Yesterday, Mrs Murphy, accompanied by two of our children from Year 6, visited The Elms Resource Centre with the kind donations that our school community had given for Ramadan and Eid. The Elms Resource Centre are a Muslim charity and help the entire community. They have since let us know that they have supported more people than ever due our community’s kind donations.
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:
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.
