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The Spirit of St. Thomas More is one which sees the Catholic Secondary School as one which must be permeated with Gospel values, which regards each person, staff member or student, as uniquely gifted by God, which presents to its members an alternative vision of life, and which strives to grow as a Christian community.

St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School urges its teachers to be conscious of their prophetic function to challenge, to encourage and to instill in the young people entrusted to them a Christian vision of all aspects of human existence.

St. Thomas More challenges its students to respond to the message of the gospel to reflect in their conduct a commitment to the ideals of Jesus.

Therefore, we endorse the following goals:

1. To regard each student as being of unique worth and destiny created in the image of the Living God.

2. To lead each student towards a deeper sense of self-worth and a growing commitment to be of service to others.

3. To foster in students a respect for learning and a desire to increase their understanding of their world, with a recognition of the primacy of intelligence and love over emotion, habit or prejudice in making decisions in life.

4. To encourage a sense of personal responsibility in the use of the gift of freedom.

5. To assist each student in the development of a set of moral values and patterns of conduct which spring from a social conscience formed by the Gospels.

6. To ensure that every student treats all others with the respect, fairness and understanding in recognition and acceptance of the racial, ethnocultural, linguistic and religious diversity that is characteristic of the St. Thomas More school community and of the world as a whole.

Our ultimate goal is to challenge our students to integrate into their lives the values cherished by our school: to become promoters of justice in an unjust world, to become signs of love in the midst of hostility, to become peacemakers on a planet threatened with violence.

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