Blog by Tag: Catholic Life

In our RE topic, Prophecy and Promise, the children have been learning about the story of the Angel Gabriel visiting Jesus to tell her the news of a baby boy called Jesus.  The children have been using our small world nativity figures to retell the story. The children learnt about the love that…

Christmas preparation is in full swing in Reception.  We are slowly working our way through costumes for our Nativity play.  Watch out for any lines in book bags this week.  

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/

Y1 and Y2 came together this morning to celebrate their Harvest festival. Many thanks to all the families who have donated food to Seaforth Mission.

Meet our School Councillors! 

Our School councillors have been very busy already this term, with three meetings with Mr Dinsdale. So far, they have discussed and voted on the theme for the mufti days (now set out on the school website and calendar) and they have also been discussing the rewards…

The first School Council meeting of 2024-25 took place on Friday afternoon. 
The children discussed the role of School Council representative and how this would work. 

Attendance Rewards:

Mr Dinsdale asked the children to think about the rewards for good attendance and invited them to take…

After reading God’s Rainbow we thought about all our actions that harm God’s world. We talked about how we can turn over a new leaf and put them right. 

This week we have been invited to join our hands and close our eyes when we pray.  We have been learning to make the sign of the cross.  

As a class we talked about the similarities and differences between talents and qualities.

We then thought about the qualities of our friends and what they are good at.

We realised how others see us and how we don’t always recognise our own qualities.

Y2 enjoyed making puppets and retelling the story of Noah and his Ark.

Our Year 5 School Council representatives joined Mr Dinsdale on Friday 5th July at a special celebration event at Bootle Town Hall to showcase what all the STRAND Partnership schools had undertaken through the Social Signature project this year. Dr Pete Hawkin was on hand to thank and congratulate…

We welcomed CAFOD volunteers to lead workshops on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching across school from Reception to Year 5.
It was really informative and helped us to better understand how we can make a difference in the world. 

Thank-you CAFOD for helping us on our…