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St Peter’s RC High School is a community founded on mutual love and care for the individual in which the Faith of the Church underpins all our activities.
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Amen.
Lord Jesus, when you called your apostles
you said to them, “Follow me.”
Stay with us, Lord, on our journey.
Be with us as we care for everyone
with love and respect.
Help us to achieve our goals
through resilience and determination.
With your love, let us celebrate and
draw strength from our diversity.
Guide us to be responsible for all in our school community.
We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.
St Peter. Pray for us.
Peter was born at Bethsaida, near the Sea of Galilee. Peter, whose name was originally Simon, was a fisherman along with his brother Andrew. Andrew was one of the first followers of Jesus and he encouraged his brother to join him. During Jesus’ ministry, the gospels show Peter as the foremost apostle in declaring faith in him as the Christ. The name Peter, meaning ‘rock’, was selected by Jesus to indicate that he would be the rock-like anchor for the unity of the Church. Jesus also promised to give him the keys of the kingdom of heaven, which is why depictions of Peter generally show him holding a pair of keys. At the time of the arrest of Jesus, Peter cut off the ear of a servant of the high priest with a sword but then, as had been predicted by Jesus, he denied three times that he had ever known him. After Jesus’ resurrection, Peter re-affirmed his love for Jesus and was commanded to “feed (his) lambs”, to take care of the Church.
The Acts of the Apostles show Peter taking the lead in addressing the crowds gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost. As the leader of the Christians in Jerusalem, he was targeted by Herod for execution but miraculously freed from prison on the night before he was to stand trial. Peter then left Jerusalem and travelled to spread the Gospel. According to tradition, he was in Rome in 63/64AD during the rule of the Roman emperor Nero. In 64 AD Nero blamed the Christians for a disastrous fire in the city. Peter was one of the Christians who was taken prisoner and was sentenced to death by crucifixion. At his own request, he was crucified with his head downwards because he did not consider himself worthy to die in the same posture as his Divine Master.
Pope Paul VI, who led the Catholic Church during the mid-20th century, was instrumental in confirming the identification of the bones discovered in the necropolis as those of St. Peter. His public announcement of this finding affirmed the tomb’s significance and cemented its status as a central site of Christian veneration.
St. Peter, Pray for us!
We value the links we have established with our partner primary schools, 6th form colleges, higher education institutions and numerous business organisations.
At St Peter’s we teach the importance of British values within a broader framework of Catholic values…
Good attendance is a high priority at St Peter’s and we are justifiably proud
We are proud of the many prestigious awards we have received from a range of organisations/institutions…
