Our Catholic faith is at the very heart of our school and is evident as soon as you come through our doors in what you will see, hear and feel inside St. Clare’s.
St Clare’s serves a vibrant multicultural, and multi-faith, community. Care and respect for individual differences is very much at the heart of our ethos. This is emphasised regularly throughout the day. As well as the daily acts of prayer and liturgy our children pray regularly throughout the day in their classrooms.
Our school arranges visits to other places of worship within our local community so that children can learn about the beliefs of others.
Serving Our Parish and School Community
We serve our parish of St. Clare’s and the local community in many ways sharing God’s message of love with others whenever we can.
Some ways in which we do this are:
- Holding special, reflective services and liturgies in our church for our school and parish communities, especially during Advent and Holy Week.
- We organise school-parish Masses throughout the year where children from our school lead the collective worship for the parish.
- Assemblies are held on Monday and members of our community are invited and encouraged to attend. These always have a religious focus.
- Working with Parents as partners in our Nursery and Reception classes.
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Charities
We support lots of charities throughout the year and staff, children and their families are always extremely generous in their support of others.
Money is raised through fund raising events, fairs and charitable donations from the school community. In recent years we have made donations to CAFOD, Macmillan Cancer research, the Royal British Legion and many other worthy causes.
We also support the The Good Shepherd and Mary’s Meals by collecting and donating food and toiletries during Harvest and Advent.