St. Catherine's Catholic Primary School

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St Catherine’s is a Voluntary Aided Catholic mixed junior and infant school with a nursery unit the school is situated in the London Borough of Barnet. The school serves the parishes of Mary Immaculate and St Gregory’s, High Barnet and Mary Immaculate and St Peter’s, New Barnet, in the Archdiocese of Westminster. Our children come from varied backgrounds and cultures, creating a lively and rich learning community.
Our school will provide a happy, secure, and stimulating learning environment, where everyone will be inspired to be their best learning at St Catherine’s is an exciting and challenging experience. We offer excellent opportunities for individual self-development. Our pupils become independent learners provided with essential knowledge and key skills, as well as an appetite for discovering the world around them. Our exciting curriculum offers pupils the opportunity to be creative in their learning as well as developing important personal and social skills and broadening their interests. Our expert teachers are extremely dedicated and enthusiastic, providing a high standard of teaching across the curriculum. This is backed up by impressive resources and facilities. Lessons are rigorously planned and have a clear purpose. A variety of teaching approaches are used to suit our pupils.
At St. Catherine’s, we are committed to providing children of nursery and primary school ages with a child-centered learning environment where all children flourish socially, emotionally, academically, physically, and spiritually. Each child is encouraged to achieve their full potential and celebrate their uniqueness. At the heart of this is our strong caring ethos based on mutual respect and gospel values. The school actively promotes the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
We believe St Catherine’s is a distinctive inspiring and exciting place where children, parents, staff, governors, and our community work together. We provide the opportunity for pupils to achieve their potential, explore and develop the gift that they are given, and grow alongside others as children of God.
At St Catherine’s we work to ensure the very best outcomes for our children. We strive for excellence in all aspects of school life. First-class teaching is crucial to children achieving their best and at St Catherine’s our dedicated staff are enthusiastic, talented, and strongly committed to providing an outstanding education for the children. The children are prepared to be flexible, life-long learners, equipped to meet the challenges of our changing society. The positive and stimulating environment at St Catherine’s allows children to develop personal confidence, a strong feeling of self-worth, and excellence in all areas of learning. We will provide an environment for our pupils to develop their understanding of being known and loved by God and that He has a unique plan for their lives.
Our pupils are active learners. They are encouraged to discuss and debate issues in class and to question and review their learning. Above all, our pupils develop the skills and self-confidence to learn. The curriculum provides an ideal framework for this process, with a rich and stimulating range of pupil-driven topics.
Our children and their families tell us pupils are happy and feel safe. We encourage strong home-school links where communication is key. We operate an open-door policy where all members of our professional teaching and leadership team are available to discuss your child’s progress/welfare. We pride ourselves on the strong partnerships we have built with all members of our community.
We are very proud of the standards of education and pupil engagement at St Catherine’s and our children are a testament to that. We would encourage any prospective families to come and visit our school to witness pupils flourishing in this environment.

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