We welcome you and your child to St. Cecilia’s Catholic Junior School. Welcome a partnership between home school and parish. We are determined, to ensure that all our children, irrespective of background or ability will have the best opportunity to fully develop their talents and enable them to become well-rounded individuals, with the key skills to meet future challenges.
We aim to nurture happy, confident children with enquiring minds, who learn to succeed and contribute to their class school, and the wider community. We have high expectations of every child and strive to achieve high standards in all we do. We aim to provide a broad-based, lively, creative curriculum to challenge and motivate our pupils and enable them to participate in a range of high-quality learning opportunities.
The school’s excellent facilities enhance the quality of the children’s education. We take pride in the building which is maintained to a high standard. During their years here we hope they will enjoy the stimulating and caring environment we create and that their true potential, both socially and academically, is reached.
Our greatest resource is we work tirelessly to provide the best teaching and learning experience for each child. Together we can make our school a safe, happy, and caring environment where every child is valued and listened to and where together we strive to realize our hopes and expectations for all children.
We place a high value on establishing close links between home and school so that we can effectively work together to achieve the very best for your child.
Our vision is to create a nurturing school community where children succeed and are proud of their achievements. Rooted in gospel values St Cecilia’s Catholic School Community lives together, learns together, and loves together.
At St Cecilia’s Junior School we believe that all children are precious and we strive to ensure every child has a truly positive experience whilst at this school. We believe that our curriculum must be shaped around the needs of each child, be broad, and be devised to equip the children to strive forward and make a difference in the world. We want our children to be inquisitive and to come to school with a hunger for learning. We deliver a learning challenge curriculum, this is not simply a list of specific topics to cover, but it is a way of planning and delivering lessons that capture the interests of the children and make the learning relevant to them, whilst also meeting the National Curriculum requirements.
We have used a topic-based approach to the curriculum for many years this involves linking some subject areas through a common topic or project, designed to ensure the children are interested in purposeful learning, allowing the children to take more ownership of their learning and to develop independence and confidence. The challenge for our many able and gifted children is ideally facilitated by this approach and it also provides an excellent platform as we do our utmost to ensure our SEND and Pupil Premium children are also given every chance to achieve.
The Curriculum at our school is relevant to the needs of our pupils and our locality whilst being flexible and accessible for our mobile population. Through our bespoke design, subjects are linked together within a learning challenge where there are clear, relevant, and strong reasons for doing so, other subjects are taught discretely.
Across all curriculum areas children have purposeful opportunities to use and apply their core skills (maths, reading, and writing) to ensure that, through a wide range of activities, children are progressing in their skills and understanding and extending their subject knowledge.
At St. Cecilia’s Junior School we believe that the curriculum should be alive. The children must have a voice to say what they enjoy most and what they need to learn. Here’s to a rigorous, lively, and enjoyable curriculum that is fun to learn and great to teach.
