Harvest Thanksgiving Mass

Today Canon McNally led our Harvest Mass in thanksgiving for all that we have. We also welcomed a visitor from the Community Grocery to explain how our food donations would help those in need in our local community.

🌎❤️ World Kindness Day ❤️ 🌎

In preschool today we decided to show people in our school environment how much we care about them. 🥰 We made some lovely cards and brought some delicious chocolates. Then we went around school showing random acts of kindness to others. 🥰

🔴🟡Children in Need 🟢🔵

Thank you to everyone who participated and donated to our Children in Need non-uniform day last Friday. We raised £107 which we have today sent to Children in Need. Well done everyone ☺️

Spreading Christmas Cheer

🎼🎅During this festive season, our St. Jude’s School Choir have been spreading Christmas cheer throughout the community.

🎤❄The children were invited to perform at St Jude’s Social Club during their weekly ‘Wednesday Warm and Cosy’, where the choir sang a variety of songs they have been preparing for their upcoming concert in March, as well as Christmas carols. They also visited the local retirement home, St. Clements Court, and performed Christmas songs for the residents, who generously gave the children a selection box as a gift. 🎄

Christmas Cards for the Community

As the choir were going to sing at the local retirement home, Year 6 made Christmas cards to give to the residents. The people of St Clements Court were very grateful for the kind gesture.

Year 1 RE craft sale

Year 1 looked at how Christmas is celebrated in Poland. We made crafts and sold them to our families. To entice parents to our stalls we re-enacted the Christmas story. We raised £28 and bought Christmas World Gifts from CAFOD to bring love, joy, hope and peace to our global family this Christmas.

Year 4 NSPCC Number Day!

We have enjoyed taking part in NSPCC’s Number Day on TTRS today!

Jubilee Year of Hope launch

At St. Jude’s we have officially launched the Jubilee Year of Hope. During this Jubilee Year Pope Francis has called us all to bring hope to those most vulnerable in society. At St. Jude’s we are excited to take on this challenge and give back to our local and global community.

Y1 Big Lent Walk

For our Lent Walk this week, Y1 went on a Spring walk around the school grounds to observe the changes that occur when Spring arrives. We saw blue skies, new bulbs and even some birds nests. We talked to Mr Keen about the changes Spring brings and why he has covered up the vegetables and bulbs that have just been planted.

The Big Lent Walk

Reception went on their Big Lent Walk around the school grounds.

Y3 Easter Raffle

As part of our RE topic, Year 3 was asked to come up with an action to show how they live in God’s image. Year 3 decided to raise money for charity to show this. They discussed different ways they could raise money and decided to make their own Easter hamper and sell raffle tickets. They agreed to donate the money to the Good shepherd.

Year 3 have raised an amazing £231.

Year 6 Big Lent Walk

Year 6 have walked around the local area to the canal as part of our Big Lent Walk enjoying the glorious sunshine.

Easter Baskets

During Spring 2, in RE, Reception class learned about different traditions that take place during Lent. The children learned about a tradition in Poland, this is where baskets containing a sampling of Easter foods are brought to church to be blessed on Holy Saturday. The basket is traditionally lined with a white linen or lace napkin and decorated with sprigs of boxwood (bukszpan), the typical Easter evergreen. As a class we decided to make a class basket to share with the local foodbank. The children donated packets and tins of food to contribute to the Easter basket.

Good Shepherd Mass

Today we visited Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral for the Good Shepherd Mass. We were so proud of the five children who read the bidding prayers. All children represented St. Jude’s in a fantastic way. Then, to our complete surprise, Archbishop Sherrington spotted us taking a photo outside the Cathedral and decided to join us. What an experience for our children!

Letters of Hope delivered to Wigan hospital

Today, children from Y4 hand delivered letters of hope, which they had written, to patients at Wigan Hospital. Such an inspirational morning which really did bring hope and a smile to everyone. Well done Y4!

Bringing Hope to Alder Hey Children’s hospital

Year 5 wrote letters of hope which were hand delivered by Bobby whilst he was there to see his wonderful doctors at Alder Hey. Such inspirational letters to bring a joy to other children. Well done Year 5!

Generosity from Chelsea and her family

When our children leave St. Jude’s we hope they are equipped to become caring and thoughtful individuals who can contribute positively to society… we can certainly say that a past pupil of last year, Chelsea, has achieved this. She visited school this week with donations, which Chelsea and her family have done since she became a pupil at St. Jude’s. These donations are given to families who are less fortunate than us. What an act of kindness from Chelsea and her family!

Year 4 – Giving to those less fortunate

As part of our Prayer and Liturgy to celebrate the new Pope, Year 4 decided that they would like to honour him by collecting toiletries for those less fortunate than themselves. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of our families. Today we delivered these donations to our local family hub. Well done Year 4.

Living Simply and Sustainably

Again this year the children planted vegetables in our vegetable garden and they were able to harvest them yesterday. All vegetables were sold for a donation and the proceeds will go to a charity chosen by our CAFOD Club. At St. Jude’s we strive to continue our Live Simply journey.

Harvest Celebration

Today we gave thanks for the Harvest. Children helped throughout the mass and we welcomed Fr. Michael to lead his first mass with us. We were also lucky enough to have a representative from Community Grocery to tell us all about how our donations will help in the local community.

Y3 Funding Raising

Year 3 raised money for CAFOD by selling cakes.

They raised an amazing £119.29

Carol singing at our local nursing home this Advent

Our choir had a wonderful afternoon singing carols at St. Clements and spreading joy to the elderly in our local community. A wonderful way to spread Christmas cheer to all.

Year 4 – Letters of Hope

As it comes to the end of the Jubilee Year of Hope, children in Year 4 decided that they would like to do something special to bring hope to others. During our first week of Advent, as we remember the hope and light Jesus brings, they chose to write letters to the patients of Wigan Hospital to send a bit of light and love to them.

Year 4 – Letters of Hope

We delivered our letters of Hope to Wigan Hospital. We met some of the lovely staff that work there and the children who delivered the letters we’re able to personally take them to some of the wards. The children read one of the letters to the staff and even sang ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ along with sign language. We hope that they can bring light and Hope to the patients.

Y2 deliver cards to Antcliffe spreading Christmas Joy

Y2 have been thinking about how the shepherds were the first to visit Jesus which shows us that Jesus always tended to the most needy first. So, Y2 decided to make Christmas cards for the elderly in our local community. A lovely morning was spent spreading Christmas joy as the cards were delivered

Donation to Mary’s Meals

Mr O’Brien, a former St Jude’s governor, has again kindly audited our School Fund accounts. Mr O’Brien declined any payment or gift for his services and asked us instead to donate to his chosen charity, ‘Mary’s Meals’.

Mary’s Meals provides life-changing school meals to children living in some of the world’s poorest communities. The promise of a good meal brings hungry children into the classroom, where they can gain an education and better opportunities for the future. We have made a school donation of £57.45, which will buy three children meals for a whole school year.

Thank you Mr O’Brien and thank you Mary’s Meals for the great work you do.

Donating to CAFOD Christmas World Gifts

Following the success of our Christmas Message Board where families donated money and wrote their Christmas message instead of sending individual cards, CAFOD Club chose World Gifts. During one of their sessions, CAFOD Club shared the reasons for choosing each of these gifts. This is what they chose to help those in our global family who are less fortunate than us.

Wigan and Leigh Hospice

During the Christmas period our school council sold reindeer gifts to help raise money for Wigan and Leigh Hospice. Well done to everyone who helped!