Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School

The school is a Catholic Voluntary Aided School for boys and girls in the 3 to 11 age range. The school is comprised of a Foundation Stage with 52 part time places and two full time Reception classes, four Key Stage One classes and six Key Stage Two classes. The main catchment area is the parish of Our Lady Immaculate, Everton, Liverpool 5.

Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School is based in Everton near Liverpool city centre. We want our school to be very much at the heart of the community we serve and we look to work with parents, carers and the local community to ensure we not only have a positive impact on the lives of our children but also on anyone who may come into contact with our school for whatever reason. We do all this while recognising Christ’s love in every person.

Our mission is to develop a Christ centred community which recognises Christ’s love in every person and reflects the gospel values in everything that we do.

We are a Catholic school, one family living and learning together in faith. Provide a safe, caring environment where we share strong, positive relationships and have respect for ourselves and others. To achieve this aim the school will:

• Ensure that the school provides a safe and secure environment for all
• Through our own example, enhance pupils self-esteem, self-respect and respect for others
• Deliver a strong PHSE curriculum to support the children’s social and emotional development
• Work with the children and school community to embed the school code of conduct
• Provide the children with opportunities to express feelings, thoughts and concerns and develop strategies to resolve issues positively and respectfully
• Invite parents into school to share in celebrations, assemblies and social events

Educate our children within our Catholic faith, fostering an awareness of oneself as a member of a family, school, parish and our wider community. To achieve this aim the school will:

• Value all children as unique
• Celebrate together an act of collective worship each day and develop prayer life of the school enabling the children to pray in a variety of ways
• Monitor and assess pupils progress within religious education, to ensure effective learning and celebrate growth and achievement and to enable further progress
• Offer equal opportunities to all and promote racial tolerance
• Be involved in the initiatives and developments of the local community
• Work with all outside agencies to promote the health, emotional, environmental and social needs of our community
• Promote understanding of citizenship, religious diversity and equality
• Take part in charitable events and fundraising so that the children understand that we can all contribute positively and help others around us
• Foster strong links and positive relationships with our sister primary schools (Holy Cross and Trinity) and with Notre Dame Catholic College, our feeder secondary school

Raise standards and set high expectations for the personal development and academic potential of all. Encourage and support each child so that they develop the skills to become an integral member of our society today and in the future.

Our core curriculum is made up of English and maths, taught primarily in the mornings. The English curriculum consists of reading, writing and GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling). In order to assess our pupils, writing at distance is taught through science and our foundation subjects, using English based units in other areas of the curriculum. English lessons are planned through the School Improvement Liverpool plans.

In maths, children cover: number, measure, geometry and statistic units, focusing on children’s fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills. Maths is also woven into foundation subjects through science and the learning challenge curriculum. Maths lessons are taught through School Improvement Liverpool and MathsHUBS White Rose Mastery plans.

The curriculum we teach is built around the National Curriculum programmes of study and aims. As a Catholic school, we also teach the ‘Come and See’ Religious Education Programme as well as SRE programme ‘Journey of Love’.

Our Lady Immaculate Early Years vision is to provide the very best care and education to every child through quality interactions and play-based experiences, which build upon children’s interests and curiosity of the world around them. We are committed to ensuring full coverage of the EYFS Curriculum 2014 as well as acting upon current research into effective Early Years pedagogy when planning purposeful, first-hand experiences and opportunities. We enable children to be active, independent learners by providing a safe, stimulating and exciting indoor and outdoor learning environment, in which children are encouraged and supported to develop critical thinking skills in order to achieve their maximum potential.

Our Early Years setting provides children with a stimulating indoor and outdoor environment in which children are given opportunities to express themselves, apply new skills, set own challenges and manage own risks through play, exploration and investigation. Children’s individuality, preferred learning style and personality is nurtured and developed through child initiated and planned play activities which are supported effective teaching strategies including shared sustained thinking techniques and mind friendly leaning. Our environment enables children to learn about themselves and the world around them, they are given opportunities to develop confidence, make friends, manage their feelings and behaviour and therefore develop crucial personal, social and emotional skills.