St Helen's Catholic School

[EduCativ]

St Helen’s Catholic Primary School is a thriving school in the heart of Brixton. Our values and ethos are based on our aim to provide a high-quality education for your children rooted in Gospel values. We are a happy and enthusiastic community of learners who aim to provide a nurturing and stimulating environment in which each child can thrive and develop their interests and talents.

The aims of our school take account of the fact that our school is a catholic school. This is both a title and a mission. The title conveys that our roots are embedded in the teachings of Jesus. The mission conveys that by being a catholic school we are active in Jesus' teaching.

The distinctive nature of a catholic school is shown through five key areas. They are

• The search for excellence, as an integral part of the spiritual quest.
• The uniqueness of the individual, made in God’s image and loved by Him.
• The education of the whole person, based on the belief that the human and the divine are inseparable.
• The education of all, with the particular duty of care for the poor and the disadvantaged.
• Moral principles are put into practice within a Christian community.

The curriculum consists of all activities planned by this catholic school to promote the intellectual, personal aesthetic, religious, moral, social, and physical development of our pupils to prepare them for the opportunities and responsibilities of everyday life. The curriculum is central to the process of education and thus of learning. The curriculum must therefore be a planned program of learning experiences.

The aims of our curriculum are most likely to be met when the conditions for effective learning are created. Through careful planning and the deployment of available resources, we aim to:

• Equip children with the tools for learning, giving a high priority to numeracy, literacy, oracy, and investigation taught through a wide and practical range of experiences.
• Make learning purposeful, challenging, and pleasurable.
• Encourage children to be self-confident, self-disciplined, courteous, and cooperative.
• Develop in each child a positive self-image.
• Provide an emotionally secure environment.
• Recognize that activity and experience are the precursors of knowledge and skills.
• Encourage children to ask questions.
• Give children a sense of success.

View full school