This role in education is so important that only with difficulty can it be supplied where it is lacking. Parents are the ones who must create a family atmosphere animated by love and respect for God and man, in which the well-rounded personal and social education of children is fostered. Hence the family is the first school of the social virtues that every society needs."
- Declaration on Christian Education (Gravissimum Educationis), #3, Vatican Council II, 1965
The Church teaches that parents are the ‘first educators’ of their children. As Catholic educators, we cooperate and support you as parents and carers. This section of our website is designed to give you some of the practical information that you need to support your son’s education at St Cuthbert’s Catholic High School and beyond. If there is any information that you need that is not available on our website, please do not hesitate to contact the school office.
"It is particularly in the Christian family, enriched by the grace and office of the sacrament of matrimony, that children should be taught from their early years to have a knowledge of God according to the faith received in Baptism, to worship Him, and to love their neighbour. Here, too, they find their first experience of a wholesome human society and of the Church. Finally, it is through the family that they are gradually led to a companionship with their fellowmen and with the people of God. Let parents, then, recognise the inestimable importance a truly Christian family has for the life and progress of God’s own people.”
- Declaration on Christian Education (Gravissimum Educationis), #3, Vatican Council II, 1965