Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School

Our Lady of Lourdes is a Catholic Maintained primary school. The school aims to form a community composed of pupils, teachers, parents, management and other staff and seeks to live in harmony, guided by Christian values and recognising the dignity of each individual. The central purpose of the school community is to cater for the religious, moral, emotional, intellectual, physical and social needs of the pupils. The school is committed to:

• Handing on a love, knowledge and understanding of our Catholic religion and fostering in the pupils an awareness of the needs of others.
• Developing sensitive and caring attitudes; leading our children through education, encouragement, example and discipline to become confident, independent and responsible young people.
• Providing an effective education service - one that is planned and developed to the highest professional standards so that the pupils gain the maximum benefit from their experiences at the school.
• Helping the children to develop an understanding of their own culture and tradition and to foster tolerance by promoting respect for and understanding of others.

Integral to an effective system is the school’s behaviour policy, creating and sustaining a safe,purposeful, open and ordered working climate in the school. All members of the school community share a collective responsibility for promoting among children a sense of self-esteem and selfrespect,respect for others, self-discipline and responsibility.In Our Lady of Lourdes we have a discipline policy incorporating an agreed rewards and sanctions regime, which is understood and consistently applied throughout the school by everyone acting in a supervisory role.The aim of the discipline policy is to determine the boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. Overall the policy will:

• Promote self-discipline and proper regard for authority among the children
• Encourage good behaviour and respect for others and prevent all forms of bullying among the children
• Ensure children’s standard of behaviour is acceptable
• Regulate children’s conduct