St Augustine's RC High School

St. Augustine’s is a Catholic High School. As such we aim to model ourselves on Christ. The challenge to us is to care for ourselves, for one another and especially for those less fortunate than ourselves. St. Augustine’s has a well deserved reputation as a caring Christian community.

St. Augustine’s offers so many opportunities to its students. Its curriculum is broad, forward looking and flexible. It is delivered by a team of dedicated and energetic professionals. The school is committed to ensuring that every student achieves his or her full potential. Our supported study programmes and extra-curricular activities offer something for everyone too.

We aim to work together to build an inclusive community based on the Christian values of love, forgiveness and justice. We recognise, respect and celebrate the wonderful religious, cultural and social diversity we have within our school community. We actively foster good relations between diverse groups and individuals to help eliminate disadvantage, prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender change, looked-after status, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, sexual orientation and socio-economic status, or any combination of these. St Augustine’s RC High School should be a place where all members of our learning community feel safe, secure, healthy and happy.

St. Augustine’s is justifiably proud of the community spirit which the school has. We are committed to promoting:

• Teamwork and Co-Operation
• Respect for Self and Others
• Consideration for Others
• Tolerance
• Truthfulness and Honesty

St. Augustine’s has one main aim. It is “to provide for its students education of an assured quality within a caring, Christian community in which all individuals are given the opportunity to develop their full potential.”

We have to be sure we focus on our main aim. To this end have developed more specific aims. St. Augustine’s High School is committed  to ensuring that:

• We prepare students for the challenges, responsibilities and opportunities of adult life
• We have high expectations for the continuous rise in attainment of all our students
• We provide learning and teaching opportunities of the highest quality
• We provide a wide variety and a high level of support for all our members
• We nurture a Christian community through partnership of school, home, business, Church and friends
• We secure and allocate resources for the delivery of learning and teaching opportunities of the highest quality
• We improve continuously in all aspects of our work through effective Continuing Professional Development

At St Augustine’s we encourage our students to become responsible citizens.This includes showing care for the school’s environment and the wider community.  We are a school to be proud of and we want our pupils to contribute to improving the school environment by putting their rubbish in one of the many bins provided throughout the grounds.

St Augustine’s is also working in joint partnership with the West Neighbourhood team of Environmental Wardens and the Neighbourhood Action Unit (Police) to tackle and significantly reduce the amount of litter being dropped in ands around the school area.  This partnership has involved carrying out surveys to gain the views of school pupils, local residents and businesses and has also involved visits to the school on parents’ evenings.  To help change students attitudes towards dropping litter, educational workshops are being piloted for S1 pupils.  We hope to maintain these strong links with the community in the future.