyable. This includes planning tasks outside the classroom as well as trips and visits.

We set high expectations for all our pupils and expect them to try their best always with the challenging tasks we plan for them. For specific subjects, we have support from specialist teachers to ensure we meet the needs of our gifted and talented pupils.

The School has a structured programme for identifying children with Special Educational Needs and helping them to develop to their full potential. Under the guidance of the Headteacher and with support from the LEA’s specialists. Children’s' needs are kept under continual review to ensure that they receive the most appropriate level of assistance. Parents are involved in review meetings and are consulted.

The school's policy is to admit children with disabilities e.g., impaired sight, hearing or mobility. We are unable to admit physically disabled children who require wheelchair access above ground floor level because of the constraints of the building.