Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Catholic Primary School
Chaplaincy Team
Chaplaincy Team 2024 - 2025
Long Term Plan for Virtue to Live By Themes
Virtue to Live By Assemblies
At Our Lady's, the children try their best to live by the virtues that help them live a holy life. Each week, they are encouraged to explore a virtue and show that they have lived by it through their actions. The virtue is on display in the classroom and throughout the week, the children are encouraged to add examples of how their have shown this virtue.
During our Virtue to Live By assemblies, the Chapliancy Team help the children to review their actions towards each virtue.
The Chaplaincy Team lead Virtues to Live By assemblies on Mondays for the whole school.
Virtue 1: Love of Learning
Our first Virtue to Live By is: Love of Learning - I am a life long learner. I am excited and enthusiastic to learn.
"Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance.” Proverbs 1:5
Signs you have a love of learning:
I want to learn new things
I am excited and enthusiastic to learn
I enjoy learning
I am open minded
I give time to my learning
I always search for the truth
I know what I want to achieve
Virtue 2: Citizenship
Our second Virtue to Live By is: I am a good citizen. I show love for my neighbour through my actions.
“Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.” Hebrews 13:14; 16
Signs you are a good citizen:
I show love for my neighbour through my actions
I am part of my community
I make a positive difference
I look for opportunities to serve others
I am proactive
I play my part to look after the environment
Virtue 3: Prayer
Our third Virtue to Live By is: I grow in friendship with God through prayer.
“Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” Jeremiah, 29:12
Signs you are prayerful:
I spend time with God
I listen to God
I rest in His presence
I tell God I love Him
I grow in friendship with God
I pray from the heart
Virtue 4: Generosity
Our first Virtue to Live By is:
Our fourth Virtue to live By is: I am generous. I think of others and notice when they need help.
"Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance.” Proverbs 1:5
Signs you are generous:
You notice when someone needs help.
You think of others before yourself.
You give freely without need of reward.
You give more than what is expected.
You are willing to make sacrifices for others.
Gospel Assemblies
The Chaplaincy Team help to deliver Gospel assemblies every week; these take place on Wednesdays. The Chaplaincy Team work with the class teachers to organise resources, lead role-play and hotseating activities, meditation and song.
Mass in school
The Chaplaincy Team help to plan and deliver school-based Mass. We provide the children with a Mass planning template. The children work together to make decisions about the hymns and readings they would like to include in Mass, they explore the meaning of the gospel, write the bidding prayers and give out roles.
Welcome Mass 2024
Mass to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception 2024
Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany 2025
The Chaplaincy Team dramatised the gospel during our Epiphany Mass
Chaplaincy Team planning for the Feast of the Epiphany 2025
Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany 2024
Leavers' Mass 2024
Classroom Prayer Areas
Each classroom has a dedicated, liturigcally themed prayer area. These areas include our school prayers and the also other key prayers that the children know. Each dedicated prayer area includes a large crucifix and other objects that the children can focus on during prayer such as pebbles, guardian angel stones, candles, religious artefacts, prayer books and a Bible. We are also lucky enough to have a dedicated prayer area outside; this is called Our Lady's Prayer Garden.
Advent Wreaths 2023
Last year, the Chaplaincy Team worked together to make each class an Advent Wreath and they also made wreaths and for the hall and main entrance to school. The Chalpaincy Team led our Blessing of The Advent Wreath Liturgy. The wreaths were blessed by Father Emmanuel with Holy Water.
During Advent, the wreaths formed the focal point for Collective Worship each day; the children gathered around the wreath and lit each candle in turn as Advent progressed.
Our Chaplaincy Team worked together to create Advent Wreaths for each of the classrooms, the church and our school hall.
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The Blessing of the Advent Wreaths 2024
The Chaplaincy Team helped to prepare our Travelling Cribs
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