Catholic Social Teaching

We had a visit from Jackie form the CAFOD education team, she introduced us to the animals that represent each of the Catholic Social Teaching values.

Spreading positive messages throughout school

Following our Mental Health Week, our School Council decided to spread some positive messages throughout the school. These can be read on a daily basis by children, staff and visitors to give them a positive boost to their day.

Fair Trade fortnight

We have been learning about the importance of giving farmers a fair price for their produce, such as coffee, cocoa and bananas. The fair trade symbol lets us know that farmers have been given a fair price, look for this symbol when shopping. Catholic Social Teaching about Solidarity teaches us that by using these products we are standing together as one with our global family.

At the end of our Fair trade fortnight, we had a raffle to win a hamper filled with Frair Trade goodies. As you can see the children were very pleased with their prizes.

Celebrating Earth day in Reception class

Earth Day 2024

Earth Day

Year 5 led a wonderful Earth Day assembly. The children talked about the actions we can take to help God’s creation flourish.

Cash for kids walk. We’ll done everyone.

Stop Plastic Pollution! Persuasive letters to the PM

Cash 4 kids

Year 4 took part in a sponsored walk to raise money for our local charity ‘Cash 4 kids’ who help children in our local area. We’ll done Year 4

Talking to Downing Street!

Year 2 are very excited to have had a response from 10 Downing Street following our persuasive letters about stopping plastic pollution.

UK Parliament Week

This week, Y6 have created manifestos and voted in a polling booth for the next Y6 prime minister.

Eid celebrations

We had a lovely day in Y6 celebrating Eid with our friends.

Earth day

Year 5 held a meaningful collective worship all about how we are the stewards of creation. We should follow the advice of Sofia the Sloth.

collective worship circle time

Forest Friends

Pre Loved Uniform Sale

This week the School Council and Eco Council worked together to plan and deliver a pre loved uniform sale. It was a great success and very well supported by our school community, raising much needed funds which will allow us to continue our projects next school year. Thank you to everyone who supported us!

Busy First Week

Year 4 have had a busy first week, we developed our own class charter, we picked articles from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that we thought we needed in our class. We created pictures of a famous Liverpool landmark using a variety of techniques (can you guess where it is?), consolidated our knowledge of 4-digit numbers using manipulatives, learned what partitive nouns are and found out that ‘Being different is the best thing ever!’ What a week!

Prayer and liturgy in Reception Class – Being thankful for our differences

Art work inspired by God’s gifts

Celebrating the wonderful things that God created for us.

Year 5 prayer and liturgy

Year 5 carried out a wonderful black history prayer and liturgy. The children read extremely. Well done year 5.

Tidying up our prayer garden

After a long summer break, our prayer garden was in need of a little care. Y6 spent some time clearing the leaves and litter to make this a lovely space to sit and reflect.

Stewardship

Harvest themed Prayer and Liturgy in Reception Class

Creation Walk

Today the Eco Council led an assembly to launch the ‘Cut Your Carbon’ campaign.

Bug Hunting in Forest School

Lest we forget

Year 5 led a beautiful remembrance prayer and liturgy. This included a visit from friend of St Clare’s, Pipe Major James Axon who performed a wonderful lament (Flowers of the Forest).

Imperial War Museum North

Today we visited the IWM North. We were really excited to revisit our learning on WW1 and we added to our knowledge of WW2. We learned about the effects of war and the value of peace. We also got to take part in a two minute silence at 11am to mark Armistice Day.

Remembrance day in Reception Class

Odd socks day!

Today we are wearing our odd socks to mark Anti Bullying week. We are reminded that we are all unique and different and we should celebrate this by always being kind to one another.

Aspiration day!

Today we have thought about what and who we aspire to be in Y6. We aspire to be: teachers, footballers, goalkeepers, doctors, an entrepreneur, a NASA scientist and a paleontologist!

No pens day

Today as part of no pens day Y6 took part in a debate asking if money on space travel should be spent on people on Earth instead? There were lots of strong arguments on both sides. Well done Y6!

I aspire to be Fire Fighter!

P4C

Gudwara Visit

Advent Prayer and Liturgy

Year 5 led today’s Advent prayer and liturgy, celebrating the 2nd Sunday of Advent – Peace.

How to plant a seed with Food for Thought

Eco Council’s Commitment to Sustainability

We love board games!

Y6 love playing card and board games during wet play. There were some fierce Uno games being played and some chess champions in the making!

Jubilee Year Launch

Today we had a visit from Jackie from CAFOD. She came to tell us all about this year’s Big Lent Walk fundraising event – buying ‘glitter chickens’ for villages in Kenya and to hold workshops for years 2 and 4, learning about the Jubile Year of Hope.

