Start at the start Who are we at St Dominic's Catholic Primary?

·         We are a Catholic school first and foremost. We strive each day to action the gospel teachings. We see this as the most important aspect to our school. The children are taught what this looks like through value indicators and the teachers, parents and other significant adults in the children’s lives are there to role-model and support along the way.

·         We are a multi-cultural school with 30 cultural groups identified. We see this as an asset and work to engage as much cultural input as possible into the school. Most of our parents are both working so most of the way that our school engages in regards communication has changed to a web based approaches.

·         We see our school as very open-door and we regularly have parent information evenings and formal chances for our parents to ‘catch up’ with the teachers about their child’s learning.

·       We have a very proactive and supportive Board of Trustees. Working alongside these people is an active PTA and Pastoral care group. These groups support the school in a range of ways.

·       The use of technology will be a influencing factor in the direction of the school in the future e, not only in the hardware component but also in the way we teach and create our learning programmes for the children.

·      We have recently (this year) developed a new school curriculum so this will have an effect on the school’s direction in the coming 2 years.

·      Population growth in the area will also affect the school. Monitoring and future planning roll growth will become an important factor to the school over the next 3-5 years.