Faithful to our Catholic mission of forming great men, St Cuthbert’s welcomes boys who wish to grow in faith, virtue, academic excellence, and character - boys who wish to become great men.
The admissions process at St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School is designed to ensure that all the boys who join the school are able to be happy, successful and secure within our unique academic, pastoral and spiritual community. As a state-funded academy we are bound by and follow the Department for Education Admissions Code and applications are facilitated by Newcastle City Council.
Let them be given also as they advance in years a positive and prudent sexual education. Moreover, they should be so trained to take their part in social life that properly instructed in the necessary and opportune skills they can become actively involved in various community organisations, open to discourse with others and willing to do their best to promote the common good.
- Gravissimum Educationis (extract from the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on Education)
St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School is a Catholic comprehensive academy in the trusteeship of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle and a member of the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust. It is part of the provision of Catholic education in this diocese. The school exists to provide a Catholic education for boys of the Catholic families and is conducted by the Local Governing Committee in accordance with its Trust Deed. Articles of Association and agreed Scheme of Delegation. Once it has met its historic and current obligations to children of the Catholic community, St Cuthbert’s welcomes those who support the distinctive religious ethos of the school.
All men of every race, condition and age, since they enjoy the dignity of a human being, have an inalienable right to an education that is in keeping with their ultimate goal,their ability, their sex and the culture and tradition of their country, and also in harmony with their fraternal association with other peoples in the fostering of true unity and peace on earth. For a true education aims at the formation of the human person in the pursuit of his ultimate end and of the good of the societies of which as man he is a member, and in whose obligations, as an adult, he will share. Therefore, children and young people must be helped, with the aid of the latest advances in psychology and the arts and science of teaching, to develop harmoniously their physical, moral and intellectual endowments so that they may gradually acquire a mature sense of responsibility in striving endlessly to form their own lives properly and in pursuing true freedom as they surmount the vicissitudes of life with courage and constancy.
- Gravissimum Educationis (extract from the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on Education)
Whenever there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to boys in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. It is essential that the Catholic character of the school’s education be fully supported by all families in the school.
The school, therefore, expects and requires that all parents/carers will give their full, unreserved and positive support for the aims and ethos of the school. This does not affect the right of an applicant who is not Catholic to apply for a place and be admitted to the school, in accordance with the published admission arrangements.
The Board of Trustees of the Bishop Bewick Catholic Education Trust is the admissions authority and has responsibility for admissions to this school.
The local authority undertakes the coordination of admission arrangements. The admission policy criteria will be dealt with on an equal preference basis. Boys who have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan where the school is named as the most appropriate educational setting for the boy will be admitted.