Values and Virtues

The values we promote in our school are the foundation of our school ethos and help us to live by the gospel values. 

These values and virtues are displayed in our school hall and the half-termly values and virtues are explored with children, including discussions about how they can demonstrate these.

Pupils at St Mary’s are growing to be:

Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; generous with their gifts, becoming men and women for others.

Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.

Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.

Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.

Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relationships between people and the world.

Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.

Curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better.

Intentional in the way they live and the resources of the earth, guided by conscience and prophetic in the example they set to others.