SCHOOL VISION STATEMENT

Students at St Pius X Catholic School will have faith in their ability as future focussed learners, seeking and using knowledge actively, to fulfill their personal best in hope and relate to their world through their loving relationship with God.

SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT

Excellence in education: working together as a Catholic community

FAITH, HOPE & LOVE

AND THE GREATEST ONE OF THESE IS LOVE!

ST PIUS X CATHOLIC SCHOOL PRAYER

Lord, be with us through the day

Help us understand the way

To follow right and never wrong

And make our love grow ever strong.

St Pius protect us at work and play

And guide our teachers every day

To lead us along the right paths

This, dear Lord is what we ask.

Amen

MORNING PRAYER

God Our Loving Creator

This new day is for you

Please Bless Everything

We Think, We Say, We Do

AMEN

GRACE BEFORE LUNCH

Thank you Lord for the food we eat

Thank you Lord for the world so sweet

Thank you Lord for the birds that sing

Thank you Lord for everything

AMEN

CLOSING OF OUR LEARNING DAY PRAYER

Thank you Lord for this day

Please be with us on our way home

And Bless our families

AMEN

OUR HOLY FAITH SISTERS

Margaret Aylward - Foundress

Margaret Aylward was born in Waterford in 1810. In her search for God’s will in her life, she entered two religious congregations in her earlier years. Leaving may have seemed a “failure” at the time, whereas God was forming in faith a future foundress. She came to live in Dublin and established a Branch of the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in the city for visiting the sick poor.

Seeing the urgent need, her focus changed and she founded St. Brigid's Orphanage - not a residential institution but a longterm family care system - to provide fosterage for destitute children in danger of loss of faith.

"St. Brigid's orphan has a home and a fireside and calls its foster-parents by the dear names of father and mother.

" Schools for the poor and assistance to families in need were also at the heart of the foundation years.

In 1867, Margaret Aylward, aged 57, and her fifteen companions were overjoyed when the Sisters of the Holy Faith received approval as a religious congregation

Margaret and her companions established many schools to give Catholic education to the poorest in society. She also worked to strengthen family units by giving them the means to start earning a living.

SCHOOL MOTTO

Advance in Faith and Hope and Love

This motto is based on the spiritual principles that the Holy Faith Sisters lived by:

FAITH - They were a congregation founded on Faith and faith development was the main focus.

HOPE - strong association with humility as expressed through acknowledging our limitations - our strengths and weakness. Out of this realisation comes the virtue of humility (of being ourselves

LOVE - charity in caring for one another

The cross on the school logo is the Holy Faith symbol.

EMBLEM

Our Holy Faith Emblem

The larger circle: infinity ... the earth

The smaller circle: the sun ... the light of faith

The wavy lines: our international institute ... the waters of life

The cross centrally placed :

"foundation of the universe, creation's binding force" The open arm of the cross invites us to spread the word of God and indicates our openness to receive.

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