Catholic Life

The children have been learning about the Bible. We looked inside our golden box and found our special book. The children all held the Bible and we talked how it has lots of wonderful stories about God and Jesus. We also talked about why we make the sign of the cross when we say our prayers. The…

Today we visited Church and looked at the Easter display showing the cross and Jesus’s tomb. This reminded us of the different bible stories we have read about Jesus throughout our topic ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. We also looked at the baptismal font and talked about our own baptisms.

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On Sunday it is the feast of the English Martyrs. In class today Y2 found out about the English Martyrs.

There was so much of the Catholic Life of the school to celebrate today and it was so much fun.  The children from both of our nurseries took part in an Easter Raffle to raise money for Nugent’s Good Shepherd Appeal.  We learned that not everyone would win but that in raising money for charity we…

Today the children in Key Stage 2 held an Easter Reflection in church.  The children retold the events leading up to the death of Jesus with respect and emotion.  They sang beautifully and read clearly.  Thank you children for helping us to prepare for Easter in such a deeply spiritual way.…

Today we had a beautiful end of topic celebration for our nursery and reception children with the parents of nursery children invited.  It was a fantastic turn out and the children loved sharing their learning with all those present.  The children were so respectful during times of prayer and…

Today in our Celebration of the Word Assemblies the children learned a new song for the Jubilee Year 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope.  Listen to it here…

Song of Hope

Some of our collective worship ambassadors and prayer buddies had been creating designs for special Jars of Hope for each class in school.  We are celebrating the Jubilee Year this year with the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hop’.  The jars will be kept on the prayer focus table in class and pupils are…

Today the children are having a fancy-dress day to raise money for the Good Shepherd Appeal. They are having lots of fun playing and painting together.

Fundraising this Advent

As a year group, we have chosen to raise money for CAFOD this season. We are hoping to raise money to provide safe, clean water for families who do not have access to one of life’s essentials. The children have already started to come up with many different ways in which…

We welcomed Justine from CAFOD to speak to all of the children about World Gifts today.

She came and talked about the work of CAFOD, what World Gifts are and how we can help in the work of CAFOD this advent season.

To find out more please visit: https://worldgifts.cafod.org.uk/

Year 2 & Year 6 Graduation Day!

We were welcomed to Edge Hill University with our families to take part in a joint graduation ceremony with children from St Robert Bellarmine and Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary schools. The children who had undertaken 30 or more credits in Year 2 graduated and…