CAFOD Jubilee Launch

Standing in solidarity with one another

Y6 reflected on the theme of solidarity this week during their assembly. They listened to the story of Shristi the Sun Bear and shared with the rest of the school the ways we stand together to help our global neighbours.

Chinese New Year Cultural Celebration

Pilgrims of Hope

Today we welcomed Jackie from CAFOD to teach us all about the Jubilee year. We learned about pilgrimages and about working together for the good of everybody.

French Day

Liverpool Schools Parliament

Today we were privileged to be invited to take part in Liverpool Schools Parliament at the magnificent Liverpool Town Hall. Representatives from our Rights Respecting and Eco Council had the opportunity to meet our Lord Mayor and take part in a series of debates focusing on environmental issues in our schools. We came away feeling truly inspired with how we can really make a difference and look forward to adressing some of these initiatives in school right away.

Mary’s meal

Today we had an assembly and workshop with Anna from Mary’s Meals. We learnt how the charity started and how it is feeding over 2 million children a day in other parts of the world for only 10p per day! It only cost £19.15 to feed a child 1 meal per day for a year.

Happy Easter from Y6!

Big Lent Walk

Recently, the whole school took part in the Big Lent Walk for CAFOD, raising money to buy glitter chickens for families in Kenya. These chickens are very hardy and don’t need much water so are ideal for the drought conditions experienced in Kenya. We will know how much we’ve collected shortly.

Visit from Asylum Link

Today we had a very informative visit from Noor (Asylum Link Merseyside) who delivered a whole school assembly and class workshops to teach us about what means to be a refuge or asylum seeker aswell as the fabulous work they do to support families in Liverpool.

Trip to Gillmoss Recycling Discovery Centre

Representatives from our Eco Council and School council had a fascinating and fun filled visit to Gillmoss Recycling Discovery centre. We learnt so much about the importance of recycling correctly as well as visiting the factory to see recycling in action!

Eid Celebration Day in Y6

CAFOD Colour Run

Mission Day

Today Y6 went on a pilgrimage around the school grounds. Whilst on their pilgrimage, they thought about different ways they could let their light shine. Back in class they created a wonderful video about what it means to shine in school, at home and in the wider community.

Stewardship of God’s Creation in Y6

Today Y6 went on a nature walk to celebrate the jubilee year and their hopes for God’s world in the future. They collected items from the school grounds and created their own version of the jubilee badge.

Jubilee Year-Pilgrims of Hope

Today, Year 4 took a pilgrimage through our school, we took rubbing of bark and leaves we had collected as part of our Jubilee pledge day. We all wrote pledges, saying how we cook be Pilgrims of Hope in our school, using Catholic Social Teaching. We also created a 3-d representation of the Jubilee logo #Jubilee

KS1 Pilgrimage

Jubilee celebration

Year 5 took part in a Prayer and liturgy, celebrating the Jubilee as we become pilgrims of hope.

Food for thought

Year 5 had an amazing time stepping back in time to make Viking pottage with the fantastic team from Food for Thought! The children loved getting hands-on with the ingredients and learning how the Vikings cooked their meals.

Y6 prayer and liturgy

Today Y6 welcomed their parents and families to join us in worship. The theme was unconditional love. The children enjoyed planning and leading the worship and it was lovely to reflect together on what unconditional love from God means in our lives.

Nursery class have been learning about God’s wonderful world

In RE, Nursery explored the story of Creation using our special golden box. We started with darkness, then added light, sky, grass, and animals to show how God made the world. A lovely, hands-on way to bring the story to life!

Prayer and liturgy

Year 5 took part in a beautiful Prayer and Liturgy about hopes and dreams.

RHSE consultation for Parents

We had a great turn out today for our parents consultation with all year groups represented. Many thanks to all were able to attend. If you need any more information, please don’t hesitate to ask or check out the parents information page on the website.

Year 4 visit to church

On Wednesday, Year 4 visited our Parish church of St Clare’s. One of the parishioners, Cathy, showed us around and described the special areas of the church. She also showed us where the first 2 Sacraments of Baptism and First Holy Communion take place.

Fairtrade circle time

As a class we discussed fairtrade and why it is important. We then had a debate on how much money should be given to each role for it to be fair. It was very interesting!

Fairtrade colouring

Artwork celebrating God’s creations

Fairtrade Fortnight

Our new Eco Council have had a busy first half term organising Fairtrade Fortnight. They delivered a whole school assembly on current Fairtrade issues & organised fundraising by selling raffles tickets for our annual Fairtrade hamper. The money raised will support global Fairtrade initiatives to ensure farmers get a fair deal for their goods.

