Benjamin and Maisie are our RE Ambassadors  who help promote the importance of Religious Education across the school. They act as positive role models by showing respect for different beliefs, encouraging thoughtful discussion, and supporting activities linked to faith, values, and reflection. They help organise special events, share ideas for worship, help monitor aspects of RE and gather the views of other pupils about RE lessons.

Mary’s Meals is a global charity that provides daily, nutritious meals to over 3 million children in 16 of the world’s poorest countries while they attend school. Founded in 2002 by Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, the organization aims to attract hungry children into the classroom, providing both food and an education to help break the cycle of poverty.

Anna visited school to talk to the children and to ask for our help during the Lenten season.

During the season of Lent, the children will be taking part in a special Lenten Prayer Trail at home. This will give them time to reflect, pray and think about the meaning of Lent.

Each child will take home a simple Lenten Prayer and activity to share as a family. We hope this will provide a lovely opportunity for families to spend a few moments together in prayer and reflection during this important season in the Church’s year.

The day began by celebrating Mass with Father Peter with Parish and family members joining us.  The peaceful Mass was a lovely way to start the day; Father taught the children about the life of St. Clement and many children took part in the service by reading, singing or producing artwork to decorate the altar area.

During the school day, each class part in activities linked to the life of St. Clements. After lunch, we came together to enjoy ‘St. Clement’s Has Got Talent’.  This event was thoroughly enjoyed by the children and the staff.

We were honoured to have the Mayor of Halton joining us for this very special day.

On Sunday, 9th November, some of our children joined Mrs Hodgkins and other members of staff to present a wreath from the St. Clement’s community at the Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph in Runcorn. 

We also held our own service, ran by children from YR to Y6, and gathered as a whole school community with Michelle Buckley, Chair of Governors at 11am on Tuesday 11th November.

Our families were very generous with their Harvest donations they sent in for our local Food Bank. Each class performed either a poem, some prayers, or songs and year 6 danced with great enthusiasm and confidence to our new Reception parents. There was a lovely school family atmosphere! Our new children performed a song with their year 6 buddy to end the event.

On Sunday, 10th November, some of our children joined Mrs Hodgkins and other members of staff to present a wreath from the St. Clement’s community at the Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph in Runcorn.

We also held our own service, ran by children from YR to Y6, and gathered as a whole school community at 11am on Monday 11th November.

Holy Week

During Holy Week each KS2 class led a Collective Worship session for their families.  Each class told one part of the Holy Week story whilst the others watched with parents/carers who came into school.  Y3 dramatised the  ‘Entry into Jerusalem’ and Y4 told the story around the ‘Garden of Gethsemane’ through thought provoking prayers.  Y5 set up ‘The Last Supper’ with props and costume and many parents attended this session.  Y6 were extremely adventurous and had dramatised the ‘Stations of the Cross’ outside in costume with accompanying narrative.  Next year, we pray that the weather is on our side too!

Other celebrations of prayer were our Lenten Lunch and the ‘Labyrinth’ prayer session set up by Mrs Essex.

Mission Week

Miss McNicholas has organised 2 special weeks during the Summer Term to celebrate our school values.  Week 1, ‘Let’s Open Our Hearts’ has taken place, May 20th to 22nd. We spent three days committing time and activities to exploring three of our school values. 

New member of staff, Mrs Owen, said, “I have thoroughly enjoyed this week focussing on school values.” The next school Mission Week is planned for July 8th to 10th and is called ‘Let your Light Shine’.

Remembrance

We joined together as a whole school community for a special Remembrance Assembly led by some members of Year 6 and Mrs Hodgkins. Two minutes silence was observed beautifully. In addition, Michelle Buckley and three members of Year 6 attended the local service at the War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday where they laid a wreathe provided by us a school.

R.E INSET Day

We joined with the local Catholic schools at The Holy Spirit School to listen to David Wells, an inspirational Catholic speaker.

It was lovely to come together as a whole staff and talk about what makes our  school so distinctive.