Curriculum

St. Patrick's is the only school in Northern Ireland to be awarded a prestigious grant from the "Friends of the Classics" to develop a Classics and Latin course which is offered to all our first year pupils.

St. Patrick's core principle is to create a safe and caring environment in which pupils, parents and staff are encouraged to strive for academic and personal excellence.

It is a statutory requirement of all schools to deliver the Northern Ireland curriculum.  Every school must teach the same subjects to the same rigour.  No one type of school possesses a unique 'academic ethos'; rather every school must teach exactly the same content.  What is different is the pedagogy, or methods of teaching, employed.

As an all inclusive school, we provide a flexible, broad, balanced yet relevant curriculum tailored to the individual needs, ability and aptitude of your child.

We value the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, and cherish the skills pupils develop as they seek to intemperate the world and society using the moral guidance provided by our Catholic ethos.

Our curricular programmes in Key Stages 3 and 4 are exciting and innovative and fully meet the present statutory requirements.  As an innovative school, St. Patrick's has successfully piloted the new curriculum as well as pupil profiling for the last four years.  We are an exemplar used by the Education Authority, Her Majesty's Inspectorate and the Examinations Boards, and have hosted visits from many other schools struggling with the challenges of the new curriculum.