Commitment in our community

Today we welcomed our local PCSO to talk to us about the commitments of her job as part of our current RE topic.

Reception Class Harvest Trail

Mary’s Meals

Today we ate some delicious porridge and made a donation to raise money for Mary’s Meals. We learned how this charity provides children across the world with a warm nutritious mug of porridge each school day to help them stay healthy and increase their ability to learn and grow.

Supporting ‘Mary’s Meals’ in Reception Class

Nursery class enjoyed tasting porridge in support of the charity ‘Mary’s meals’

Respecting our Rights

Maths party day invitations

In year 1 we created invitations to invite all the other classes to the maths party day assembly

Caring for God’s world

Harvest trail

Y6 took Nursery on a wonderful Harvest trail around our school. We sang, said prayers and gave thanks to God for our Earth and its abundant gifts.

Harvest Trail

Thank you Year 6 for taking Nursery on a wonderful Harvest trail around our school. It was a lovely morning, we enjoyed singings songs, listening to stories and planting bulbs along the way!

Nursery Class – Looking after God’s World

Nursery class have been thinking about how we can look after God’s wonderful world. We went on a walk around the school grounds, taking time to admire the beauty of God’s creation.

Mission

Year 5 have been learning that we all have a mission, no matter how big or small. They created a mission which they can carry out at school. One group’s mission was to help some year 3 children play tennis.

Mary’s meals

Year 5 enjoyed eating their porridge and learning about the valuable work carried out by Mary’s meals.

Harvest Trail

Year 5 took part in a wonderful Harvest trail across different areas of our school site.

Year 3 enjoyed eating their porridge and learning about the valuable work carried out by Mary’s meals.

Mary’s meals porridge day

Year 3 took part in a wonderful Harvest trail across different areas of our school site.

Year 3 took part in a creation walk for RE. We talked about natural beauty and linked all of these things to the Creation story.

Harvest walk

Year 3- Prayer and Liturgy table.

Year 3 made pledges to make a difference and to make our world a nice place to live in.

Year 3 made creation wheels to retell the Creation story.

Year 3 spent time thinking about the sky and its beauty.

Year 1 Creation walk

Porridge Day

Harvest Trail

Our Harvest collection

Our families did us proud during our harvest festival week this year. They donated items of food which have been collected by our local foodbank @ImagineIfTrust, supporting our local community

Today we went into our new outdoor Prayer Space for our daily Prayer and Liturgy

A visit from our PCSO

Our local PCSO came to visit Y5 and Y6 to talk about how we should behave in our community for the Common Good. We covered topics such as antisocial behavior and firework safety.

Doing an act of service for others

Y6 have been learning about Sikhism this week. They discovered that Sikh people do acts of service called Sewa. Y6 chose to do a litter pick, inspired by our eco councillors, to serve our school community. We reflected on how our act of service made us feel and the people we served through our actions.

Year 5 Remembrance celebration

Year 5 led a thoughtful celebration of the word about Remembrance, sharing reflections, poems, and prayers to honour those who have served. We were also joined by our friend of the school, Pipe Major James Axon, who performed beautifully on the yard, creating a moving and memorable tribute for everyone

Odd socks day in Y6

Everyone is unique and we all let our light shine in different ways. Today we wore odd socks to mark anti -bullying week and to remind us to treat everyone with respect.

Sikh people care for our world

In Y6 we learned that Sikh people are called to serve the planet by not wasting resources. We made links to the Catholic Social Teaching Value of stewardship of God’s creation. We put posters up around school to encourage members of our school community to not waste water, electricity and food.

Anti-Bullying Week

To mark Anti-Bullying Week, the Y6 House Captains and Junior Leaders led the whole school in an assembly.

Celebration of the word

Year 5 took part in a remembrance celebration of the word.

Anthony Walker Foundation

Year 5 took part in a fantastic work shop delivered by the Anthony Walker Foundation. We are an anti-racist school!

A very special workshop

Y6 were very excited to welcome back a member of the Anthony Walker Foundation. We talked about racism and what it means to be anti-racist. The children produced some wonderful work to reflect on the messages they heard.

Jubilee Year Celebration day

Today we marked the end of the church’s Jubilee Year with a day of celebration and reflection. We started the day reviewing what we had done all year to promote the Jubilee’s message of Hope. The whole school was decorated with balloons and streamers in the Jubilee colours and we all wrote postcards with messages of Hope to share with our families. Our lovely cook even made cupcakes for us to take home. We ended the day with a Celebration of the Word, with our Faith ambassadors taking a leading role.What a day!

Jubilee Celebration Day Y6

Y6 really enjoyed celebrating everything they have achieved this jubilee year. We remembered our pilgrimages of hope; wore our house colours to reflect the jubilee badge and created bunting and postcards. We even finished the day off with yummy cupcakes!

