Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Catholic First School
Our Faith
February 2012
On Thursday 9th February we had a Mass for Year 3.
The theme of the Mass was forgiveness.
January 2012
To celebrate the ,'Feast of the Epiphany,' we had a whole school Mass on January 6th.
It was a wonderful way to celebrate as a whole school community.
Year 3 enjoyed hot seating activities in class to find out how the Kings felt when they saw Jesus.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is undergoing re-furbishment and decoration so for safety reasons it cannot be used. In the meantime all Masses and Services are taking place as normal in St. George's Church which is just a five minute walk down the hill from Mount Carmel Church.
Mass Times
Sunday 11.30 a.m.
The Polish Mass is at 2.45 p.m.
Although the Feast of the Presentation/Candlemas is not officially celebrated until 2nd February, we had a Mass for Year 2 - 4 and a Service for Early Years and Year 1 on January 26th.
December 2011
During Advent each class has taken some time to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. The children in Key Stage 2 have enjoyed the Advent edition of the ,'Wednesday Word,' and all the children have received,'The Walk with me Advent Calendars.'
Year 2 enjoyed making Advent Wreaths and Advent Promises in class.
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Every class has enjoyed raising money for ,'CAFOD,' to help make a huge difference in developing countries.
Each class has chosen a World Gift:
Early Years - A pair of piglets and chickens,
Year 1- A goat, pair of piglets and chickens,
Year 2- A shrimp pond, school starter kit, a teach a child to read kit and a football experience,
Year 3- Make a child smile and a goat and
Year 4- Pair of piglets, emergency and a refuge kit.
November 2011
On Monday we had a visit from Shirley Butcher a representative from Operation Christmas Child.
Operation Christmas Child is the largest children's Christmas project in the world, run by the Christian charity Samaritan's Purse. They have been sending gift-filled shoeboxes to disadvantaged children around the world since 1990, bringing joy into the lives of over 80 million children.
From your hands into theirs...
Giving a shoebox gift is really quite simple. You wrap and pack it and send it into school before November 18th.
October 2011
Harvest
CAFOD Assemblies
On Friday 7th October, Jane lavery a local CAFOD representative inspired us to help children around the world achieve their dreams. We are going to help by giving something up next week and we will then donate the money we have saved to CAFOD.
Harvest Gifts
Thank you for joining us at the Mass for Key Stage Two and the Service for Key Stage One and Early Years with Father Craig and Deacon Des on Thursday 6th October. There was a wonderful display of harvest gifts donated by the children. The Year 4 children have proudly made up harvest bags and they then distributed the bags to the local elderly and the Salvation Army.
Richard Reynolds from the Salvation Army came into school and was delighted to receive the gifts from representatives of each year group.
September 2011
Assembly with Father Eddie
On Friday 16th September Father Eddie spoke to the children in Key Stage 2 about his recent visit to Mtwara. He told us all about the schools he visited and we were lucky enough to watch a video of him presenting the prayer mat that was made by the children who are now in Year 4. The children in Year 4 were very excited to receive letters from the children and teachers in Mtwara and we look forward to learning lots about our new friends.
The children in Key Stage Two are all in a House Group. We have four House Groups and they are:
Galilee, Nazareth, Jerusalem and Emmaus.
All the House Groups were important places during the life of Jesus.
Can you find Galilee, Nazareth and Jerusalem on the map of the Holy Land?
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Look at the pictures of the children receiving a badge to represent the House Group they are in.
Emmaus
Nazareth
Galilee
Jerusalem
The Wednesday Word
The Wednesday Word is a double sided A4 leaflet that the children in Year 3 and Year 4 will bring home every Wednesday. The leaflet will support you to prepare your son or daughter for the Gospel at Mass on the following Sunday.
Click on the link at the bottom of the page to find out more.
At the end of term Mass, Father Eddie wore the marvellous stole which was designed by the children. The winners were from Early Years and the children have based their pictures on Noah's Ark.
The winners were Maud Read, Grace Hodgson, Brooke Mandefield, Beatrice Mundy, Thomas Price and Jessica Baldwin.
Catholic Life - Photographs
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Hall Display Christmas 2011 (250KB)
Hall Display Christmas 2011 (231KB)
Hall Display Christmas 2011 (226KB)
Hall Display Christmas 2011 (259KB)
Hall Display Christmas 2011 (204KB)
Shoebox Appeal 2011 (257KB)
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Shoebox Appeal 2011 (126KB)
Shoebox Assembly 2011 (224KB)
Shoebox Assembly 2011 (218KB)
CAFOD Assembly for Key Stage One and Early Years (234KB)
We learnt how we can help. (213KB)
We all think we can give something up. (128KB)
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CAFOD Assembly Key Stage Two October 2011 (239KB)
Father Eddie wearing the stole July 2011 (265KB)
We watched the video of Father Eddie in Mtwara. (220KB)
Father Eddie presented us with a drum from Mtwara. (125KB)
Assembly with Father Eddie September 2011 (123KB)
Palm Sunday Display by Year 2 2011 (177KB)
The Last Supper Display by Year 3 2011 (172KB)
The Garden of Gethsemane Display by Year 4 2011 (167KB)
The Empty Tomb Display 2011 by Early Years (166KB)
The Resurrection Display 2011 by Year 1. (166KB)
Easter Display 2011 by Early Years (142KB)
We supported the Chengeta School Project.Lent 2011 (258KB)
Mr.Noonan talked to us about how we could help. (210KB)
Every Year Group raised money during Lent 2011. (194KB)
We were all inspired to fill a shoe box. 10/2010 (249KB)
We learnt how we could help. October 2010 (127KB)
Finding out about the Shoe Box Appeal October 2010 (130KB)
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First Holy Communion Day 2011
On Sunday June 19th forty five children made their First Holy Communion at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Have a look at some of the photographs bel...
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