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Catholic Life

Catholic Schools Inspection

The Catholic Life of the school is outstanding.

What the school does well:

  • The school mission statement is lived out joyously in all aspects of school life.

  • Leaders give the highest regard to the well-being of all.

  • All staff are exemplary role models in the care and respect they show to one another and to those in their care.

  • Pupils are capable and confident in planning and leading liturgical prayer.

  • Pupils articulate their learning in religious education enthusiastically and competently.

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Religious Education

Religious education is at the heart of our school and we aim to teach all pupils here to understand, critically evaluate and enjoy the teachings of the Catholic faith. 

To do this, we use the ‘Come and See’ programme, which is a teaching programme based on the theological foundations of the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Catechism and the revised RE Curriculum Directory.  It includes the Catholic attainment levels.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses the search for meaning in life. God’s initiative in Revelation who comes to meet us and our response of faith. (cf. CCC26) This pattern guides the structure of the programme and informs the process of each topic, opened up through; Explore, Reveal and Respond.

RE Curriculum

For further information on our RE curriculum, please see the link below:

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Sacred Heart Mission

Sacred Heart Primary School was opened by the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1906. The Society was founded by Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat in France in 1800. Her faith was rooted in Jesus Christ and she had a deep desire to reveal to others the love of the Heart of Jesus, as it was a love which she herself experienced so powerfully. She chose to express this love through the service of education.

Sacred Heart Goals

The development of the Goals came about as a means of continuing the traditions of the Society, which were founded by Madeleine Sophie. The English network includes Sacred Heart Schools from the North and South of England, of which there are five. Each school has their own Goal's coordinator who works in collaboration with other Sacred Heart Schools to develop joint projects.

 

At the heart of these lie the Goals which embody the core values by which each school promotes and lives by. They guide us and identify us as belonging to a common family and they express what we are and what we stand for. Each year a goal is embedded into the life of the schools.


The goals are:

FAITH 
Encouraging pupils in our care to develop their own spirituality and to practise gospel values, which will include having an informed respect for people of other religious traditions.

BUILDING A COMMUNITY
Fostering relationships with each other, with staff, parents, parish and the wider community. Creating an atmosphere of mutual interaction where all are valued and where all involved both give and receive.

INTELLECT
Developing the potential of each pupil, enabling them to become questioning and reflective young people, who will use their knowledge to understand, interpret and interact with the world today.

PERSONAL GROWTH
Affirming the uniqueness and the worth of each pupil, providing opportunities for self development, personal formation and self knowledge as they journey towards becoming integrated and autonomous human beings.

SOCIAL AWARENESS
Giving pupils the knowledge, values, skills and opportunities to enable them to deal effectively with injustice, conflict and environmental issues and thus becoming agents of transformation.

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Child of the Sacred Heart Prayer

I am the child of The Sacred Heart,

Each day, dear Lord, I will love as you love,

Study and learn,

Help those who need me,

Be a friend to all,

And make wise choices,

St Madeleine Sophie hear our prayer.

Be humble, be simple and bring joy to others

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Life to the Full

We are delighted to announce that our school is participating in a brand new Relationship Education programme for Catholic primary schools, titled Life to the Full. You may hear your child coming home talking about this and we want to give you a brief overview of this new and ambitious programme.

As you may be aware, Relationship Education becomes statutory for all primary schools from September 2020. The Life to the Full programme is based on ‘A Model Catholic RSE Curriculum’ by the Catholic Education Service which was highlighted as a work of good practice by the Department of Education. Therefore, we have confidence that the programme will be fit for purpose in supporting the growth and development of your child.

 

Life to the Full is much more than a series of lessons. It is an entire platform of creative resources that will engage, inform and inspire our children and, indeed, you as parents. This includes interactive video content, story-based activities, employing a wide range of teaching tools, original worship music and an accompanying programme of classroom prayers.

 

In addition there will be an online parent platform so that you, as parent and carers, can engage with the teaching and deepen the experience for your child. To access the online parent platform please visit: www.tentenresources.co.uk/parent-portal

 

School Username: sacred-heart-ne4

School Password: soccer-world

 

You can access this website, click on Life to the Full for Primary schools and explore the programme further, or read on to find out more detail.

