Our Vision & Values

Our Mission Statement

This statement combines the reflections of staff and students in 2024/25 

At St Augustine’s we aim to deliver a high-quality education that inspires students and staff to explore their unique gifts, realise their full potential, and contribute meaningfully to an ever-changing world.  

As a Catholic Lasallian College, we are dedicated to creating a safe, welcoming and inclusive community where every individual’s dignity is respected, valued, and supported.   

Guided by our faith and rooted in Gospel values, we believe that 'Together, we’re stronger.' (1)   

 (1) the title of our College song

Our Ambitions

We do not shrink from expecting that our alumni will change the world. Whether their contributions will be written up in the history books or known and acknowledged only by their families and friends, their goodness will matter.

We expect them to leave the college equipped with the St Augustine’s SPIRIT:

Self-Control:  effort, perseverance, resilience, responsibility, grit, self-worth

Positivity: enthusiasm, optimism, joy, can-do attitude, gratitude

Integrity:  honesty, forgiveness, faithfulness, humility, sincerity

Respect:  loving kindness, compassion, empathy, acceptance, courtesy

Initiative: curiosity, imagination, leadership, wisdom, creativity, resourcefulness

Teamwork: community spirit, generosity, helpfulness, peacemaker

We are a school for the real world. We believe that these strengths will equip them for employment and for a fulfilled adult life.

Our pastoral care for our students will be second to none: we know that their physical and emotional wellbeing is a precondition to their learning well. Our staff will go beyond teaching to accompany the students on their journey through the college, doing everything they can to support dynamic development and growth. When things go wrong we will respond with forgiveness and a restorative approach.

We will help to build in each student a foundation of spirituality that will survive the crowdedness of modern life.

Our academic curriculum will cover the full range of the intellectual virtues. It will balance creativity with academic rigour, and we will not compromise our academic aspiration for each student. We will introduce each one to the best that has been thought and said.  Our students’ performance in public exams will remain in the top bracket.

We will be among the best employers in the education world, ensuring that our staff are offered training in the most up to date teaching and learning research, and that their work-life balance is protected.

We will encourage our students to be “the best they can be”, whatever their talent, whether it be sheep shearing or philosophy.

Those who have special educational needs or physical disabilities will be full members of our community – and their teachers and peers will understand their difficulties as fully as possible.

We will value all kinds of diversity and ensure that the evils of prejudice on grounds of disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation are driven from the school.

We will provide a clean, safe and efficient physical environment to maximise the opportunity for learning.

Our students will learn and never forget compassion for the vulnerable in society. They will use their talents for the good of others in a world that needs healing through mutual love, the steadfast seeking of justice for the poor, sick and vulnerable, and the demonstration of mercy. They will have the courage to “proclaim the Gospel to all creation”, to the greater glory of God.

Our College Improvement Plan 2023-26