Welcome!

On behalf of the Children, Parents, Staff and Board of Governors, we welcome you to St Martin de Porres Catholic Primary School.

We know your child will be well educated at St Martin’s, where there is a loving and happy atmosphere with staff dedicated to the children in their care.

At the heart of the Church’s very being is her mission to teach.  Pope Francis tells us what education is really about:

 “Education cannot be neutral. It is either positive or negative; either it enriches or it impoverishes; either it enables a person to grow or it lessens, even corrupts him. The mission of schools is to develop a sense of truth, of what is good and beautiful. And this occurs through a rich path made up of many ingredients. This is why there are so many subjects — because development is the result of different elements that act together and stimulate intelligence, knowledge, the emotions, the body, and so on.  True education enables us to love life and opens us to the fullness of life.” (May 10^th, 2014)

 In this way, we invite you to support and take an active part in our home-school-parish partnership, as we all share in the church’s ‘mission to teach’ and to open up our children to “the fullness of life”.

Thank you.         

Annette Barnaville and Hayley Gallagher 
Co-Head Teachers