 

Life to the Full is intended to be partnership between home, school and church. We know that you already do a fantastic job and we see our new programme, Life to the Full, as a means to further develop, support and enrich the partnership between home, school and church so that your child is fully supported.

 

Programme Content

 The programme adopts a spiral curriculum approach so that as your child goes through the programme year-after-year, the learning will develop and grow, with each stage building on the last.

Module One: Created and Loved by God

Module One: Created and Loved by God explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are made in the image and likeness of God, it helps children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships.

 

In these sessions, we explore:

 

Key Stage One – that we are uniquely made by a loving God, that we have differences and similarities (including physical differences between boys and girls), key information about staying physically healthy, understanding feelings and emotions, including strong feelings such as anger, and the cycle of life from birth to old age.

 

Lower Key Stage Two – understanding differences, respecting our bodies, puberty and changing bodies (recommended for Year 4+), strategies to support emotional wellbeing including practicing thankfulness, and the development of pupils understanding of life before birth.

 

Upper Key Stage Two – appreciation of physical and emotional differences, a more complex understanding of physical changes in girl and boys bodies, body image, strong emotional feelings, the impact of the internet and social media on emotional well-being, a more nuanced and scientific understanding of life in the womb and how babies are made, and menstruation.

 

Module Two: Created to Love Others

Module Two: Created to Love Others explores the individual’s relationship with others. Building on the understanding that we have been created out of love and for love, this unit explores how we take this calling into our family, friendships and relationships, and teaches strategies for developing heathy relationships and keeping safe.

 

This religious understanding is then applied to real-world situations relevant to the age and stage of the children:

 

Key Stage One – In the Unit  ‘Personal Relationships’, children are taught to identify the Special People in their lives who they love and can trust, how to cope with various social situations and dilemmas, and the importance of saying sorry and forgiveness within relationships. In the Unit ‘Keeping Safe’, we explore the risks of being online by incorporating the ‘Smartie the Penguin’ resources from Childnet, the difference between good and bad secrets, and teaching on physical boundaries (incorporating the PANTS resource the NSPCC).

 

Lower Key Stage Two – The sessions here help children to develop a more complex appreciation of different  family structures and there are activities and strategies to help  them develop healthy relationships with family and friends;  here,  they are also taught simplified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques for managing thoughts, feelings and actions.

 

Once again, for the ‘Keeping Safe’ unit, there are some excellent NSPCC resources, as well as teaching on bullying and abuse through a series of animated stories.

 

Upper Key Stage Two – The sessions for UKS2 in the ‘Personal Relationships’ module aim to equip children with strategies for more complex experiences of relationships and conflict; this includes sessions that help children to identify and understand how to respond to spoken and unspoken pressure, the concept of consent and some practical demonstrations of this, and further teaching on how our thoughts and feelings have an impact on how we act.

 

Module Three: Created to Live in Community

Finally, Module Three: Created to Live in Community explores the individual’s relationship with the wider world.  Here we explore how human beings are relational by nature and are called to love others in the wider community through service, through dialogue and through working for the Common Good.

 

In the first Unit, Religious Understanding, the story sessions help children to develop a concept of the Trinity.

 

In subsequent sessions, we apply this religious understanding to real-world situations, such as the community we live in, and through exploring the work of charities which work for the Common Good.

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Mini Vinnies

The current Mini Vinnie team are made up of children from reception to Year 6.  The current Year 2 children began their Mini Vinnie journey when they started our school Nursery.  

 

We meet every Tuesday lunchtime to pray and make plans about how we can turn our concerns into action.

 

We keep a meeting notebook and liase with our peers in class, teachers and the school council to discuss and put into action our plans. 

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Our Parish Community

We belong to the parish community of St Roberts Church in Fenham. You are welcome to join us every Thursday at 10am to celebrate mass, each class will take turns to lead these masses. On the first Thursday of every month, the Parish mass will be celebrated in the school hall.

 

Please note Sunday mass is at, 11am all are welcome. 

 

Please find the weekly parish newsletter with many opportunities for you to attend within the community on their website. 

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