St Ignatius Catholic Primary School

As a Catholic community we support both children and adults in living by the values we find in the Gospel. St Ignatius is a friendly, busy and happy environment where our children enjoy learning. Our children have wonderful talents and we do all we can to develop them in ambitious and exciting ways. We enjoy a close relationship with our parish and are proud of the pastoral care we offer our pupils.

Our mission is to be Safe in God’s hands we share our PEARL values, To live by our PEARL values. Safe in God's hands we will learn to respect, believe and achieve. We will strive for excellence in all we do. We will respect and support one another, embrace diversity and celebrate each other's talents and successes.

Our children work hard and we are proud of the results they achieve. Like them, we constantly strive to improve the quality of the education we offer and there two ways we monitor our progress against national targets. Our school is routinely inspected by OFSTED and by the Diocese of Westminster to see the progress we are making. These inspections help us to plan how we intend improving the quality of education we deliver to our children.

Our children sit tests in year two and year six. These Standard Attainment Tests (SATs) look at literacy and numeracy skills. They help us to compare how well our children our doing with other children across the country.

Our vision
‘God freely created us so that we might know, love and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever Our vision is of a rich and caring learning community guided by our Catholic faith and the Gospel values.

We value the diversity our children and families bring to our school community and celebrate the culturally and linguistically rich environment in which we learn together.

We celebrate the uniqueness of the individual and believe each child is created in the image and likeness of God and has a spiritual destiny to fulfill.

We embrace inclusivity to ensure our school community flourishes. Our vision is of happy safe life children who flourish and achieve highly.

Our Aims

• Nurture our children to be active and productive members of the Catholic community and wider world
• Equip our children to be independent, resilient and lifelong learners
• Set ambitious and challenging targets for our children to reach outcomes good academic
• Engage and inspire our children to be spirited, expressive, inquisitive learners
• Prepare our children for life in to secondary school and the world of employment with the knowledge and confidence they need to be successful.
• Build positive relationships, encouraging in our pupils a sense of self-respect, respect for others and for all life which is reflected in their conduct.