Blessed John Duckett School is a Catholic School and God’s love is at the centre of our community.
We experience prayer and worship together, share and recognise pupils’ understanding and deepening of the Christian faith.
By working together, we strive to meet the spiritual, pastoral and academic needs of our children and community. We demonstrate our love by caring for God’s world and the diverse people in it.
We aim for respect, fairness and justice in all we do.
"Strong Catholic values underpin the school’s work and a philosophy that every child does matter and each should do as well as they can. Pupils make a significant contribution to the community it serves"
- OFSTED
Our school is part of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle and, as such, we belong to the strong family of Catholic primary and secondary schools throughout the North East including those schools that are part of Bishop Hogarth Education Trust.
This is a very supportive network of schools with whom we share the same ethos.
The Trust has adopted the following vision and values to guide us in our mission and to underpin all that we do:
Our Vision
Our schools will be places of excellence – providing service and witness to children, their families and the wider Catholic community, adding value as a family of schools and enriching the learning and experience of all our young people so they may achieve their full potential.
The following virtues underpin everything the Trust and our Schools will do:
- Resilience
- Confidence
- Justice
- Compassion
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Self-belief
- Honesty
Our Trust is built around providing opportunities, academic, social and cultural, for pupils to develop their character through a focus on the Virtues, following the principles of Virtue Theory.
We are proud of our Catholic tradition and take very seriously our responsibility to nurture the Faith in our young people and to support them on their spiritual journey through life. We have the huge responsibility of helping to prepare our pupils for this life and their life to come.
British Values
At Blessed John Duckett, we are fully committed to living out our Gospel values, where we recognise that all people are valued regardless of beliefs, background or ethnic origin.
Indeed, through the teachings of the Church, through our curriculum and in our daily lives, we believe in and promote a sense of fairness, justice, tolerance, forgiveness, acceptance, and humility; we recognise the dignity of each human being, we are non-judgmental, show generosity of spirit and regard for our self and each other which teaches our pupils to know what it means to be a good citizen in Britain today.
Our Gospel values very much reflect our British values, and those defined by the Government as
- Democracy
- The rule of law
- Individual liberty
- Mutual respect
- Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs