At St. Catherine’s, we are committed to providing children aged 2 years old to eleven years old with a child centered learning environment where they all 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 also teach children that they have a responsibility to care for others in society in their words and in their actions, instilling an understanding of Catholic Social Teaching.

St. Catherine’s was considered by Ofsted as outstanding in Personal Development and Behaviour and attitudes in June 2022. Our previous challenge partner reviews and current pupil achievement continue to reflect our commitment to high standards and expectations for all children.

Our children and their families tell us children are happy and feel safe. We encourage strong home school links where communication is key. We foster open relationships where parents are welcome to approach Senior Leaders on the playground before and after school to ask questions and address queries and we also encourage emails via the office to arrange appointments to discuss your child’s progress and wellbeing with their class teacher. We also have an active parent partnership group who meet with the SLT once every half term. We pride ourselves on the strong partnerships we have built with all members of our community.

Key features of our school are:

  • A creative, dynamic curriculum which is contextualised to meet the needs of all our children and engages them as participant learners
  • A new performing Arts Hub
  • Dynamic learning environments.
  • Exciting playground with a multi-use games area. (MUGA)
  • A trim trail for KS1 and KS2 and a climbing Frame for EYFS
  • 5 day a week Sports and PE Teacher
  • A Forest School, led by a 3 day a week Forest School Teacher including a 4  metre high tipi.
  • Music specialist teaching for 2 year olds to 11 year olds and orchestra and choir.
  • Language specialist teaching French for 2 year olds to 11 year olds
  • Two laptop trollies containing 62 new laptops and 2 iPad trollies containing 60 iPads. Each classroom has an interactive C-Touch for teaching and learning
  • Successful PHSE programme where all children are encouraged to support each other including a School Council, School Chaplains, Rights & Respecting Steering Group, House Captains and Caritas Ambassadors
  • Exciting and varied class visits, trips, residentials, workshops to support the curriculum.

As an extended school, we run a breakfast club and after-school club. We also offer clubs such as Football, Fencing, Karate, Nature Club, Coding Club, Cricket, Tag Rugby, Boxing, Archery, Cheer Leading, Dance, Golf and Archery.

Finally, it is the strong and committed team of staff, parents and governors which make our school the happy and successful place it is.

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 on one of our Parent Tours in the Autumn Term to witness children flourishing in this environment.

Maureen Kelly
Headteacher