Remembrance 2025

Year 6 led the school in an act of remembrance. After explaining the significance of the day, they led the whole school in a reflective two minute silence. They also prodiced some beautiful artwork to display in the hall.

Harvest Festival 2025 🍏🍎🌽🥬🥦

Thank you to all the families, parishioners and governors who joined us for our Harvest celebration of thanks. 🥦🌽🥬🍏🍎🍇🥮🌾

To mark the start of the new school year and the end of the Season of Creation, we celebrated Mass in school. Children from each class took part by leading the prayers and scripture readings. One child from every class also presented their class pledge to look after God's wonderful world, renewing our commitment to care for our common home. Father Krisitan and Deacon Michael led Mass and we were joined by lots of families, parishioners and governors.

Every child has also contributed to our garden of peace and hope display reflecting Pope Leo's call to be seeds of peace and hope in the world.

In response to Pope Francis' call to be Pilgrims of Hope in this Jubilee year, the whole school took part in a pilgrimage around our town. After a short prayer service in school we all walked to the local park, carrying our banner and flames of Hope. At the park we prayed in thanks for God's amazing creation and then enjoyed a picnic together. Our younger children then headed back to school for their own Service of the Word whilst KS2 continued their pilgrimage. We walked through town, stopping to pray at significant points such as the factory, the hospital, the leisure centre, a residential care home and primary school before arriving at our destination of St Andrew's Church. We ended our pilgrimage with a Service of the Word in the church. It was a wonderful, joyful experience for everyone.

Our school community was saddened to hear of the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday. During our Weekly Word and class prayer time we have taken time to reflect on his life, work and the messages he gave us. We spoke about how, in this special year of Jubilee, we can continue to spread his message of hope, peace and love in the world.

Following a CAFOD assembly and workshops led by Mrs Trott, the children were keen to raise some money for the Lent Appeal. The Glitter Chickens Appeal aims to provide chickens to communities, enabling them to feed themselves and also to sell the eggs to buy other essentials. The children enjoyed taking part in a chicken orienteering activity and then using the clues they found on the chickens to answer some tricky questions. We not only had great fun but raised an amazing £135 - enough to buy a small flock of chickens. 

On the last day of the Spring Term we celebrated 'Holy Week in a Day'. Each class led us in a reflection about a different part of Jesus' journey through Holy Week. Acorns started the day with a joyful enactment of Palm Sunday, Maple then told us the story of the Last Supper. After break Oak helped us to think about Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and Peter's Denial and later led a moving reflection on the crucifixion. To end the day, Willow finished the story with the joy and happiness of Easter Day. We were delighted to welcome so many parents, friends and parishioners to share this special day with us.

Fr Kristian and Deacon Michael joined us in school to mark the beginning of Lent with a liturgy of the word for Ash Wednesday. We took time to reflect and make a positive promise to change something in our lives as we journey towards Easter. At the end of the service, as everyone received a cross of ashes on their foreheads, Fr Kristian explained that this was an outward sign of God's love for us.

Willow class led the school and wider community in a Prayer for Christian Unity. To mark the 1700th anniversary of the writing of the Nicene Creed they helped us to reflect on the Trinity as a focus for unity. It was lovely to be able to invite members of different church communities to join us for this event.

Out GIFT team led the school in a short liturgy to mark Epiphany. Alongside readings, prayers and songs they also helped children from every class create Epiphany blessings for their classroom doors. These have been hung over our doorways asking for blessings on all who enter our school and that Christ will be with us throughout the year.

Keystage 2 led our school and parish community in a joyful celebration of the Christmas story in our annual Carol Service. They read, sang and played beautifully. We were delighted to be welcomed by the parish of St Andrew's (currently home to our parish of St James') for the first time.