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Key dates for the academic and liturgical year

• 4 October 2024: Harvest Family Fast Day

• 28 November 2024: Advent national assembly for primary schools

• 29 November 2024: Deadline for Get Creative for Climate Justice art submissions

• 2025: Year of Jubilee - Pilgrims of Hope

• 14 March 2025: Lent Family Fast Day

• 15 March 2025: Flame

The year of Jubilee 2025

https://www.liverpoolcatholic.org.uk/department/pastoral-development/jubilee

Friday 24 Jan 2025 - Jubilee launch day for schools

June or July 2025 - Jubilee pledge day: Schools are invited to reflect on their mission and choose a date to commit to stand in solidarity with the poorest communities, sharing hope and challenging injustice by pledging to take concrete actions to make their community, country and world a better place.

Friday 21 November 2025 - Jubilee finale: Celebrating the end of the Jubilee year and looking ahead with hope.

St Theresa's Mass

On Tuesday 1st October, the whole school visited church to celebrate St Theresa's Feast Day with a celebratory Mass. We clebrated Mass with Father Phil.   Year 6 led the Mass and our Reception class received a special blessing and welcome from Father. The whole school said a prayer asking God to bless our new Reception class and to help them to 'do the little things well'. Our head children and pupil forum representatives were also announced and celebrated. It was lovely to be in church once again with Father and to sing some of our favourite hymns!

Quarantore

40 hours continuous prayer before the blessed sacrament.

Week beginning 30th September, each class will visit St Theresa's Church to worship and pray before the blessed sacrament (the consecrated sacramental bread and wine) which was exposed (displayed) in the monstrance on the altar. 

The children were very excited to be able to visit church once again. Church was beautifully decorated because of St Theresa's Feast Day on the 1st October.

FUND RAISING

On Tuesday 15th October we held a Macmillan Coffee Afternoon - parents and grandparents were invited into school and were able to buy cakes and have a cup of tea.  Our School Council along with our head children organised the afternoon with their teachers.  It was a successful afternoon and raised money for an important charity.

Remembrance Day Assembly

On 8th November, Year 5 led our school assembly to commemorate Armistice Day. The assembly was a beautiful reminder of why it is important that we remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedom and who strove to protect us. 

Each week during Advent, Year 4 will be leading our whole school prayer and liturgy. It is a special time for us to learn more about the season of Advent and the special meaning of each week and the candle that we light. 

Well done Year 4! You led our worship beautifully!