Catholic life
RE lead: Katrina Liddle
Pupil voice Oct 24
Jubliee candle of hope
On Monday 6th May, we were honoured to welcome the KCSP Jubilee Year of Hope candle to St Augustine's. Accompanied by Annemarie Whittle, KCSP CEO, and Joanne Burford, KCSP SIP, the candle is currently travelling around all the schools within the Trust to symbolise the spreading of hope during this special Jubilee year. We have been busy preparing our service, practicing songs, readings and a litany. We reflected on the message of Hope and how we can go forth and share this message with others.
Month of Mary in May.
We have set up a prayer area for children, and adults to prayer the rosary. It has been lovely to watch children approach the prayer area to pray and bring flowers. Mrs De Guzman is leading the rosary during out collective worship time with small groups of children.
Year 3 and 4 pilgrimage to St Dunstans Church
Year 3/4 went on a pilgrimage to St Dunstan's in Southborough on Thursday this week as part of our Pilgrims of Hope Jubilee Year. We looked around the church and talked about the key features, such as the Stations of the Cross and the tabernacle. There was a beautiful memorial to Pope Francis and we said some prayers for the Holy Father and for ourselves. We finished with the Jubilee prayer and some of the members of the congregation who were there joined in with us. It was lovely to share some time in the church and a very special experience.
Remembering Pope Francis
Pope Francis letter addressed to us all, asking us all to listen to the "cry of the earth and the cry of the poor". Laudati si on today WorldEarthDay Eternal rest grant onto him Lord.
Beautiful Easter service led by Year 3 and 4
Reconciliation
Easter
Learning about the stations of the cross
Ash Wednesday service, ashes, lent promises and prayer time for our school today as we celebrate the beginning of a lent.
St Augustine’s lead Mass at Church on Sunday 3rd March 2025
Epiphany
Carol service
Nativity
How will you share the light of Jesus this advent?
Thank you to all our families who joined us at St Augustines Church this morning for Christ the King Mass. The children read, lead the offertory and sang beautifully.
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Pupil voice
We are promoting peace
Hail Mary full of Grace. Today we celebrated the Feast of the Rosary in our lessons. Thank you to Mrs De Guzman who is leading the Rosary with some of our children at lunch time during the month of October.
St Patrick wonderfully led this week’s UKS2 phase assembly. The children planned and delivered the assembly independently! They chose to share the Rosary and the mysteries of Jesus’ life and the importance of this during October.
Pupil chaplains help with our Nourish collection
Wonderful display by our Year 5/6 children
Thank you to our children in 3/4 St Paul who led collective worship today. Year 3/4 were taken on a journey walking in Gods presence.
Pupil chaplains September 24
Beginning of Year Mass
Our #rosaries arrived today from The Catenians. We had a beautiful prayer time with our rosaries.
Holy Week
A beautiful prayer time in the sun. Children have been bringing flowers and spending time praying the rosary. We are excited that soon we will be receiving rosary’s for each child to with.
Leading Sunday Mass
We joined Archbishop John Wilson, and schools across the diocese, to pray the rosary. We have set up a beautiful prayer area so our families can pray before and after school.
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This week is Children’s mental health week and the theme is My voice matters. Today we talked about the things that mattered to us and wow I learnt a lot from these children - snuggles, bedtime stories, getting logs for the fire, planting bushes and so much more! Really insightful, taking the time to listen.
We were excited to read about an Art exhibition to depict multi-racial God though the Commision Newsletter. As a school with a wide range of diversity and culture we decided this was something we would like to include in our lessons.
The art exhibition looks at depicting God and characters from the Bible through different cultural and racial lenses and be held in Manchester in April 2024. Our own art exhibition will be at school in our school hall!
‘It’s time to tell the Christian story in art through a more global perspective,’ said Fleur Dorrell, co-manager of the Made in God’s Image: Art Matters project.
We talked about God’s image and how we would like to represent that through art. All children in the school embarked on how they would like to show the image of God using their own cultural background and diversity. Some children decided that Jesus would be in the image of themselves and others wanted to represent Jesus though nature, animals and our world.
Feast of the Epiphany
Reception, Year one and Year two performed the nativity this week and what a success it was! We sang, we dances, we spread Gods love all around.
Advent
Parish Mass
Year 5 and 6 had a lovely visit from Father Jake today to talk about his vocation.
Beginning of Year Mass
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