Welcome

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you and your child to the St Thomas’ Catholic Primary school, which is part of the Painsley Catholic Academy.

Your child is the most precious thing in the world to you and choosing the right school for them (and for you as a family) can be a very difficult decision. The purpose of our website and prospectus is to provide you with the information to enable you to make the right decision. We will provide information around our vision, values and ethos, curriculum standards and provision, including the wide range and high quality opportunities available to every child at St Thomas’.

As a Catholic school our fundamental mission is to promote positive values and virtues within our school community in which every person is respected as an individual, made in the image of Christ.  We will foster the spiritual development of each and every child and adult within the school. The promotion of Gospel values and British values are reinforced through the curriculum daily. We are fortunate enough to celebrate a class mass every week in our parish church of St. Thomas’.

We understand that as a school we reach far and beyond the walls of our physical building. You at home are the first educators of your child and we aim to work with families and extended families to ensure a seamless relationship between home and school. We engage with home through parent’s evenings, our very active school Facebook page, regular reports home, celebration assemblies, coffee mornings and much more. Induction evenings for parents are held in school, regular consultation evenings involve pupils in sharing and discussing their own progress in learning.

We hope that you enjoy our website, Facebook page and prospectus and look forward to welcoming you into our school family.

Mrs Baxter