Our Catholic Ethos
The Catholic Ethos at St Gerard's Catholic Primary & Nursery School
"St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery School is an outstanding school in providing Catholic Education."
"At St Gerard’s, all pupils fully embrace their Catholic faith and values. This permeates everything they do each day for their school community. One can feel the sense of strong community and love throughout each part of the school from the moment of arrival." (RE Inspection June 2023)
Our Christian faith lies at the heart of our ethos
At St Gerard's...
Our children are provided with a well-taught RE curriculum that allows them to acquire an excellent religious education. We promote Christian values and provide opportunities for children to develop an awareness of God's presence. The spiritual life of our school is enriched through reflection, prayer, worship and celebration. We promote learning and equality for all, as we strive to create independent, spiritual, life-long learners. We develop strong links between our school and the parish community, as well as working together to promote and safeguard the welfare of everyone in our school community.
With these underlying principles, children are on a journey of understanding the relationship between life and faith. As a Catholic school, we promote the Gospel values of love and forgiveness. We welcome and value everyone in our school, celebrating and valuing our differences, our uniqueness, and that we are all equally loved by God.
We aim to ensures that pupils are happy and excited about living and learning in a community full of difference and diversity. To ensure that our children are taught to live out these values, our teaching of RE, PSHE and RSHE is strong. We use the following programmes to teach about equality and diversity through the curriculum:
RE- To Know You More Clearly (EYFS, KS1, LKS2 and Y5) / Come and See (Y6)
RSHE- Journey in Love / Scarf Coram Life Education
PSHE- Scarf Coram Life Education / No Outsiders
Our staff say...
“It is always lovely to see that the majority of pupils lead the Catholic Life and Mission of our school. Children understand the core teachings and are developing their knowledge by acting out what we teach as a Catholic school.”
“Our core values of are demonstrated daily through school. KS1 children could talk in detail about them, when discussing our mission statement certificates in assembly.”
“Catholic life and mission is lived out throughout our school. Children are respectful of catholic life even if they are not from a catholic background or practice a different religion.”
