Welcome
We hope the following pages give you a flavour of our highly successful, welcoming, friendly school serving the children, and families, of the Warton and Freckleton area.
The success which we enjoy is the result of many things.
Firstly, even though we are a fully inclusive school and welcome children from a wide variety of faiths and backgrounds, we are a Catholic School and, as such, have a strong Christian ethos. When we developed our mission statement with the children they felt that it should be, that everyone at Holy Family School should do their best to ‘love and care for each other’. This simple statement encapsulates many of the things which our school develops in our pupils; good behaviour, respect, good manners, tolerance, inclusion, honesty, Gospel values.
At Holy Family we unashamedly put children first. Thus we have a safe, happy environment in which children can strive to do their best at everything they are given the opportunity to do. We listen carefully to our children and allow them to influence our curriculum and their learning as much as possible. We do our best to foster within each child a desire for learning and a desire to make the right choices.
We enjoy a very high level of support from parents. Children get on well at school when parents feel able to support school. At Holy Family we try to achieve this by welcoming parents to school as much as possible to things like assemblies, progress meetings, volunteer work, ‘stay and play’ times.
Finally, we are blessed with an extremely dedicated, hard working staff team who give above and beyond that which is required so that children are treated as individuals who matter; receive the best possible education; enjoy learning at school with a creative, exciting, challenging curriculum; and have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of sporting and extra-curricular activities.
This website can only give a hint of what Holy Family School has to offer – you really do need to visit school to experience the unique ‘Holy Family’ feeling. Please do not hesitate to contact the school to book a visit.
I look forward to meeting you soon.
Martin Gaughan
Headteacher
'Our job is to love and care for each other as Jesus taught us',
is the way we explain our Mission Statement to our pupils.
If you click the above link you can see the way that our mission statement is displayed around school. We have deliberately overlaid the rather wordy full mission statement (which you can see below) with the much simpler child friendly (many would argue, more effective and relevant) version, which children helped us to create.
This is to be achieved:
By the school working in partnership with parents in the education of their children in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church;
Through the prayer and faith of the pupils, staff, families and parish community;
By a dedicated and committed staff striving to provide the highest standards of education.
The following basic Christian principles underlie the school’s purpose:
All human beings are of equal value in the eyes of God and should command mutual respect in thought, word and deed;
An individual’s talents should be given every possible opportunity to be developed and shared;
Christian charity and fairness to one another should be reflected in the actions of all members of the school community.
For our pupils: 'Our job is to love and care for each other as Jesus taught us'
General Aims
1. To educate each child as a whole person, by stimulating and encouraging every child's many and diverse interests through the provision of a variety of experiences.
2. To help each child to acquire knowledge, skills and practical abilities.
3. To foster an appreciation of the arts and sciences, and of human achievements connected with these.
4. To help every child to want to use their knowledge and skills for their own enjoyment, to further their own interests, and to make a useful contribution to society.
5. To develop in every child a sense of self-respect, self-motivation and independence.
6. To help every child to recognise their place and their responsibilities to the society in which they live, to acquire tolerance and respect, and a set of values and beliefs.
