Our School

As you enter our School, you know you are at St. Mary’s, due to our stunning rural location, where we care for the environment, and care for each other, as we are a ‘small school with a big heart’. Everyone is warmly welcomed at our school, you are greeted with humility, care and compassion and respect. We hold our school values in high esteem as they have come directly from the Gospel Values.

St. Mary’s will greet you on your arrival, as you will be lead through past the offices you are surrounded by our beautiful ‘small school with a big heart’ entrance, surrounded by Gospel Values. Our displays are linked to our RE curriculum, Catholic Life and Mission and each class displays a purposeful and interactive worship area. Our corridors are filled with Laudato Si, Care for our common home promises, along with our Season of Creation display.

As a school we are: ‘LIVING our lives as Jesus taught us, FEELING the Gospel Values, DREAMING of bright futures for all’

School Mission and Prayer

Our children contribute to the life and mission of the school. This develops their moral development through Catholic social teaching. We do this by living our life as Jesus taught us, feeling the Gospel Values and dreaming of bright futures for all. 

Our School Values

Care and Compassion, Respect, Resilience and Aspirations.

Our school values come from the Gospel values and are at the heart of how we live our lives. At St. Mary’s we are a ‘Small School with a Big Heart’. We work with local communities and charities to support others and follow the example of Jesus.

Catholic Life at St. Mary’s

We wish to foster our pupils’ relationship with God and with others in order to be capable of reaching their full potential as responsible and caring adults. We are involved in many local and global initiatives to live our lives and Jesus taught us to.

CAFOD Club

We work closely with CAFOD volunteers and use CAFOD resources to support our work as a Catholic school. We have a CAFOD Club, made up of children from Years 3-6 who work closely with Mr. Gilmour to support the charity work linking to local and wider communities. We learn about local CAFOD incentives working with children and families across the world. CAFOD Club allows children to take ownership and lead events across school, allowing them to learn and grow as children of God.

Fairtrade

The children at St. Mary’s have close links to the Garstang Fairtrade Steering Team, the UK’s first Fairtrade Town. A volunteer from the steering group regularly visits school to look at the latest actions and events that the children can get involved with. As part of our Live Simply Award, the children and staff are making an effort to buy more Fairtrade foods and be more aware of where our food comes from.

Live Simple Award

St. Mary’s is undertaking the LiveSimply Award, as part of a CAFOD project of putting our faith into action.

Bible Buddies

The older children love being Bible Buddies. Bible Buddies use the liturgical year to support planning for their child led activities. This half term, Noah’s Ark and Nativity are the key focuses. The children also linked prayers from ‘One Million Children Pray the Rosary’ to finish the weekly club with a prayer.