Our school Chaplaincy team, which is supported by Mrs Taylor and Mrs Muttrie-Wejisinghe, enthusiastically help to organise and promote prayer, and events within school which develop the Catholic life of our school and help us all to grow and share our Faith.
The Chaplaincy/prayer group help deliver lunch time prayer sessions, where children can pray together, this includes praying the Rosary together in October and May, prayers around the crib during Advent and travelling the Stations of the Cross during Lent.
They also help set up Rosary areas, the Nativity crib scene and the Stations of the Cross in the hall and prayer room.
The prayer group have really enjoyed sharing some of their favourite Biblical stories with other children, so that all children are spiritually enriched and develop a love and understanding of them.
During Lent, the Chaplaincy group lead The Stations of the Cross and they encourage pupils to attend prayer group in our prayer space. They also encourage other pupils to take in lead in delivering the Stations of the Cross, one evening, to members of St Mary’s.
Every September, the school Chaplaincy group helped to organise and run a Macmillan coffee morning. Fantastic support is given by parents, friends and pupils.
The chaplaincy group are continually promoting Pope Francis’ message on Laudato Si by promoting an awareness of how we can support the people/ communities of the World- this year focusing on the area around the Amazon basin.
During the season of Lent the Chaplaincy group help promote, prayer, fasting and almsgiving. They organised a sponsored walk to support CAFOD’s ‘Walk Against Hunger’ appeal. All pupils supported this and families were very generous. They also organised the Big Lent Walk, once again our families were very generous.
Each year our Chaplaincy group and Mrs Taylor support CAFOD by attending St Mary’s Cathedral Lenten soup kitchen. They thought about all of those children in the world, who are their Global neighbours, but who do not have enough to eat. They link this in with leading members of the parish through the Stations of the Cross.
Parish priests regularly visit school and support our Chaplaincy group, through prayer, discussion and by spending time with all of the children. They also lead end of year retreats for both Y4 as part of the Sacramental Program and Y6 as part of their transition to secondary schoo.
This year so far The Chaplaincy group and Minnie Vinnies have worked together to arrange the MacMillan Coffee morning in school.
The Chaplaincy group got together as a group to set up the hall for Our November Remembrance. They set up a tree for staff and pupils to add prayers to.
The Chaplaincy and Minnie Vinnie groups launched the Christmas hamper appeal with a whole school assembly. They sent a letter out to inform parents and children of items needed for the hampers and helped to sort them in classes.
