This week is Refugee Week.  

Staff began their INSET Day with a short reflection and prayer service and every class in the Junior School has watched a video about why refugees leave their homes. https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Primary-teaching-resources/Refugee-resources Each year on June 20, the world celebrates World Refugee Day. A day to honour refugees around the world who show strength and resilience as they are forced to flee their homes. This year, the focus of World Refugee Day will be on the right to seek safety. Every person has a right to seek safety – whoever they are, wherever they come from and whenever they are forced to flee. Pope Francis has called on us as Catholics to welcome migrants and refugees with arms wide open and we have prayed for these brothers and sisters who we might never meet.

Throughout the month of May, we pray most especially to Our Lady, asking her to intercede for us with her Son, Jesus. At the Infant School we were delighted to welcome Bishop Paul Hendricks to say Mass for the Crowning of Mary, and the Junior School shared a special Crowning of Mary liturgy. Both schools shared a reflection for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord and as we go towards the Feast of Pentecost which marks the end of Eastertide we remember that Jesus is always with us through the Holy Spirit.