Year 7 Retreat Day
It is always a great pleasure to be with the Year 7 students for the retreat day to enhance the Catholic Life of the School. This is a great opportunity for students to broaden their knowledge, ask questions and to take part in their first Mass together in school. The students were all so enthusiastic as we spent the day learning about the Church, meeting and interviewing two of our parish priests and watching the National Assembly from CAFOD which will inspire our October fundraising across the school.
Despite a very short time for rehearsing, our Mass with Fr Simon, Fr Paul and Mark, gave a real sense of community and togetherness. As one student commented ‘it was good for a first time together’. We look forward to growing in knowledge and spirit as time goes on.
Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But X has secrets – her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed. And a slam poetry club that will pull those secrets into the spotlight. Because in spite of a world that might not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to stay silent.
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