Last week we were excited to celebrate our Mission Day with the theme of The Common Good. This theme comes from Catholic Social Teaching and is one of the aims for how we live our lives. What we do should benefit as many people as possible so not only do we care for those we love and care about, we should care for those in the wider community and in the wider world. You will see many examples of this in the newsletter this week.
We were delighted to welcome back Nicola from CAFOD to work with our Year 9 students. They were looking at how what we do to support people in other countries, benefits them on a long term basis and gives them a future they may not otherwise have. Her visit linked into the Year 7 students and their Walk for Water, which will benefit CAFOD’s work to achieve access to safe water to as many people as possible.
I was able to take some of our year 11 students to the warehouse of the Mid-Cheshire Foodbank to see what happens to our donations once they leave the school. Students were surprised at how organised and involved it was to ensure that thousands of people were helped, just in our local area. They even helped with making up recipe bags for Shrove Tuesday in a couple of weeks time. It was lovely to come back to school to see boxes of donations made by Year 10 for their entry to the Bingo event. I will arrange to take these items to the Foodbank in the near future.

These examples show how everything is linked together and it is by working as a community, and with the community, that change can happen. Thank you to parents and carers for encouraging and supporting our students to make the most of the day. Thanks to all staff St Nicholas, speakers and visitors who helped to make it such as success.