{"id":987,"date":"2015-06-19T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/anntest3\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:13:52","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>The Aims of St. Augustine\u2019s Primary <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through the promotion of our Catholic ethos we aim to reflect our Christian morals and values such as honesty, integrity, compassion and tolerance in all that we do in St. Augustine\u2019s Primary School. We aim:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To provide a safe, secure, stimulating and inclusive learning environment where all members of our school community feel happy, safe and valued..<\/li>\n<li>To maintain high but realistic standards and expectations for our pupils, encouraging and supporting them to be confident individuals and take responsibility for their own learning. We also provide opportunities for them to celebrate their achievements.<\/li>\n<li>To foster a love of learning in both pupils and adults through the provision of a wide range of high quality learning experiences which are purposeful, challenging and enjoyable. These experiences will enable all pupils to become successful learners and thus will raise attainment and achievement.<\/li>\n<li>To work in partnership with parents, parish and the wider community to ensure that our pupils participate in a range of valuable experiences beyond the classroom and have regular opportunities to make a positive contribution to their local community.<\/li>\n<li>To foster Christian values of justice, respect, fairness, integrity, tolerance and compassion, equipping our pupils to serve as responsible citizens within our school and in the local and global community.<\/li>\n<li>To provide meaningful opportunities for pupils to develop their knowledge and understanding of the Catholic faith, actively participate in religious observance and respond positively to God\u2019s invitation of friendship.<\/li>\n<li>To further promote the four capacities of the Curriculum for Excellence to equip pupils with the life skills and attributes necessary for making an effective contribution to an ever changing society by encouraging and facilitating enterprise, creativity and ambition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><strong><em>Education<\/em><\/strong><em> is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><strong><em>(Saint Augustine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aims of St. Augustine\u2019s Primary Through the promotion of our Catholic ethos we aim to reflect our Christian morals and values such as honesty, integrity, compassion and tolerance in all that we do in St. Augustine\u2019s Primary School. We aim: To provide a safe, secure, stimulating and inclusive learning environment where all members of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-987","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/987\/revisions\/22045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/staugustines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}