St Matthew's

I am delighted to be able to welcome you to our lovely school. I feel extremely blessed and privileged to be leading this wonderful school which has served the people of Prudhoe for almost 150 years.  

We are a Catholic school serving the parish of Our Lady and St. Cuthbert, the community of Prudhoe and its surrounding areas.  We welcome all children regardless of faith background and we endeavour to provide a first class education provided in a deeply caring and nurturing setting.  

At St. Matthew’s, we want to ensure that, as well as preparing them for their futures, our children are enabled to feel present so that they can enjoy every single day of their school experience. Our aim is that as they look back in the future, they really believe it when they say, ‘they were the happiest days of our lives’.  

As well as ensuring that our children are academically prepared for the next step in their educational journey, we are passionate about ensuring our children’s school days truly are ‘the happiest days’ of their lives. Our ‘childhood curriculum’ is designed to ensure all our children leave St. Matthew’s with a breadth of experiences, designed and delivered to build character developing key life skills, and to ignite a passion for life long learning. Our curriculum is based on five cornerstones  which underpin every lesson, every interaction, and every experience our children participate in during their time at St. Mathew’s.  Our curriculum is designed to build confidence, develop communication, encourage creativity, embrace challenge and produce global citizens who will enact positive change.

At St. Matthew’s, we pride ourselves on the strength of the relationships built between home and school.  We recognise that St. Matthew’s is an extension of your children’s home and as such, we aim to create a loving, happy and welcoming environment, in which all members of the family feel supported and can flourish.  

If you would like to discover more about life at St. Matthew’s we would love to hear from you. I would be delighted to show you around our wonderful school.

Mr Martin Gray
Headteacher