School pilgrimage to celebrate the Jubilee Year

Last week, we held a school pilgrimage to celebrate the Jubilee Year. The school visited prayer stations around the school before a final celebration in St Joseph's Church.

Looking at wars since World War 2

For international Peace Day, Year 5 have been looking at the location of wars since WW2. We quickly realised there were so many wars it would take too long to locate them all. 

Peace day - refugees

For Peace Day, Year 5 have been studying refugees. We built refugee tents to highlight the number of refugees fleeing war and persecution. Refugees are forced to leave their homes behind and travel to a new country, often to set up home at a refugee camp with tents.

Cafod Assembly

This morning, we had a special Cafod assembly. We found out about all the amazing things Cafod does to help people around the world. This year our charity fundraising will be for Cafod.

Water walk

 

Water Walk

From the 16^th June onwards classes will be taking part in a water walk for charity.

This will be as part of the Year of Jubilee and another event to mark the centenary of St Joseph’s Church.

The children will be walking laps carrying a bottle of water they feel comfortable with but is also a challenge. To mark the church’s centenary and to set a challenge, the children will be aiming for 100 laps (as a class or group) of the field or playground.

All the money raised goes to our school charity the Emmaus (Clifton Diocese Schools) project. This event will also bring an end to our charity work for this project. Please if possible make a donation to this charity event by handing in a donation with your child or there is an option to make a donation by School Gateway. If you select ‘payments’ from the account and then from the payments list choose: ’St Joseph’s Uganda Charity’.

For more information on the charity see our school website https://www.st-josephs-pri.bristol.sch.uk/Clifton-Diocese-Schools-Project/    

Confession

Children in Y6, Y5 & Y4 were given the opportunity to go to confession to help them in their Lent preparations.

Holy Week Prayer Stations

This week classes have been visiting Holy Week Prayer Stations.

Centenary Challenges

To celebrate 100 years of St Joseph’s Church and to coincide with the Jubilee we undertook various 100 challenges. Each of these challenges was an act of Catholic Social Teaching.

The Reception Class made 100 gingerbread men. These were given away to friends and family as an act of kindness.

Year 1 undertook 100 acts of kindness.

Year 2 wrote and hung 100 messages of hope on a school playground tree.

Year 3 made 100 paper candles containing messages of hope.

Year 4 collected 100 items for our local food bank.

Based on a famous Japanese story during the time of the Hiroshima bomb, Year 5 made 100 paper cranes for peace.

Year 6 planted over 100 seeds.

The Chaplaincy Team collected over 100 pieces of rubbish.