St Anne's Catholic Primary School

INTENT

As a Catholic community, prayer and liturgy is fundamental to living out our Christian ethos. We aim to ensure that all children are given the opportunity to grow in spiritual awareness and to develop their relationship with God.

IMPLEMENTATION

As well as daily class prayers, we participate in the following collective worship each week:

Monday - Gospel Liturgy

Tuesday - Key Stage Liturgy on Catholic Social Teaching

Wednesday - Class Liturgy on Catholic virtues

Thursday - Extended prayer including Rosary, Christian Meditation or Lectio Divina

Friday - Mass or period of reflection and prayer

We also come together with our parish community to celebrate Masses on Holy Days of Obligation.

IMPACT

Our Faith binds us, inspires us and guides us.

SCHOOL PRAYER

This is our school prayer, written by an ex-pupil, Chantelle Bassey

Prayer to St Anne

O glorious St Anne, mother of Mary, filled with love and compassion, protect us and guide us and give us your blessing.

O wonderful St Anne, who conceived the Mother of Jesus, pray for us and help us always to live by faith and to be known by love.

PRAYER LIFE

This year, we are focussing on progression in prayer and making sure that our prayer life develops year on year.  We learn different traditional prayers every half term and children in KS2 learn to lead class liturgy.  We also love to write our own prayers and offer them at our class prayer table.

VIRTUES AND VALUES

Each term, we focus on different Catholic virtues and values.

In Autumn 1, 2023 we are focussing on being generous and grateful.  This means we reflect on God's generosity and on how much we have to be grateful for.  

CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING

We are also reflecting on the Catholic Social Teachings of Participation/Family and Community and on the Dignity of the Human Person.

Both our virtues and our Catholic Social Teaching link closely to the RE focus for many year groups this term - Creation!

BIG QUESTIONS

We also like to think about the Big Questions in life.

OUR PRAYER BOARD 

Please email Mrs Bernto on head@st-annes.reading.sch.uk if you would like us to add a name to the prayer board.

At this time, we ask you to hold in your prayers:

Amen