Celebration of the Word
Welcome to our school year 2025-2026
"Learning together with God"
We are a Catholic school. The Chapel is at the heart of our school in a spiritual sense. We try to encourage in our pupils a sense of their spiritual relationship with God which informs their daily lives.
We meet as a whole school every Monday and Friday to pray and we sing hymns together on a Wednesday, to celebrate and share in each other’s successes; to offer the new day to God. We also meet together in Key Stages once a week – EYFS and KS1 meet on a Tuesday/Thursday, and KS2 meet on a Thursday.
Our pupils and staff all contribute to the life and worship of our school in a variety of ways; serving, reading, and Eucharistic ministry for the whole school Masses.
Class and phase Masses are also celebrated, giving the children the opportunity for worship in a more informal setting. Pupils are encouraged and expected to participate in planning and leading these services.
In both whole-school and Key Stage Celebration of the Word, children often prepare and lead worship. In Years 5 & 6, the school Chaplaincy Team will take on this role. This can also include, reflecting on the life of a saint whose feast day the church is celebrating, to a dramatic presentation of the teachings of the prophets. Staff too, across the curriculum, lead whole-school prayers and collective worship, demonstrating the rich traditions and styles present in the St Patrick's community.
Please click on the boxes below to see our school and community in prayer.
Whole-School Celebration of the Word - Ten Ten Resources
Termly Gospel Values Assemblies
This year, we are especially focusing on the 9 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching with resources shared by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD). In this work, we look at the encyclical letters which were written by Pope Francis. An encyclical is a letter circulated by the Pope to Catholic churches worldwide. It is sent directly from our Holy Father in Rome to Catholics all over the world and is often addressed to all people of good will, namely non-Catholics who may also want to read the document. Each term, we will share our focus values and our 'Love in Action' awards each Friday will be given to those children who have shown they are demonstrating actions linked to those values.
Term 1 - Participation and Stewardship
Miss Priddle and Mrs Roy launched our Values assemblies on 16th September. We started off by reminding ourselves what the 9 principles are by watching this CAFOD video: https://youtu.be/dLHvosRUfQc .
We then shared our thoughts on the reading from 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 'Love is...' and how Love is such an important value that is our important Golden Thread that ties the other values together.
This term, KS1 are focusing on 'Participation' and KS2 are focusing on 'Stewardship'. As we are all learning about Creation in RE, these values perfectly sum up what we are called by God to do: Be stewards of creation and participate in looking after each other.
Whole-School Masses
Class and Phase Masses