Religious Life Club (GIFT Chaplaincy & Youth SVP)

Our Religious Life Club is a super group of dedicated pupils who embody our school mission statement "To Know, Love and Serve God". They grow in faith together through putting their faith into action.

We meet every Wednesday at lunchtime in F9. All are welcome to attend! 

Please have a read through some of the roles and responsibilities of a Religious Life Rep below!

If you have any questions, please see Miss White or Miss Hampson!

 G.I.F.T Chaplain

• Supporting Masses - Whole school (Advent, Easter, Year 7 Welcome, Year 11 Leavers).

• Attending lunchtime Mass on a Thursday in the Chapel.

• Eucharistic Minister training with Fr. Fabias.

• Attending Popular Piety on a Friday lunchtime in the Chapel - Rosary Walks, Eucharistic Adoration or Stations of the Cross.

• Creating prayers.

• Bible studies following the Liturgical Calendar.

• Supporting the prayerful nature of Our Lady’s around school (form and lessons).

Youth SVP

• Charity work.

• Litter-picking.

• Delivering food bank parcels to St Clare’s Church.

• Supporting whole school charity initiatives (Mrs Burke).

• Community Picnic.

• Iftar.

• Inter-faith Cafe.

Pupil Voice

I enjoy G.I.F.T Chaplaincy as it is a group where I can express my faith with other people who also value their faith. I think it is important to spread the Word of God in our community and to support the school mission, to know love and serve God.

Religious Life Rep 

G.I.F.T Chaplaincy is important to me as I am able to learn more about my religion. I enjoy coming together as a group through the different activities like Songs of Praise and Bible Study. I also find it important that we support other religious life groups like SVP and show that we are all joining together due to our belief in Christ.

Religious Life Rep 

Here are some of the initiatives our Religious Life Reps have done over the last few years:

2022/23 Initiatives:

• Utilising the Form PowerPoint to raise awareness for the Refugee and Migrant Crisis, World Homelessness Day.

• Creating and sharing prayers on significant Black Saints for Black History Month, and designing posters.

• Baking and selling cakes for Caritas Refugee Education Charity.

• Faith Cafe to celebrate Inter-faith Week.

• Selling poppies to raise money for the Royal British Legion.

• Luxury Christmas food hampers for St Clare's Parish.

• Donations every half term to the food bank at St Clare's.

• Designing prayer bookmarks for the school library.

• Rhianna Lock made Department-specific prayers to encourage all teachers in all subjects to pray with pupils.

• Raised £200 for the CAFOD Big Lent Walk where we walked as a collective 200km in 40 days.

• Raffled-off knitted bunny rabbits for Lent.

• Lent riddles on the Form PowerPoint to create a buzz around school.

• Letters to a school in Ghana about our school community and our faith.

• Community litter-picking.

• Community Picnic where we invited some local residents to join us for the afternoon in our Laudato Si Garden.

2023/24 Initiatives:

• 'Saluting Our Sisters' Prayers on the Form PowerPoint in support of this years Black History Month theme.

• Litter-picking in our local community.

• Taking our food bank donations to St Clare's Church on behalf of the school community.

• CAFOD Family Fast - 14 members of staff fasted from 6am-6pm on October 6th 2023.

• Selling knitted and paper poppies to raise money for the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.

• Prayers on the Form PowerPoint to raise awareness for Anti-Bullying Week and Inter-Faith Week.

• Hosted our Inter-Faith Cafe again this year which was a huge success and very well-attended.

• Signed up for the CAFOD Big Lent Walk where we aim to walk 200km in 40 days during Lent, raising money for CAFOD.

• Supporting Mrs Burke with the sale of Valentines Cards and wristbands to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

• Facilitating the distribution, running and collection of money for St Joseph's Penny where each form is given a box to collect spare change.

2024/25 Initiatives:

• Litter-picking in our local community.

• Taking our food bank donations to St Clare's Church on behalf of the school community.

• Selling knitted and paper poppies to raise money for the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal.

2025/26 Initiatives: