Our Vision

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The diverse community of the Isle of Dogs is part of God's rich, varied, and wonderful creation, where his truth can be known and his love experienced.​
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St Luke's School looks to embed that truth and love by opening hearts and minds.  Guided by the story of the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35), the Staff, as educators, walk alongside each child, nurturing their aspirations, helping them navigate change with resilience and celebrating their uniqueness. ​
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We encourage everyone to take responsibility in contributing to human flourishing and developing a strong sense of community in an ever-changing world, resourced by the truth and love they have known at St Luke's School.​

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Core Values
 

We seek to promote core values within our children that will prepare them for a successful life. They should be:

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• Helpful showing kind and excellent manners and teamwork.

• Enthusiastic showing passion for learning and developing a strong sense of discovery.

• Aspirational striving towards high personal standards and excellence in all that they do.

• Resilient and determined and able to rise to challenges.

• Truthful and trustworthy treating others how they would like to be treated.
  
  Highly principled with moral, spiritual, cultural and social awareness, including shared British Values.

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Motto

Our vision is captured in our school motto: 'Hearts overflowing with truth and love'. 

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The Road to Emmaus (Luke 24: 13 - 25)

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The story begins with the total bleakness of people whose dreams have been shattered, facing a dark future because of the horribly cruel end that has come to someone they’ve loved more than anyone else in the world. Then God in his providence brings a stranger into their lives and they feel a growing openness to him. They cast their cares on him maybe for an hour or two. Could he be someone who might help them . . . or not? Their faces reflect the state of their hearts, utterly downcast, but then the stranger starts to speak in a way that makes them feel full of life and hope again - they feel as if their hearts are catching on fire with truth and love! Later, at supper, they realise that this is not a stranger at all, but Jesus who has risen from the dead.

 

This story declares to all mankind the reality of new life through the kindness of the living Jesus who does come near us.

 

This motto is designed to capture the utter joy that we want children to experience, through their learning here at our school, the personal qualities that we hope they will develop and the impact that we hope they will have on one another.

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