Bolton St Catherine’s Academy is an inclusive, purposeful and high achieving educational community for children and young people aged 3 to 19.  The Christian values of hope, valuing self and others, responsibility, truth, forgiveness and justice pervade all aspects of Academy life. The care, guidance and support for our children and young people are exceptional. Our specialisms are business and enterprise, leadership and mathematics and we will promote life-long learning.

Bolton Academy is co-located with Firwood School. Together, our ethos of service to others and strong moral purpose form the basis of our commitment to all children and young people and the local community. Our expectations are high.

Our children and young people are confident, motivated, creative, have a positive attitude and enjoy their learning. They are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives and contribute to the good of society.

Here at Bolton St Catherine's Academy we firmly believe that positive relationships formed with parents and the involvement of parents in academy life are vital to helping children to succeed.

"Parents and the home environment are the most important factor in shaping their children's well-being, achievement and prospects"
"Every Parent Matters" - DFES 2007

In order to improve what we do we have embarked upon the Leading Parent Partnership Award project (LPPA). The benefits are set out as follows:

● To improve pupil attendance, punctuality, behaviour and progress

● To increase parental participation and involvement

● To enhance parental support for children's learning

● To improve home/school communication

● To provide qualitative and quantitative evidence of improvement and success

We greatly value parental opinions and involvement. We strive to work in partnership so that your children achieve as much as they possibly can. We want to ensure that we are a listening institution. The term parent covers parents, carers, grandparents and other key family adults.

The project is being coordinated by Mrs D Schofield (pastoral coordinator - primary site) and Mr C Caldwell (Vice Principal).