The Catholic Life of our school, inspired by our School Mission statement, ‘In every child there is a space that only God can fill’ is one of the most important aspects of our school. Please click on the links below to find out more about just some of the various activities and groups who are actively involved in shaping the mission of our school and in doing so are ‘doing God’s work here on Earth.’
For information about our RE and RSHE Curriculum, please visit the ‘Curriculum’ page of our website.
Please click on the link below to view our Catholic Life and Mission Policy:
Help us to be kind to one another and to be cheerful every day.
Amen
Our Trust Prayer:
God Our Father, Give us strength so that guided by Our Lady’s example we can have the courage to say yes to you. Help us to love like she loves, have faith like she has and follow Jesus example in all that we do.
Inspire in all of us a sense of togetherness so that we can use the gifts that you you have given us for the good of all in our community and bring support and healing to those less fortunate than ourselves.
We ask Our Lady to guide us, just as she guided St Bernadette, as we seek to bring Jesus’ message of love and forgiveness to others.
We ask this through Jesus Christ your Son, Our Lord. Amen
Each week at Holy Trinity we have a special ‘Word of the Week’. This word is the focus of our prayer and worship throughout the school during the entire week. We share the word throughout the entire school and wider community using imaginative and creative videos made by the children. This allows everyone to be able to reflect upon the word and what it means to them in their own spiritual life.
Below are some examples of previous ‘Word of the Week’ videos.
Current films are published on Twitter every Sunday morning. You do not need a Twitter account to see them. Simply click on the Twitter icon on the bottom right hand corner of the this website’s Home Page and scroll through the posts to find the most recent film.
WORD OF THE WEEK: KNOWLEDGE
This week’s Word of the Week is Knowledge. Our video has been created by the children from Y5/6M and…our Respect Ranger!
WORD OF THE WEEK: AWESOME
This week’s Word of the Week is Awesome! It has been made by our Year 5 & Year 6 children with the help of the wonderful staff at @NDCYSlive
WORD OF THE WEEK: REMEMBRANCE
This week’s Word of the Week is Remembrance. We take the time to remember all those who have died in wars and conflict to save others.
WORD OF THE WEEK: SAINT CLARE
This week’s Word of the Week is ‘Saint Clare’ – one of our Holy Trinity House Saints. We take a look into the life of Saint Clare and how important her life was and why she is such an inspiration to our house and school.
WORD OF THE WEEK: FAMILY
Welcome back to a new academic year and to Season 2 of our Word of the Week videos! This week’s Word of Week is ‘Family’ – we are thankful for the wonderful contributions to our first video from some of the families that make up our incredible school community.
In October 2021, Pope Francis launched a ‘Church-wide listening process, officially known as ‘Synod 2021-23’. ‘Synod’ means ‘journeying together’ and each of us are invited to listen to one another, and to discern and dream about the Church that the Holy Spirit is calling us to become in the third millennium. Our school responses will be gathered and shared with the Diocese.
We spent some time reflecting on our dreams for the church and what the Holy Spirit is calling us to do at our Whole School Youth Fun Day Retreat.
Our Chaplaincy Team and Mrs Webster summarised our response and presented them to Fr Michael to take to the Deanery Meeting in January 2022.
Since then we have continued our Synod responses by opening a School Chapel for personal prayer opportunities and inviting parents to join us during our regular, termly Whole School Retreat Days.
Bishop Patrick shared his vision for our diocese and has encouraged all of us in Catholic schools and parishes to consider three themes:
Encounter
Discipleship
Missionary Discipleship
Encounter
ENCOUNTER: Bishop Patrick would like to ensure that people of all ages in our parishes, schools and chaplaincies are helped to discover, or discover more deeply, the importance of a personal ENCOUNTER with Christ; so that they can become convinced that they are each loved by God and are invited to grow in their relationship with him. In particular Bishop Patrick would like to see the development of times of Eucharistic Adoration in our parishes, schools and chaplaincies.
During the Advent Term, and for the Year of Prayer in preparation for the Jubilee Year 2025, our liturgical prayer and Word of the Week themes centre around the theme of ‘Encounter’. We encourage all of the children to consider ways in which they encounter Jesus in their lives, so that they all know that God loves them and that they can all have a relationship with Him in their lives.
We ‘encounter’ Jesus in the bits and pieces of our daily lives…
Discipleship
DISCIPLESHIP: In line with the Year of Jubilee, from 24th December 2024, we will focus on Discipleship. With the personal encounter with Christ, Bishop Patrick encourages each of us to hear and respond to his invitation to be his DISCIPLES, to follow him more closely, and to seek to serve him generously in our daily lives.
We will focus on the theme of ‘discipleship’ and help the children to understand what it means to be a disciple of Jesus…
Missionary Discipleship
MISSIONARY DISCIPLESHIP: As part of the Year of Thanksgiving, from January 7th 2026, we will focus on having a greater recognition of, and openness to, the help, guidance and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, in the knowledge that we can all become MISSIONARY DISCIPLES; faith-filled, joyful and outward-looking Christians who are growing in confidence to speak humbly of the difference that knowing Christ makes to our lives, and who bear witness to His love in our service of our brothers and sisters, especially those most in need. The service to which Christ calls us is always the action of the Holy Spirit working in us.
We will focus on the theme of ‘Missionary Discipleship’ and help the children understand how they can actively ‘do God’s work here on Earth’…
Jubilee 2025
From 1st Sunday in Advent 2023 we are preparing for the Jubilee 2025. So our focus will change in preparation for this as follows:
Year of Preparation & Prayer – Encounter – First Sunday of Advent (3rd December 2023) – Christmas Eve morning (24th December 2024);
• Year of Jubilee 2025 – Discipleship – Christmas Eve evening (24th December 2024) – Epiphany (6th January 2026);
• Year of Thanksgiving – Missionary Discipleship – Post-Epiphany (7th January 2026) – end of ordinary time (28th November 2026).
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Whole School Retreat Days are a very important and valued part of our school life. Held every half term, they have a specific theme, generally linking with Catholic Social Teaching principles, our School Virtues, the School Mission Statement or an Eco Curriculum theme, linked with Pope Francis’ letter ‘Laudato Si’.
Each Retreat Day involves a Liturgical Prayer, generally led and prepared by Chaplaincy Team members, time for reflection and activities linked to the theme within classes, Prayer Stations for the children to visit, led and prepared by the Chaplaincy Team and an afternoon ‘Big Sing’ in church where each phase presents their reflections to the rest of the school, with much singing in between!
In line with our Synod action points, we invite parents to attend the Big Sing and members of our wider school community including Governors and Parishioners. It is the highlight of the half term!
Please see images below which give a flavour of the kind of activities that are on offer…
At Holy Trinity, we value opportunities for Pupil Leadership and have several ‘Catholic Life Ambassador’ Groups who lead various activities and support other children in a variety of ways. Each group’s mission is driven by a Catholic Social Teaching principle, and groups meet regularly with lead staff to promote these principles and make sure that our school is a happy, safe and respectful place to be.
School Council – Subsidiarity
Chaplaincy Team – Common Good and Distributive Justice (Fair Trade)
House Captains – Option for the Poor
Eco Team – Stewardship
Respect Rangers – Human Dignity
Take 5 Ambassadors – Human Dignity
Play Leaders – Promoting Peace
Peer Mentors – Promoting Peace
Agents for Change – Solidarity
International Ambassadors – Participation
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