Blog by Tag: Laudato Si' Group

Year 5 have had a great time working in our Garden of Peace over the last few days, constructing the Willow Hide and Willow fencing. A big thank you to Mia and Helen the Willow Weaver for teaching us the intricate weaving techniques to attach the branches together. We are all excited to see it…

The Laudato Si group was shocked to discover that around 2,000 glue sticks from each school end up in landfill sites every year. In response, we reached out to Mrs. Smith to propose the use of recyclable glue sticks. We're pleased to share that all the glue has arrived, and we're excited to start…

Year 5 have had a busy day preparing the ground and planting trees in our school grounds. They learnt that the trees need to be a metre away from the fence and in each metre there are 6 trees which are a mixture of native trees including birch, holly and hawthorn. The spirals have been added to…

Year 3 were providing a sustainable environment for their school.

During Recycling Week 2024, a warning was issued highlighting that households are wasting an astonishing 1 billion items each year that could be recycled. To promote greater recycling efforts, our Laudato Si group organised a recycling poster competition. We received an amazing response from the…

Congratulations to Layla and Bobbie for winning the design for our new garden which will also house a grotto for Mary. The  children were asked to create a garden with a holy theme where we can all go to relax and reflect. We were impressed with all of the entries and all the children received a…

Year 3 went into Egremont today to identify the human and physical features. They found lots more human than physical features and decided that they expected that because it was a town. 
Whilst looking for these features, they did a good litter pick. They brought back 2 bags full. Well done Year…

Mollie and Jaxon won the poster competition to create a poster that encouraged people to look after all of God’s Creations. We heard and reflected on St. Francis’ Canticle of the sun. We used this to help us to create posters that promote co-creators instead of de-creators. There was lots of great…

This week Reception have been learning about St Francis, as his feast day is on the 4th October. We learnt that he loved all of God’s creations and cared for our environment. We talked about how we could show love and care for animals and then made our own animal homes that could home an animal.…

As part of the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, Year 6 read the Prayer of St Francis of Assisi ‘ Make me a channel of your peace’ We talked about what the words mean to us and then listened to the hymn of the same name and reflected on the message of St Francis of Assisi. We then considered the…

Today Year 1 celebrated the life of St. Francis.  They learned about what made him special. Year 1 created their own animal stick puppets to celebrate his love of animals and nature. 
 

Year 2 celebrated St Francis’ Feast Day with a class prayer and liturgy focused on him and what the Bible says about caring for animals. The children spent time finding out all about his life and the good works that he did. They found out that he is the patron saint of animals and loving and…