This week, children have been learning about Holy Week as it falls in our holidays this year.
Reception enjoyed learning about the events that took place on Palm Sunday. With Palm leaves that they had made, they retold the story of that day.
Today in our Gospel Assembly, we marked the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis becoming pope. Mrs Walker explained how this linked to our social catholic teachings:
‘Dignity for the human person‘ – Pope Francis has called for us to ‘welcome the stranger’ by ensuring that migrants and refugees are able to leave their homelands without risking their lives so they can live safely and with dignity.
‘Care of our Common Home – Stewardship’ Pope Francis wrote the encyclical letter Ladauto SiÂ
‘Common good’ After the pandemic, Pope Francis also encouraged us to build back as a better world. He released Fratelli Tutti, an encyclical letter about not rushing back to life post covid but finding a new normal.
Yesterday, our Year 6 class put on a Liturgy with a focus on their class saint – John Bosco. This was really well attended by parents – thank you.
To link with our Live Simply Award and our Catholic Social Teachings, today was the launch of a new recycling project in partnership with Reconomy and Wolves Foundation.
Reconomy came into school to deliver an assembly to launch the recycling project and also inform the classes on the benefits of recycling. Our Key Stage 2 classes are tasked with collecting plastic bottles and putting them in a recycling bin in their classroom. The class who have collected the most bottles by the end of half term will win a special prize!
But that’s not all… the bottles collected will be turned into a new sports kit for our school, and the kit will be designed by one of our very own pupils!
This morning, we celebrated our Advent Mass in school. Some of our children wanted to show the bambinellis they had made! The children can take these to Church on Sunday at 10:15 am for the parish mass to be blessed.
Congratulations to our Year 6 Confirmandi, who celebrated today after their Holy Sacrament of Confirmation on Wednesday night.
Thank you to Year 4 who held a Class Liturgy this morning on St Andrew, and thank you to the parents that came to support.
Everyone wrote a prayer on a flower, folded the petals and watched as the petals opened on the water!
Yesterday in school, we were acknowledging ‘Red Wednesday’ to support Aid to the Church in Need. Children participated in their own class assemblies and liturgies #RedWednesday2022.
Today, our Confirmandi children had the opportunity to go to St Michael’s Church. We celebrated this special retreat day there with other schools in our academy. This opportunity meant the children could learn more about the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Today, there was a launch assembly for the children to apply to become Mini Vinnies with guest speaker, Mary Rooke.
Mini Vinnies are 7 to 11 year olds based in schools and parishes across England and Wales, and in several other countries across the world. They come together to form a part of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in England and Wales, a voluntary organisation dedicated to tackling poverty in all its forms.
Mini Vinnies meet to pray, discuss and support however they can to help make a difference in their communities.
The children were encouraged to apply to become a Mini Vinnie and they will meet regularly to discuss projects they want to become involved in to make our school, community and world a better place.