--- title: "School Mission" url: "https://st-maryshigh.lancs.sch.uk/spiritual-life/school-mission" school: "Brownedge St Mary’s Catholic High School" --- # School Mission ### Let Your Light Shine > If we love others, we live in the light. > > 1 John 2:10 Inspired by our Gospel Values we have a shared responsibility to - create an environment of welcome, love and respect for each member of our learning family. - develop the unique gifts and talents of all, striving for excellence in everything we do. - live out our commitment to love, service and justice in the local and global community. - nurture the journey of faith and discovery for all. - celebrate and reflect on the love of God which is at the heart of all we are. Brownedge St Mary’s is committed to ensure all children are safeguarded against all influences that might endanger their safety and wellbeing including its duty to prevent radicalisation of young minds with ideologies contrary to the Christian mission of the school and contrary to fundamental British Values. Based on this Mission Statement we are committed to: **Create an environment of welcome, love and respect for each member of our learning family. (WELCOME AND WELFARE)** This means we: - Maintain good or better **behaviour** in lessons and around the site so that all can thrive - Reduce low level disruption in lessons so that there is an environment of love and respect - Maintain high levels of **attendance and punctuality** - Provide a **safe** and **welcoming** physical and emotional environment for each member of our learning family. - Use all our intervention resources to **welcome, include** and change our students more than we exclude them - **Reward** more than we punish **Develop the unique gifts and talents of all, striving for excellence in everything we do. (WORD)** This means we: - Routinely **teach** well-differentiated lessons so all pupils make good or better progress no matter their starting points or the barriers they experience in life - **Mark and assess** well producing signposts to improvement and excellence - Create a **curriculum** which allows all to develop unique talents and to succeed - Ensure students strive for excellence in how they **present their work** - Provide **opportunities** out of the classroom for all pupils to grow and develop as young people **Live out our commitment to love, service and justice in the local and global community. (WITNESS)** This means we: - Lead by example, modelling love, service and justice in our words and actions - Encourage all our students to do the same and provide opportunities for them to **lead** across and beyond the school - Ensure our students **behave** well travelling to and from school - Lead all students to **participate** in activities which promote service and justice and which raise funds for those in need locally - Deepen our **partnership** with our community **Nurture the journey of faith and discovery for all (WORD)** This means we: - Recognise **respectfully** the spiritual diversity of our learning family - Promote a **culture of openness** to enquiry and to big questions **Celebrate and reflect on the love of God which is at the heart of all we are. (WORSHIP)** This means we: - Facilitate a respect towards prayer and acts of worship, encouraging all pupils to take part, to listen respectfully, to speak the prayers and on occasions to sing. ![Brownedge St Mary’s Catholic High School](https://files.schudio.com/brownedge-st-mary-s-catholic-high-school/images/logo/Brownedge-favicon_(2).png) ### Brownedge St Mary’s Catholic High School Station Road Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6PB 01772 339813 ### Useful Links - [Ofsted](https://st-maryshigh.lancs.sch.uk/our-school/inspection-reports) - [Calendar](https://st-maryshigh.lancs.sch.uk/calendar) - [Facilities ](https://st-maryshigh.lancs.sch.uk/about-us/facilities) - [Firefly](https://brownedge.fireflycloud.net/login/login.aspx?prelogin=https%3a%2f%2fbrownedge.fireflycloud.net%2f) ### Quick Links - [Edde](https://brownedge.parentportal.biz/) - [Outlook](https://outlook.office.com/mail/) - [OneDrive](https://8884623-my.sharepoint.com/) - [Microsoft Teams](https://teams.microsoft.com/) - [Library AccessIt](https://uk.accessit.online/brw11/#!dashboard) - [All calls to school are recorded](https://st-maryshigh.lancs.sch.uk/contact) ### Social Media - [Facebook](https://facebook.com/BrownedgeStMarys) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brownedgestmarys/) © Copyright 2020–2026 Brownedge St Mary’s Catholic High School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://st-maryshigh.lancs.sch.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)