Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School - Ofsted Report, Parent Reviews (2025)

We will support everyone in realising and reaching their greatest potential.
We promise to interact with people in an honest and just manner.
We shall acknowledge that every person was made in God's image.
We will provide everyone the chance to comprehend their beliefs and God.
With enthusiasm, excitement, and energy, we shall both study and teach.
We will respect each person as an individual and offer help to everybody.
We shall be a joyful group of people who embrace and rely on God's will.
In whatever that we do, we will be polite and civil.
We'll be aware of our obligations and connections to the larger community.
Service.
Catholic schools are essential to the diocese's work.
They are referred to in the pastoral strategy "Called to work in the vineyard of the Lord" from 2005.
The Pastoral Plan makes a significant commitment to community development.
Our Catholic schools have larger student populations than our parishes do.
Additionally, Catholic parents have a responsibility and a right to select the institutions and methods that, given their local conditions, will best advance their children's Catholic education ".
Assist each youngster in learning to the best of their ability.
Give young people the finest environment possible for worship and Christian action.
The education of our children and young people is a shared obligation since, as the saying goes, "it takes a village to raise a kid.""
Catholic schools are a prime example of where the Church is present.
These are equally as enthusiastic as other schools in shaping young people's culture and developing their humanity.
However, the unique role of the Catholic school is to foster a culture of freedom and charity grounded in the Gospel within the school community.
It enables young people to grow in that new life that has been given to them at baptism while still establishing their own personalities.
Thus, the Catholic school prepares its students to effectively contribute to the welfare of the human race and to work for the expansion of God's kingdom so that, through living an exemplary and apostolic life, they may be, as it were, a saving leaven in the community. This is done while taking into account the conditions of a progressing age.
Teachers should serve as living examples of the one Teacher, who is Christ, by living lives of charity toward one another and their students and by being motivated by an apostolic spirit.
Above all, they ought to cooperate closely with the parents ".
Education is, in a very special way, the concern of the Church, not only because the Church must be recognized as a human society capable of imparting education, but especially it has the duty of proclaiming the way of salvation to all men, of revealing the life of Christ to those who believe, and of assisting then with unremitting care so that they may be able to attain to the fullness of that life.
As a result, the Church has a duty to give its children an education that will enable them to live their entire lives in the spirit of Christ ".