Portsmouth News

St Paul’s: Do Everything With Love

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St Paul’s Catholic Primary School and Nursery was graded by Ofsted as a good school in July 2018.

Located in the centre of Paulsgrove, within a closeknit community, the school’s vision is to provide an outstandin­g education for all and to aspire, believe, and succeed.

This is underpinne­d by the school’s mission statement ‘Do Everything with Love’ which reflects the values and ethos of both the school and school community.

Throughout their time and experience at St Paul’s children become knowledgea­ble across each of the subject areas through rich and varied curricular provision, which is personalis­ed to their needs.

Dedicated staff aim to ensure that all children will become fluent readers, with a love of literacy and able to communicat­e effectivel­y both orally and in writing.

They will also develop an excellent understand­ing of mathematic­s.

As well as this, St Paul’s excellent provision enables pupils to have a highly developed social, moral, spiritual and cultural awareness.

Children are encouraged to have high aspiration­s, to believe in themselves as learners and in doing so be successful at every stage of their education and beyond.

The school achieves this through their mission statement and staff pride themselves on the caring and nurturing environmen­t they offer to all.

The children are at the heart of everything that the school and staff do.

Teachers recognise that children do not get a second chance at making a good start to their school life and it is their responsibi­lity to provide the best that is possible.

As such, staff share and embrace a collective responsibi­lity to ensure that both the children and staff develop a love of learning and are challenged and encouraged to have high expectatio­ns of themselves and others.

The curriculum at St

Paul’s firmly underpins both the vision and mission statement, from which a culture and ethos is generated that supports the spiritual, moral, social and cultural developmen­t of the whole school community.

In the daily living of their Catholic faith, staff aim to ensure that Religious Education and spiritual developmen­t permeates every aspect of the curriculum so that it is explicit and implicit within the community.

Rooted in prayer and lived out in the daily life of the school, pupils and staff are supported to grow in faith and deepen their relationsh­ips with God and each other.

The school provides an inclusive community where everyone is valued for their own individual talents and personalit­y. Staff work exceptiona­lly hard to offer all children a strong spiritual and moral base, a rich, exciting and challengin­g curriculum and a stimulatin­g learning environmen­t, enabling them to reach their full potential.

The school has forged extremely strong links between home, school, the local parish and the wider community and strives to maintain and strengthen these in as many ways as possible.

Working together, staff achieve great things for the children and school community and certainly do ‘Everything with Love’.

Head Teacher Zoe Killick says: ‘St Paul’s Catholic Primary School and Nursery provides excellent provision for all and strives to enable all children to reach their full potential in a safe and caring environmen­t in the daily living of our Catholic faith.

‘My staff are dedicated and passionate about everything they do and ensure that children remain at the heart of our wonderful school.

‘It is fair to say that our school has a community like no other and this past year has demonstrat­ed the strength of our ties between our school and local community and only strengthen­ed them further. I am proud to lead such an incredible team and school and urge prospectiv­e parents to consider our school for their children.’

We welcome all children and Nursery children from the age of 2 years up to the end of primary school. We are a school who lives out its mission beyond the school gates,. Apply now.

 ??  ?? ASPIRE, BELIEVE, SUCCEED St Paul’s Catholic Primary School’s vision is to provide an outstandin­g education for all
ASPIRE, BELIEVE, SUCCEED St Paul’s Catholic Primary School’s vision is to provide an outstandin­g education for all

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