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.

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

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.

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

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

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.