January – Jubilee Year of Hope launch
Our CAFOD Club led the launch in song and prayer about the Jubilee Year of Hope. Gathered together we looked at how scripture and the Catholic Social Teaching principles can guide us to bring hope to those who most need it.
February – St. Jude’s Community
We asked our families to help us find out about their culture and where they come from. Then we gathered all this wonderful information and displayed it on our map to show how diverse we are as a school community, bringing hope locally and globally.
March – The Big Lent Walk
We participated in The Big Lent Walk and raised money for CAFOD to help those most in need in our global community.
April – Jubilee Day of Colour
Everyone came to school dressed in the Jubilee colours to brighten up our school and show everyone how WE can bring hope to others. Children had the opportunity to do self-portraits and think about how they can be a pilgrim of hope as well as thinking about people in our local and global community and how they have brought hope to people near and far!
May – Letters to the Poorly
Year 4 and Year 5 wrote letters of hope to the sick in hospital. Year 4 wrote letters and delivered them to patients at Wigan Hospital and they were asked to read a letter aloud which had such a positive impact on the patients. Year 5 chose to write letters to patients at Children’s Alder Hey hospital as it is very close to their hearts.
June – Jubilee Pledge
The whole school participated in the Jubilee Pledge. Each class spent time exploring what they could promise to do using the CAFOD resources and then our CAFOD Club led a prayer and liturgy where a representative from each class shared their class pledge. Mrs Jackson even pinned our school on the Jubilee Map on the CAFOD website.
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!
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!
Year 6 enjoyed creating self-portraits of themselves and also of the people who they feel inspire hope in others.
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.