Making our vote count

During Parliament week, in our RE lesson we each voted on which artwork from around the world we liked the best. The most popular artwork went up on our display.

Celebration of the word

Nursery – Advent and heart promises

In RE, the children learned about Advent and waiting for Jesus by exploring an Advent calendar. We talked about waiting and trying our best, and began our heart promises — starting with Hope. These are now displayed on our RE wall, with Peace, Joy and Love to come.

Fellowship

Today Y6 explored how to live in fellowship with one another. They created paper doll chains and discussed what it means to live and work together following Jesus’ example.

Advent – waiting in hopeful expectation

Y6 have filled their Advent calendar with prayers, acts of service and devotions. We will patiently take turns each day as we wait in hope during this season.

Advent Trail – Nursery and Year 6

This morning Nursery and Year 6 children took part in a wonderful Advent Trail around the school grounds. Along the way we sang hymns and listened to scripture readings. We ended the trail in Forest School, where we were greeted by Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, Angel Gabriel, the Wise Men and the Shepherds.

Advent Trail

KS1 Nativity

Advent trail

Thank you to the Y6 children who took a lead part in the Advent trail. They had a wonderful time teaching the younger children about the Nativity and guiding them in their worship.

Reception Class Nativity

We are so proud of our wonderful Reception Class for such a fantastic performance today!

Advent Trail

Year 5 and Reception class took part in a wonderful, imersive Advent trail. Year 6 did a fantastic job leading it and it and it really brought this important liturgical season alive for all the children involved.

Planning Celebration of the Word

During our Faith Ambassador meeting this week, Key Stage 2 pupils worked together to plan a Celebration of the Word. They used sources from CAFOD and wrote their own prayer.

Christmas card making in Reception Class

Y6 and Reception elf walk

Raising money to help others

Whole School Prayer and Liturgy to mark the feast of Epiphany

Celebrating the Epiphany feast day in Reception Class when the magi (3 wise men) came to visit Jesus.

The three kings

Year 5 delivered the three kings to the nativity scene on the Epiphany.

Epiphany artwork

Curiosity Celebration of the Word

Today we invited our parents to worship with us. We heard about how Jesus was curious to learn more about God and how we can foster and nurture our own curiosity in God too.

Developing our ‘green fingers’ in Reception Class

Reception Class have been lucky to take part in a series of ‘grow with us’ sessions led by the Food for Thought initiative. This week we grew our own bean plants and are looking forward to developing the school gardens over the coming weeks.

Plastic Clever Schools assembly in Y6

Unfortunately, Y6 couldn’t make the whole school plastics assembly due to other commitments but the wonderful Y6 Eco Council representatives stepped in and delivered the assembly for us in class. They did a wonderful job!

Plastic Clever School launch

Our Eco Council led today’s whole school assembly to launch our Plastic Clever Schools campaign. They gave us some quite alarming facts about the amount of single use plastic found in our oceans.

Our end of topic celebration

Y6 planned and delivered a beautiful Celebration of the Word in our prayer garden to mark the end of our ‘Sources’ work. They wrote prayers, shared Bible readings and reflected on their new knowledge and growth.

Candles class artwork

A visit from the charity Mary’s Meals

We leant about how the money we raised during our porridge day helped to deliver life-changing school meals to children living in some of the world’s poorest communities.

Mary’s Meals

Y6 had a wonderful session today learning more about the wonderful work Mary’s Meals does feeding 3 million children daily across the world.

Year 4 Celebration of the Word

Today Year 4 invited their parents to join them in their daily Celebration of the Word. The theme was trust and we heard how we should always trust in the Lord and do good.

The call of the disciples (Luke 5:1-11)

We shared our love by inviting our friends to share food with us, just like Jesus did.

Our Prayers

Roleplay of The Last Supper

The Last Supper artwork

Making Easter cards for our families to celebrate the symbol of new life.

We learnt all about Easter traditions in Poland

Today with invited one of our Polish parents into Reception class to teach us all about Polish Easter traditions. We loved the beautifully colourful Polish palms and learnt all about what goes into a polish Easter basket.

Crucifixion artwork

We used our IPads to create beautiful artwork to remember how Jesus died on the cross for us all.

Enjoying a traditional Easter treat for our snack

We have been learning all about the Easter Story in Reception class and enjoyed sampling some traditional Hot Cross Buns for snack today.

Garden of Gethsemane.

Year 4 and 5 delivered a beautiful Celebration of the Word about the betrayl of Jesus.

Our Big Lent Walk

The sun came out this morning for our Big Lent Walk. Thank you to everyone who donated to support this wonderful fundraiaing event for CAFOD.