Psalm 23 - The Lord is My Shepherd

Psalm 23 and its key themes of the Lord being our shepherd - caring, guiding, serving and protecting - drives our curriculum. This and our core values of friendship, courage, creativity, respect, compassion and responsibility are embedded in all aspects of school life.

We explore 18 Christian values over a 3 year cycle. These values that we see taught and demonstrated by Jesus link with our British values, as well as principles covered in Well-being and Relationship lessons. Our vision and values underpin our behaviour policy and feed into our curriculum.

Our Christian values are taught through collective worship led by Mr. Johnston our head teacher, Reverend Kieran McKnight from St. John's Church in Houghton and by class teachers. We appoint two worship leaders from each class who help plan, lead and evaluate our collective worship and who help set up and look after their class reflection area.

Inclusive, Invitational & Inspiring

We endeavour to create a special time and place for Collective Worship that is inclusive to all, enabling all our children, staff and families of all faiths and no faith to participate in a way that is respectful and appropriate for them. We invite all to be involved and we give choices on how to respond in a way that is considerate of individual faiths and beliefs. Through our Collective Worship, we aim to inspire our whole school community to learn from the example of Jesus and to be the best people we can be, standing up for what is right and being advocates for change - within school, in our community of Houghton and Carlisle and for our planet Earth.