Mission Statement, Vision and Intent 

Mission Statement: 

At the heart of our Catholic faith, we pursue the truth and strive for excellence. The more we recognise and appreciate the beauty and goodness in ourselves and others, the more we come to recognise God. At St Augustine’s School, we share the Light of Christ with each other and feel a sense of belonging to the family of the Church. Our school is a place of order, stability, tolerance and love, where we foster good relationships between home, school, parish, local and wider community. Together we will make this school a place where everyone is nurtured, supported and valued while being circled by God’s love.

When God’s love enters our hearts, we grow in wisdom and understanding.

Vision Statement:

At St. Augustine’s we aim to live our lives under the motto of our Patron Saint, Tolle Lege (pick up and read). We encourage our children to be lifelong learners and provide them with opportunities to be:  

• Independent  
• Resilient  
• Successful  
• Self-motivated

We believe that every pupil at St. Augustine’s school can achieve high standards in a safe, happy and welcoming environment.  Good relationships between the children, staff, parents and governors provide a positive environment that enables deep and new opportunities for learning.  We provide opportunities for pupils to develop academically, spiritually and creatively.  We have clear and consistent expectations of behaviour centered around strong moral values of our faith and a zero tolerance of bullying. We promote and celebrate all our successes in either academia or in a more creative subject such as sport, dance, music or drama.

 “Pray as though everything depended on God.  Work as though everything depended on you.”

(St. Augustine) 

School Intent:

At St. Augustine’s we intend:

• For our children to be excellent communicators, and to develop the strong communication skills necessary for success in future learning.
• To encourage creativity in all aspects of school life, ensuring all the children are given opportunities to develop their God given talents.
• To teach the children to respect themselves, in the way that God has made them, and respect others, in the way that Jesus lived his life.  
• For the children to have a greater understanding and be inclusive of people of different faiths, race and gender in this diverse community and in the wider world.
• To have high aspirations for all children, for them to achieve the best that they can and encourage them to apply themselves and take risks in a variety of situations of school life.
• To provide enriched educational opportunities to all pupils and support them in preparing themselves for the next stage in their lifelong learning journey.   

Implementation:

Our mission statement and school vision enables the school to focus on the safety, happiness and learning of our children. We aim to provide a deep understanding of all areas of the curriculum to enable our children to have the best opportunities in later life.  

The school basis it’s teaching on the National Curriculum and the Religious Education Curriculum Directory provided to us.  To enable the school to strive for a continued strive for success we ensure that:

• The teachers have expert subject knowledge of the subjects and are confident in what they teach.
• The teachers enable the children to have full range of resources and they have the key concepts at their fingertips – in the form of knowledge organisers, IT devices.  
• The curriculum is mapped across all year groups in a way to enable pupils learn in a systematic way and cover the key concepts in various years and abilities.
• The long term curriculum map ensures that children are being taught in an organised way and the children understand what they are being taught is relevant to their future lives.  
• As a school we monitor the progress of our children through formative and summative assessments. The teachers use meaningful and relevant marking, giving appropriate individual feedback to the children.  
• Enrichment opportunities are provided for all pupils to enable them to build upon and embed the knowledge they receive in class.  
• Visitors and visits are encouraged for all topics and areas of learning in our curriculum.  

Impact:

The school measures the impact of the learning of our children in many different ways:

• In class feedback enables the teachers to provide immediate feedback and provide areas for development for each child.
• Tracking and more formal methods of assessment enables the school to monitor the progress of all the children across the school, related to different areas of the curriculum. This enables the school to provide targeted intervention to specific pupils where necessary to meet their needs.  
• Reviews and assessment carried out by subject leaders in a number different of ways enables the staff to gather a picture of  
• End of term assessments are carried out by al year groups and these are marked by teachers to support their judgments which is primarily based on the work produced daily by the children.  
• Pupils achieve to their highest ability across all areas of the curriculum. 
• Pupils are ready to face the next challenge of their learning and can do so with realistic confidence in their own ability and know what they need to do to improve.
• Children can interact socially in a range of different situations with a range of different people showing respect to all.