St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School

St Swithun Wells' Catholic Primary School is a popular and oversubscribed one form entry Primary school in South Ruislip with a full time school based Nursery. Our school is committed to achieving excellence with a learning environment built upon the foundations of the gospel values. The excellent relationship we have with our parish, St Gregory's and our strong Catholic ethos is reflected in our school mission statement. We are proud of the caring, supportive and committed school community of staff, children, parents and governors of St Swithun Wells and we work in partnership to ensure that our children leave our school as well-rounded, determined, skilled and confident individuals.

• St Swithun Wells' is a Catholic School where we learn about our faith.
• At St Swithun Wells' Catholic School everyone is important. We all want to learn and do our best.
• At St Swithun Wells' Catholic School we celebrate everyone's skills, talents and achievements.
• At St Swithun Wells' we understand that we need to look after and care for our school and everybody in it.

The Governors and staff of St Swithun Wells’ Catholic Primary School are fully committed to safeguarding all of the children who belong to the school community. The school recognises its legal and moral duty to promote the well-being of children, protect them from harm, and respond to child abuse.

At St Swithun Wells, we value the uniqueness of all our pupils. In doing so, we ensure that we provide a nurturing, loving and inclusive environment. All our pupils are given the same opportunities to leave our school as resilient, confident and well-rounded individuals with a love for learning and the necessary skills and determination to succeed. Curriculum Foundations- what we are aiming for....

• A love of and for Reading embedded across the school where our pupils demonstrate their fluency and self-assurance, enabling them to confidently access all areas of the curriculum
• Our pupils to be able to effectively apply their knowledge and understanding of basic skills in Maths, Reading and Writing across all the subjects they learn
• All our pupils to make progress across all areas from individual starting points and ensure that they are appropriately challenged by the teaching they receive
• All our pupils to identify, use and build on their prior learning, benefit from a curriculum where sequencing of skills progression is in place across subjects, year groups and key stages
• Our pupils to be guided by the love of God and that this is embedded in all that they do and how we celebrate everyone’s skills, talents and achievements
• The values of appreciation, honesty, belief, resilience, tolerance and respect being at the heart of our school; the learning environment and the curriculum for learning
• An established culture where our pupils have a ‘growth mindset’ approach to what they do and how they learn to further support their independence and how they can apply knowledge gained
• Our pupils to be excited by what they learn and how they learn, broadening their life experiences through other opportunities to learn beyond the classroom (visits, trips etc.)