Our Lady’s School is a Voluntary Aided Catholic School established to support Catholic parents in their responsibility for the spiritual, academic, physical, moral, cultural and religious development of their children in accordance with the teachings of the Church.  

 

Religious Education at Our Lady’s School is underpinned by the following aims from Salford Diocese: 

  

1. To present engagingly a comprehensive content which is the basis of knowledge and understanding of the Catholic faith;  

 

2. To enable pupils continually to deepen their religious and theological understanding and be able to communicate this effectively;  

 

3. To present an authentic vision of the Church's moral and social teaching so that pupils can make a critique of the underlying trends in contemporary culture and society;  

 

4. To raise pupils' awareness of the faith and traditions of other religious communities in order to respect and understand them;  

 

5. To develop the critical faculties of pupils so that they can relate their Catholic faith to daily life;  

 

6. To stimulate pupils' imagination and provoke a desire for personal meaning as revealed in the truth of the Catholic faith;  

 

7. To enable pupils to relate the knowledge gained through Religious Education to their understanding of other subjects in the curriculum;  

 

8. To bring clarity to the relationship between faith and life, and between faith and culture. 

 

 

We offer pupils the experience to grow and develop in a loving community into mature Christians who live for the Father, in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit within the Sacraments of the Church.   Both through Religious Education and in the general life of the school, pupils are prepared to witness to moral and spiritual values in the wider world. Religious education is the “core of the core curriculum” in our Catholic school. Our mission ‘Learning and loving together, we grow with Jesus’ helps develop the whole child as an individual. 

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Our Mission Statement

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"learning and loving together;

we grow with Jesus"

  

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During September 2023 workshops with both staff and pupils, we revisited our Mission Statement and Core Values. This involved everyone in discussion, reflection and prayer about the values, Mission and Aims of our Catholic school. There was a calling to all to re-commit to our purpose and to work together to understand our roles and responsibilities as part of Our Lady’s.