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Mission & Philosophy

Mission

Our mission is to ensure that all students realize their full academic potential and can do so in a safe, loving and warm atmosphere. We strive to help students appreciate their uniqueness, develop Christian and moral values, learn service to others and the community, self-control, sportsmanship, leadership, cooperation, creativity and intellectual curiosity.

We strive to:

• Help students realize that they are created in the image and likeness of God.
• Help students appreciate their own uniqueness and to respect the individuality of others.
• Offer a varied curriculum to meet the achievement levels of all students and to recognize their different learning styles.
• Encourage students to find independence through self-discipline.
• Develop coordination, motor skills and general care and control of the body.
• Enhance the ability to affirm and respect individuality of others.

Saints Peter and Paul is a Catholic school but is open to persons of all faiths and beliefs. Religious instruction in the elementary school is both for sacramental preparation and also to cover the broad expanse of belief, worship, and morality in relationship to the student's typical experience at each grade level.

The Elementary School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The elementary student body numbers approximately 510 students ranging from Preschool to Grade 8.

Philosophy

We believe that the elementary years of school are of critical importance in a child's development. It is during these years that children become aware of their unique value as children of God, and that they begin to identify and develop their talents.

SSPP aims to facilitate the development of each child to his or her full potential and to assist them in the achievement of their personal goals. The school strives not only for the development of its students' intellectual abilities, but also for the formation of Christian ideals and values. It is through an awareness of these ideals that the school seeks to strengthen each child's individual beliefs in God.

Through the concepts of self-discipline, fairness and responsibility, the child not only looks inward but becomes conscious of his/her relationship with others.

SSPP has the responsibility in the following areas:

• Religious
  To help every student realize his or her unique value as a child of God, develop a God-centered personality, love and understand the Christian way of living while accepting others' differing beliefs.
  
  To foster the principles of true worship through daily prayer, reception of the sacraments and other para liturgical celebrations.

• Social
  To encourage the student to assimilate skills, knowledge, moral and social attitudes, all of which help to develop his/her personality, to enable them to take their place as active members of the community and support them in the search for truth.

• Educational
  To teach the basic skills of reading, language, mathematics and to provide a working knowledge of the social, physical and life sciences, while allowing opportunities for self expression in all artistic and academic areas.

• Physical
  Physical development occurs gradually as a child, becomes aware of, cares for and accepts his or her body as a creation of God.
  
  We must guide each child in this physical development by encouraging awareness, by enjoying their abilities and by respect for the individual physical abilities and limitations of others.
  
  The program of physical education proceeds sequentially to develop a student's awareness, self-control and basic coordination skills as well as social interaction in cooperative and competitive sports and activities