St Andrews RC Secondary School

In our Catholic school community, we teach that we are all created by God who has lovingly enriched our lives with unique talents and great potential for doing good in the world. In this context, the development and delivery of Curriculum for Excellence is focused on achieving our Vision of Excellence stated below

We will deliver

• The highest levels of attainment and achievement for every individual young person
• Positive aspirational destinations for all our young people as they leave school

We create a learning culture of the highest aspirations and motivation, where all young people are fully engaged and challenged. In every classroom, dynamic, varied and high ordered teaching and learning develops a thirst for learning in all our young people to ensure they achieve their potential to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors to society. In every learning area, our learners experience active and collaborative learning experiences; are given responsibility for their own learning and opportunities to co operate with others in that learning. Our staff ensure that all learning experiences are meaningful to the digital generation and develop skills and knowledge.

We create a safe, secure and happy environment in which young people will thrive, built on mutual respect and love. Our Catholic values and spirituality permeate every aspect of our school life and we pray together as a community. As a community, we reach out in charity, in compassion and in respect to others at a local, national and global level. Staff develop and nurture positive relationships founded on the highest expectations and standards of success, Our young people know our highest expectations and standards of success and make these their own. The voice of our young people is central to the on going improvement of our school.

Values

At St Andrew’s RC Secondary we do more than profess our values; we practise them. We are clear about what we hold important and we take care that our intentions, words and behaviours align with those beliefs.