Welcome to St. Patrick’s Catholic Primary School. St. Patrick’s is a voluntary aided Catholic school for boys and girls aged 3-11 and is maintained by Liverpool.
We deliver a broad and balanced curriculum. In addition to gaining skills across the National Curriculum, your child will grow in confidence, develop self-reliance, and an ability to articulate feelings and ideas. We attach great importance to the development of the children’s social skills and seek to enable them to build relationships with other children and adults and be sensitive to the feelings and needs of others.
Childhood is a very special time and we will do our best to make it as happy and productive as possible for your child. We will encourage your child to follow our school motto,’ Be the best that you can be’
At the heart of everything we think and do at St. Patrick’s are the Christian principles of peace, love, and understanding.
School Awards: AfPE, Healthy Schools Award, Healthy Schools Award, Liverpool Dyslexia Friendly Award, ArtsMark Award, ICT Mark, Basic Skills Quality Mark, International School Award, Investors in People Award, Liverpool Inclusion Charter Mark, Liverpool Counts Quality Mark, Liverpool Reading Quality Mark, Primary Science Quality Mark, Early Years Quality Mark, Wellbeing in the Workplace Award.
We strive to ensure our children are motivated and inspired to want to learn by providing a broad and balanced curriculum with sound, stimulating, cross-curricular links and skill-based learning, with an emphasis on progression.
To educate our children in the Catholic Faith using the ‘Come and See’ Catholic Syllabus. To encourage our pupils to live and act according to the gospel values. To promote a positive attitude towards learning, so that children enjoy coming to school, and acquire a solid basis for lifelong learning. To enable children to be creative and to develop their thinking. To help children understand the importance of truth and fairness so that they grow up committed to equal opportunities for all. To enable children to have respect for themselves, high self-esteem, and to be able to live and work cooperatively with others. At our school, we strongly promote self-respect for all in our school irrespective of race, creed, or gender. Care will be taken to ensure that resources do not present stereotypical images, rather role models from diverse backgrounds and cultures reflecting the multi-ethnic nature of our society.
In St. Patrick’s, our phonic teaching aims to ensure all children are fluent readers by the time they reach the end of phase 5 of the Letters and Sounds program (Year 1 Phonics KS1 Liverpool Plans). Children will be confident spellers, using segmenting and blending as their first approach to spelling.
We aim to ensure there is consistency across the school when we teach phonics and this is key to its success. We use Jolly Phonics to teach initial letter sounds and actions in Nursery and Reception and continue to use sound actions to encourage KS1 children to identify the appropriate graphemes and phonemes. We use Education City (In Foundation Stage and KS1) and Phonics Play (throughout the school) plus many games and activities to teach the application of phonics. Phonics is statutory and is taught daily (through 20-minute discrete sessions) to ensure children develop into confident readers and writers.
Children will be introduced to letters and sound through discrete Phonics lessons and the environment, which should be language rich – displays, squidgy letters, letter stamps, listening center, etc.
Children will be taught Phase Two of the Letters and Sounds program before moving onto Phase Three when reading books with words. Children should be able to read and spell most, if not all, high-frequency Phase Two words before moving onto Phase Three and then Phase Four towards the end of the year.
