Our Lady Queen of Heaven RC School

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Prayer, worship, Liturgy, and the Gospel message are central to our daily lives. The value and importance of our Catholic faith are reflected in our attitudes, relationships, and charitable responses. Every person within our school community matters and has the opportunity to achieve their full potential and exceed their expectations. We aim to deliver a broad and rich curriculum, appropriate and accessible to all pupils.
As a school, we aim to develop a trusting and supportive environment in which everyone feels valued and appreciated.
By working closely with the home and parish we seek to prepare our pupils for their lives in the wider community. We help them develop as responsible and caring citizens, who can take ownership of their choices and actions in society as lifelong learners. In a caring and sharing environment, we offer friendship and welcome to all. We seek to journey together with Christ as his disciples, learning from him how to live well.
We are a school community within the community of the Roman Catholic Church. The church has the mission of helping to build God’s Kingdom. We play our part in this by being a community of education. We understand education to involve all the broad dimensions of human potential – academic, spiritual, social, physical, and emotional potential and through the provision of a broad and balanced curriculum to recognize and celebrate each person’s uniqueness. In our school community, we seek to live the Gospel Values - Faith, Hope, Love, Justice, Service, Forgiveness, Witness, Respect, etc. – all of which we understand as part of living like Christ in loving relationships with each other. As a Catholic school, we seek to form our pupils in the Catholic faith through Religious Education, the general life of the school, the prayer life, and liturgies of the community and service and witness. We aim to make prayer, worship, and liturgy a living experience for every member of the community. we seek to encourage good relationships between Home, School & Parish and with the wider local and world community.
In the Early Years, Foundation Stage children learn from their experiences and activities in enabling environments. The EYFS is made up of the three prime areas: Communication and Language, Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Development which underpin all aspects of the curriculum. The children also follow specific areas of study in Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design. Children participate in a wide range of activities, both inside and outside, and have the opportunity to follow their interests as well as work in small groups supported by adults. Some topics are set but they will often evolve into areas of particular interest to the children in the class.
The national curriculum provides pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens. It introduces pupils to the best that has been thought and said and helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.
The national curriculum is just one element in the education of every child. There is time and space in the school day and each week, term, and year to range beyond the national curriculum specifications. The national curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge around which teachers can develop exciting and stimulating lessons to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding, and skills as part of the wider school curriculum.
Pupils of compulsory school age in community and foundation schools, including community special schools and foundation special schools, and in voluntary aided and voluntary controlled schools, must follow the national curriculum. It is organized based on four key stages3 and twelve subjects, classified in legal terms score and ‘other foundation subjects.
The Secretary of State for Education is required to publish programs of study for each national curriculum subject, setting out the ‘matters, skills and processes to be taught at each key stage. Schools are free to choose how they organize their school day, as long as the content of the national curriculum programs of study is taught to all pupils.

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