3rd October News from our Parish Schools
- Durham Martyrs Parish
- Oct 3
- 2 min read
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
We would like to thank everyone in the school and parish community for their generous donations who supported the Macmillan Coffee Morning in school. It was a resounding success, and we are delighted to say that we raised £200 for such an amazing charity and another £65 from the raffle for St Cuthbert's Care.
On Monday 6th October our youngest children would love your prayers as they start the beginning of their learning journey. Nursery and Reception would like to invite friends and families to the Welcome Liturgy at 9am. All are welcome to attend.
On Friday 10th October it is World Mental Health Day and we will all be wearing yellow to show children and young people they’re not alone with their mental health. The children will be raising money to install a 'Happy to Chat' bench in the school yard and to ' TURN THE BENCH YELLOW' . This will encourage people to sit down and have a conversation with others. These benches give people an opportunity to connect and interact with each other. Our next aim is to install ' Happy to Chat' benches along the driveway for our friends and families to enjoy.
At 2.45pm on Friday 10th October we would like to invite friends and families to school for a Harvest Festival Celebration of the Word. Any donations of hats, scarves and gloves would be kindly received and donated to Sanctuary 21 to support the vulnerable people in and around the North East.
St Godric's Catholic Primary School
We welcome some of our Year 4 children and their families to Mass this weekend as we start our First Holy communion preparation. The children will then attend their first catechist led session on Monday after school.'
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School
St. Thomas More School are looking for some volunteers amongst the catechists or parishioners to help run some sessions to Year 4, ahead of their First Holy Communion Preparation. These sessions would be run every few weeks, after school, from 3:30pm until 4:30pm. The idea behind them is to extend the children's learning and knowledge (from what they learn in the school curriculum) about the blessed Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Please contact St. Thomas More school office (0191 386 4761) for more information, or if you think you could assist.
St Leonard's Catholic Secondary School
Our Holistic Curriculum focus next week is ‘Mental: Awareness of how to help ourselves mentally’. As part of this focus Mrs Stewart will be doing assemblies on aspirations and how these can bring us a positive and confidence frame of mind.
We mark World Mental Health Day in school on Friday 10th October. Our Year 13 tutor groups will also celebrate their pupil led Celebration of the Word on Monday morning which ties into the Holistic theme on ‘Hope and healing’.
We also have our Sixth Form Opening Evening on Thursday 9th October from 6pm. All those who are interested in attending our Sixth Form are welcome to come and see our amazing departments and achievements.
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