Our Lady's
Catholic Primary School
'Go shine in the world.'
Determination
Respect
Friendship
Inspiration
Excellence
Community
Integrity
Compassion
This means resolution, resolve, willpower. “Stand firm and you will save yourselves” (Luke 21:19)
This means regard highly, value, honour. “And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them” (Luke 6:31)
This means mutual trust and support. “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth” (1 John 3:18)
This means the process of being given passion and/or ideas for a task. “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13)
This means being outstanding or extremely good. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord” (Colossians 3:23-24)
This connects us with each other. “We who are many, are one body in Christ” (Romans 12:5)
This means having strong moral principles e.g. honesty, decency, fairness, equality; having pure and balanced moral character. Whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." (Philippians 4:8)
This means having a deep awareness and sympathy for another's suffering. When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things." (Mark 6:34)
Learning how to keep safe
At Our Lady’s, we teach our children to keep themselves safe by educating them to understand risks and make good choices. Our Personal, Social, Health and Citizenchip Education curriculum includes a weekly taught lesson for each class, visits and visitors on a range of topics, specific circle times in response to issues and assemblies. Our interactions with our children every day support them to make good choices. Pupils at Our Lady’s have regularly receive visits from the Community Police, Fire Brigade and Road Safety officers. We have worked with charities to provide workshops for our older pupils on anti-gang work, modern day slavery, knife crime, anti-radicalisation and county lines. Our Year 6 children also attend Camden’s Citizenship day which teaches the children how to keep safe on their way to and from school. Our curriculum supports pupils to make choices to live safe and healthy lives, to stay safe, to develop resilience and self-confidence, to respect each other and to make a positive contribution towards society. Pupils learn about online safety, personal safety, road safety, fire safety, first aid as well as how to make good choices regarding gangs, violence and knives. We have recently had a whole school Keeping Safe Week in which the whole school looked at –online safety, road safety, First Aid and ‘Keeping Myself Safe’. During pupil voice interviews, children are able to talk to us in lots of detail about ways they have learnt to keep themselves safe.
