St. Therese’s supports the development of the whole child through the adoption of the Jesuit Pupil Profile.
The Pupil Profile is composed of eight pairs of virtues that sum up what pupils, staff, parents and governors in our Catholic Schools should be living and how they should be learning, in keeping with St Ignatius Loyola’s own vision that we can show…
‘Improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good’.
Pupils at St. Therese’s are growing to be:
Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and 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 relations 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 use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience; and prophetic in the example they set to others.
Each half term the children focus on a new pair of virtues. In their classes the children and staff brainstorm what they believe are the actions and words of these virtues. During this time pupils will work in class and within liturgies to discuss what each virtue means and how we demonstrate it in our daily life.
It is our hope that we can support the children of St. Therese’s, in partnership with the home and the Parish, to show these qualities in their work and play and to grow in understanding of their faith and themselves through reflection, prayer, discussion, academic work and collective worship.
“What can we say the kingdom of God is like?
It is like a mustard seed which, at the time of its sowing in the soil, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet once it is sown, it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.”
Gospel of Mark 4:30-32