Holy Rood Catholic Primary School is a busy and friendly school with lots going on. 

Holy Rood Catholic Primary is the original Catholic school of Swindon.  It was founded in 1859 in Regent Street and moved to the present building on Groundwell Road in 1899. The school was extended in the 1950's so that there is now room for two classes of 30 pupils for each year group.  In 2000/2001 a new classroom was built and the three original Victorian classrooms were made into two larger rooms.  The loft space above the remaining two Victorian classrooms was converted to two new spacious, bright and warm rooms.  The additional rooms enable us to teach the Reception children in three groups of twenty with the additional room being used for the children to work in small groups, enhancing levels of teaching and learning.   

Holy Rood was an all age school until 1958 which then became a primary school and in 1968 became an Infant school with the older children progressing to the Junior School at Upham Road.  In 2015 Holy Rood Infant and Holy Rood Junior schools were granted permission to expand into individual primary schools. The Junior school was renamed Holy Cross and we retained the original name of Holy Rood. Its classification is an Academy.

We are a Catholic school.  All the members of the school community support the all-encompassing Christian ethos of the school and our faith is an integral part of our life and work.  We seek to enjoy and explore the world around us and respond to God's wonderful creation in praise and thanksgiving.  We want each child to know God as our loving Father and respond to Him and everyone with love.  We pray and work for people in the wider world.

Each member of the school community and everyone we meet is valued and respected.  As we continue on our journey of faith we try to follow Jesus in sharing with and caring for one another.  We endeavour to act justly, to be peacemakers, to enable every member of the school community to be able to accept and give forgiveness.  We create a safe and secure environment in which everyone can be happy, healthy and able to work effectively, so that our children may achieve their full potential in all areas of the curriculum. 

We endeavour to ensure as consistent an approach to behaviour as possible by all adults working with the child, including the parents and carers.  We aspire to be positive; praising those who are behaving appropriately so that children are helped to become sensitive to, and understand the effects of their actions on other people.

We follow the Church’s year, foster an awareness of the sacramental life of the church and give great emphasis to personal, social and health education.  We seek to nurture, support and develop each child’s self-esteem and enable them to make a positive contribution both to the school and in the wider community.  We aspire to help build a sound foundation from which the children will eventually be able to achieve a social, moral and cultural understanding of the world to enable economic well-being and spiritual fulfilment.

If you're searching for your next teaching post, why not contact us now? You'll be working at a great school and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed teachers!