St Patrick's Catholic Primary School

School pride themselves on inclusive education, supporting every child regardless of level of need with various interventions for SEND

“At St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School, we pride ourselves on ensuring a very inclusive education for all children and will endeavour to support every child regardless of their level of need.”

Teachers use varied SEND support and interventions including visual support, differentiated activities, pre-teaching vocabulary, active learning, and ICT

“Teachers utilise various support and interventions for those children with SEND including visual support, differentiated / parallel activities and pre teaching vocabulary and information as well as active learning (such as role play and drama) and using ICT to record learning.”

The school states safeguarding of children is of paramount importance and takes precedence over other considerations.

“At St Patrick’s Primary School, the safeguarding of children is of paramount importance. All visitors should be aware that our procedures for ensuring this over-ride any other consideration.”

The school names a Designated Safeguarding Lead among its safeguarding team.

“H Jones (Designated Safeguarding Lead)”

Wide range of extra-curricular clubs from debating to crochet, plus visits and visitors to widen experiences

“The wide range of extra curricular clubs ranging from debating to crochet, visits and visitors help our children to widen their life experiences and raise aspirations.”

Students collaborated with Alder Hey Hospital heart surgeons and designers on a technology project for children with heart conditions

“Recent projects have involved children collaborating with Alder Hey Hospital working alongside heart surgeons, designers and parents to create new technology to support children with heart conditions.”

Core values based on Faith, Family, Respect, Resilience, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, Reflectiveness

“Faith – Family – Respect– Resilience – Resourcefulness – Responsibility – Reflectiveness”

School motto is 'Be the best that you can be' with emphasis on challenge for all children

“Our school motto is “Be the best that you can be” and we place a strong emphasis on challenge for all our children to enable them to learn and develop their skills to the best of their ability.”