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Mission Statement

A CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE

All pupils follow a course of Religious Education, which is designed to enhance their faith journey.  Our pupils are encouraged to take an active part in assemblies and liturgies.  On a daily basis each form group begins the day by praying together.

All pupils in Year 9 spend a day on retreat outside school and there are opportunities for other groups to go on retreat throughout the year.

On Holy Days of Obligation, Mass is always celebrated in school at the start of the day.  This is in addition to our weekly lunchtime Mass.

MISSION STATEMENT

Inspired by the teaching and example of Christ, St Cuthbert's is a Roman Catholic High School, which provides comprehensive education for 11 - 19 year olds.

The School serves, and is part of, the Catholic community of Rochdale and is a sign of God's presence in the world. All members of the community are invited to give witness to Christ through teaching, celebration and inspiration of the Gospel message.

The school recognises and welcomes the contribution of everyone and seeks to enable each individual to achieve their full potential. It strives to ensure that Gospel values, especially justice and peace, are in evidence in the daily life and work of the school.

As part of the mission of the Church, it is a community that gives witness to the School motto:

"In Christ we serve"

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

  •  To develop the School as a Catholic community wherein the spirit of care and concern for the individual embraces all who belong to the school, while at the same time reaching out to share this concern with the wider Community.

  • To invite pupils to develop within themselves a true spirit of Christianity and to make this explicit to all by offering them "a knowledge and understanding of the content of the Faith, an experience of a Christian caring community and the experience of a living liturgy" (Easter People).

  • To demand of the pupils the highest possible standards in all they undertake, while supporting them in the fulfillment of their spiritual, personal, academic and social potential.

  • To develop lively and enquiring minds by fostering the skills and enjoyment of the learning experience, thus encouraging all pupils to take advantage of the educational opportunities presented throughout life.

  • To offer a broad education in terms of knowledge, skills, concepts and attitudes to which all pupils have equal access.

  • To enable pupils to experience responsibility and to exercise judgments based on a reasoned set of values and attitudes.

It is hoped that every aspect of school life will support and reflect these aims, and that in particular, the life of the school will find definition in the Good News of the Gospel and in the example of the teaching of Jesus Christ, so that the Christian spirit will be pervasive and obvious and will be reflected in all relationships within the school.

The general aims embrace all aspects of school life and while accepting the division as artificial, further expression is given to these in terms of pastoral and curricular objectives. Thus, although in no way exhaustive, the following must be evidence of the work of the school, both formal and informal and are written at the beginning of pastoral and Curricular Policies.