Collective Worship
Gospel Celebration of the Word - Week beginning 13th October 2025
Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In our Gospel Celebration of the Word, we heard Jesus talking about the importance of saying "Thank you" . We heard the story of the ten men who Jesus healed, but only one returned to say thank you. We talked about how lucky we are and all the wonderful gifts we receive from God and how important it is to say thank you to God and each other.
Loving Lord, help us to remember all the good things we have which come from you. Fill our hearts with thanks and praise. Help us to always say thank you to God and thank you to each other. Amen
October - the Month of the Rosary
October is the month of the Holy Rosary. We have been praying decades of the Rosary as a whole school and classes. Our beautiful reflection garden guides us in our prayers as we remember and celebrate the life of Our Lady.
Meet our Prayer Leaders
Class Masses - Autumn Term 2025
This term Father Michael has invited each class to celebrate Mass with the St Joseph's Parish. This has been very special and our children have enjoyed singing and praying with our parish family
May: The Month of Mary
During the month of May, we have been celebrating and honouring Mary, our Mother. We have been saying the Rosary in our class liturgies and learning more about why Mary is so special.
The Hail Mary: Mary's special prayer
Stations of the Cross
Year 3 and Year 4 led us beautifully in the Stations of the Cross this week. They told us the events of Good Friday, where Jesus died on the cross
End of Term Mass
Father Michael came to school to lead us in our end of Spring term Mass.
Parish Mass - Sunday 6th March
On Sunday 6th March, our school family joined our parish family at St Joseph's Church for Sunday Mass. The children had important roles in the Mass - greeting and welcoming parishoners, reading and bringing the Eucharistic gifts to the altar.
Epiphany Mass
Father Michael led us in a very special Mass in our school hall to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. We were all called to think about what gifts we would give to our Lord Jesus.
Ash Wednesday
On Wednesday 22nd February, we joined our parish family at St Joseph's to mark the start of the season of Lent. Our Year 6 children helped Father Michael give out the ashes to everyone.
"The children are an absolute credit to you. Wonderful" Parishoner
Key Stage Two Carol Service
The Key Stage Two children led us in a wonderful Carol Service at St Joseph's Church. It was the first time in three years we could hold such an event with our whole community together and it was a truly special occasion. Thank you to the Parish who served us some wonderful refreshments afterwards.
Nativity Plays
We were very proud of our Early Years and Key Stage One children for sharing the good news of Jesus' birth with us! We all agreed there was real Christmas joy and excitement during the Nativity plays!.
Newbury Living Advent Calendar
Our Year Six children took part in the Newbury Living Advent Calendar this year. This is a wonderful community event where the importance of the Nativity at Christmas was shared with local residents by our Year Six children.
Visits to the Church
Year 6 Leavers Mass Douai Abbey
Early Years Liturgy
Good Shepherd Mass
“On Friday 20th, we went to Portsmouth to represent our school at the cathedral. There were lots of other schools. It took about an hour and a half to get there. Leo had to hold the school banner and walk down the aisle. Kitty’s job was to take the offertory up to the Bishop. The cathedral was big with lots of carvings on the wall and stained glass windows. We sang hymns and said prayers. We had a picnic outside with the students from St Finians after the Mass and then we went back to our school" Leo and Kitty June 2022
Happy Birthday to the Church!
This week the children in Reception were celebrating the Church's birthday as part of our Pentecost learning. We arranged to have a special birthday party and invited Father Michael to join us. He came in and showed us his special robes he wears for Pentecost and then he joined us for some musical statues and even some birthday cake!” Mrs Daubney May 2022
