Chaplaincy
Our Chaplaincy Team is made up of 2 members from each year group, who have been elected by their class.
‘Future Saints’ Chaplaincy Team
The Chaplaincy team play a vital role in enhancing and promoting the school virtues and Gospel values alongside our faith to pupils, staff and the wider community. All of our chaplains take joy in carrying out their responsibilities. ‘Future Saints’ meet weekly with our school Chaplain to review the action plan they helped to write and consider different ways in which they are strengthening mission, deepening prayer and enabling communion.
The Chaplaincy Team Aims:
· To help the school to grow as a community of faith.
· To encourage the pupils to live their faith in daily living.
· To support Liturgy, prayer and the spiritual life of the school.
· To embody missionary discipleship through our faith in action outreach projects.
· To continue to develop strong links with the Parish.
· To support the school in its Mission Statement and virtues.
This will establish deep rooted and uncompromising attributes that will permeate through our local community and beyond to create intercultural understanding and respect
‘Laudato Si’ Team
‘Laudato Si’ (Praise be to You) is a Papal encyclical that focuses on ‘care for our common home’. Our Laudato Si Team is a special kind of council made up of one elected pupil from each class, designed to enable the school to help the environment. The team meet fortnightly with their staff lead, to discuss and plan how to improve both the school environment and that of the wider world. The Eco-team members feedback the key highlights of their meetings in their classrooms to keep everyone informed of their plans.
Trust Chaplaincy
In addition to our own Chaplaincy Team, we are also privileged to be able to use the resources and support of our Trust Chaplaincy Team:
St Thérèse of Lisieux – Little Way Week
Feast day, 1 October: Little Way Week is inspired by St Thérèse of Lisieux, patron of mission. As a child St Thérèse dreamed of being a missionary. With age she understood that very few of us are called to make big and radical gestures, but that through small, loving actions we too can deliver God’s love to the world.
Aged seven, Thérèse joined The Society of the Holy Childhood, known to us now as Mission Together. It was as a member of the Holy Childhood that Thérèse grew in faith and admiration for the work of the missionaries. Our five fact assembly teaches children about St Thérèse and encourages them to follow her ‘Little Way’.
Little Way Week 2024 begins on Monday 30 September and ends on Friday 4 October. The feast of St Thérèse of Lisieux falls on Tuesday 1 October.
Mission Together have some lovely resources to celebrate this special Feast Day, including the colouring pages below:
For more information on the work that Mission Together do, please click the link below:
Remembrance Day 2024
Our Chaplaincy Team helped Mrs Wright to plan a remembrance service which was held in school on Monday 11th November 2024. They chose to focus on the theme of peace and chose Peace Perfect Peace as their hymn. We reflected on the Catholic Social Teaching of ‘Being Peacemakers’ and thought about how we can behave towards one another in a way that models the kinds of words and actions that God wants us to use towards one another. The Chaplaincy Team lead the remembrance service beautifully for our whole school community and the parents and visitors who attended to. Everybody joined in respectfully with the two minutes of silence. The Chaplaincy Team wrote their own prayer which they shared with everybody during the service:
Dear God,
Thank you for all of the brave people, especially our own relatives, who fought in the war.
Sorry for the times when we have not been peacemakers in our own lives and please help us to bring peace to the people who need it most.
Amen.
