“I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”
Philippians 4:13

 

Our Mission:

 Growing together, achieving together,
with Christ at our centre

Mission Rationale

Our Lady’s High School is a Roman Catholic Secondary school. Our patroness, Mary, is the role model for our community, through her we come to know her Son better leading us to embrace the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and to serve the needs of our community.

Our Lady’s High School is an inclusive school open and welcome to all. Fundamental to this is the belief that all are created in the ‘Image and Likeness of God’ (Genesis 1:26). Members of this community are not seen as labels but instead are afforded the dignity and respect of being a child of God. All of our young people will be supported to recognise and meet their potential.

Our mission is to develop and help our pupils on their life long journey to become engaged in society, involved in their learning and to recognise that they are the citizens of today – not just the citizens of tomorrow. We want our pupils to learn from their life experiences, both good and bad, and to foster a ‘Growth Mindset’.

Our mission is to grow in knowledge of God and of one another, to nurture the unique and intrinsic value of each person recognising that everyone is different and with these differences we all play a part in building the body of our school community.

Everyone is welcome and we will cherish each person’s individuality and each person’s gifts and potential.

 

Our Lady’s High School Core Values

 Promote the Common Good

We use our God given talents to support the vulnerable in our community: locally, nationally and globally

We will celebrate the strengths already present in our community

 

Foster Relationships

We will build upon existing relationships respecting the differences in others

We will promote new relationships without bias and recognise the equal rights of the individual

We will respect: one another, those in our community and ourselves

 

Leaders of Faith

Our guide will be Christ and through his teachings we will come to realise our Mission

We look to Mary our patroness and our House Saints for inspiration as models of faith

We will understand and promote our faith as a witness to others

 

Love in all things

Our actions should be selfless and with a focus on service to others

We will trust in one another

We will demonstrate our integrity with the compassion we show unto others

 

Our Lady’s High School Aims

To embed the Catholic faith across all aspects of the school community, allowing opportunities for faith into action.

To foster a community where everyone’s values, views and diversity are respected in a supportive and positively challenging environment.

To provide the highest possible quality of learning and teaching where we foster high aspirations and determination in our students, and encourage them to be high achievers in all aspects of their learning.

To build a sense of achievement where pupils will learn the lifelong skills to help them both now and for the future, to assist with the transition to an appropriate and positive destination.

To help our pupils realise the dignity of work, that work is integral to our human nature and should be for the benefit of all, not the few.

To recognise and promote the talents of all our pupils and provide a curriculum that meets the needs of all our learners.

To promote and sustain the wellbeing of all members of our community.