Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
Catholic Life of Our School
Great Crosby Catholic Primary aims to make the school a place where the Gospel values of our Lord Jesus Christ are taught, lived and experienced, where prayer and celebrations are integral to life and where religious growth and development are stimulated within the total curriculum to which all can contribute and from which all can gain.
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Advent 2022
Mon 5th Dec - CAFOD World Gifts Assembly
Mon 5th Dec - CAFOD World Gifts Assembly
Mon 5th Dec - CAFOD World Gifts Assembly
We welcomed Richard Cooke from CAFOD Liverpool to speak in our assemblies about the needs of people in other countries & how we can make a difference through CAFOD World Gifts. Click on the image to find out more.
Wed 30th Nov - Advent Mass
Mon 5th Dec - CAFOD World Gifts Assembly
Mon 5th Dec - CAFOD World Gifts Assembly
Fr John celebrated our first Advent Mass in school with parishioners, families and staff. As it was the Feast of St Andrew, Fr John spoke of showing our faith through our actions, as St Andrew did. Our next Advent Mass is 8am, Wednesday 14th December. Click on the image to visit the 'In Our Parishes' page to find Mass times and the latest news from Ss Peter and Paul's and St Helen's parishes.
CAFOD's Family Advent Calendar
Mon 5th Dec - CAFOD World Gifts Assembly
CAFOD's Family Advent Calendar
CAFOD's 2022 online Advent calendar for families has a daily reflection and free activity for you and your children in preparation for Christmas. Join us as we journey throughout the season of Advent with our global family. .
CAFOD Schools Advent Calendar
Archbishop Malcolm's Advent Reflection
CAFOD's Family Advent Calendar
Click on the image above to download the CAFOD Advent Calendar PowerPoint with stories and activities to help children learn about and pray for people around the world.
Archbishop Malcolm's Advent Reflection
Archbishop Malcolm's Advent Reflection
Archbishop Malcolm's Advent Reflection
Please watch Archbishop Malcolm's reflection of the year so far, recorded for the First Sunday of Advent.
Year 2 Advent Liturgy
Archbishop Malcolm's Advent Reflection
Archbishop Malcolm's Advent Reflection
Year 2 performed their Advent Liturgy to KS2 children on Monday and parents and carers on Tuesday. The whole of Year 2 were awarded Star of the Week for preparing our parents/carers and pupils for Christmas through their Advent Liturgy. Scroll down to see some photos.
Autumn 2022
Thu 10th Nov - Rosary Club
Tue 1st Nov - All Saints Day
Tue 1st Nov - All Saints Day
We welcomed Lin and Marie from our local parishes to say the Rosary with KS2 pupils at lunchtime, which continues this half term.
Tue 1st Nov - All Saints Day
Tue 1st Nov - All Saints Day
Tue 1st Nov - All Saints Day
Fr John celebrated Mass for All Saints Day with all of KS2. The children gave lots of excellent responses about the qualities that a saint should have. Fr John showed a trailer for 'No Greater Love' a new film about St Mother Teresa. KS1 also had a special assembly with Fr John. Click on the green button to see the trailer on You Tube.
Tue 1st Nov - All Saints Day
Children from Year 5 led our bidding prayers.
Family Prayers and Activities
A Message From Pope Francis
A Message From Pope Francis
A Message From Pope Francis
Please take some time to read Pope Francis's letter encouraging everyone to rediscover the beauty of praying the Rosary at home in the month of May. Click on the image of the Pope.
Wednesday Word
A Message From Pope Francis
A Message From Pope Francis
The Primary School Wednesday Word is an outreach which shares Sunday's Gospel with all school families, in a unique way.
Each family usually receives the weekly handout consisting of high-quality Sunday Gospel leaflets and booklets. This is a weekly Gospel 'gift' from the school to the child to take home, which then becomes a 'gift' from the child to the whole family.
While schools are closed, The Wednesday Word are offering free-of-charge 'online' editions until things return to normal.
Click on the image above and then click on the same logo on the page you are taken to, to read the latest edition.
CAFOD Rosary Podcasts
A Message From Pope Francis
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
CAFOD have recorded two podcasts to pray the rosary, reflecting on the joyful and luminous mysteries as well as themes of hunger, poverty and creation. There are also additional resources for praying the rosary with children.
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
In May and October we traditionally pray the Rosary. Click on the green button for a 'Wiki' guide to praying the Rosary with children.
Animated Rosary
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
Animated Rosary
The Joyful + Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary from the series "My Time With Jesus" on the EWTN Ireland YouTube channel.
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
Animated Rosary
Pope Francis's Five Finger Prayer
Pope Francis's Five Finger Prayer
Pope Francis's Five Finger Prayer
Pope Francis's Five Finger Prayer
Pope Francis's Five Finger Prayer
Click on the image to visit the Liverpool Archdiocese website to see and download Pope Francis's five finger prayers.
Family Prayer Cards
Family Prayer Cards
Pope Francis's Five Finger Prayer
Click on the image to visit the Liverpool Archdiocese website to see and download the set of family prayer cards.
Ash Wednesday 2022
For the first time in more than two years, all of Key Stage 2 were in the hall together.
Y5 led our Ash Wednesday liturgy including John Burland's songs, fasting ideas...
... CAFOD's Walk Against Hunger video, prayers...
...dance...
...and ashes distribution.
Advent 2021
Wed 22nd Dec - Christmas Liturgy
Wed 1st Dec - Fr John's Advent Blessing
Tue 21st Dec - Fr John's Blessing
Please take a few minutes to watch our Christmas Liturgy that we would normally have done in school.
Tue 21st Dec - Fr John's Blessing
Wed 1st Dec - Fr John's Advent Blessing
Tue 21st Dec - Fr John's Blessing
Fr John's Christmas blessings to all our families.
Wed 1st Dec - Fr John's Advent Blessing
Wed 1st Dec - Fr John's Advent Blessing
Wed 1st Dec - Fr John's Advent Blessing
Father John from Ss Peter & Paul's RC Church has recorded an Advent blessing for our children and families.
Advent Craft and Activities Workshop
Advent Craft and Activities Workshop
Wed 1st Dec - Fr John's Advent Blessing
Last Advent, Maura Foster, one of our school governors, recorded a workshop as at this time of year she would usually work with parents, to show some Advent crafts and activities for families.
A Journey Through Advent
Advent Craft and Activities Workshop
A Journey Through Advent
Recorded in 2020, Father Denis Blackledge SJ, parish priest of St Francis Xavier, Liverpool, provides a couple of minutes’ prayerful pondering each day, based on the scripture readings from that day’s Mass. They will be made available on a daily basis by clicking on the images within the windows.
CAFOD 2021
CAFOD Family Advent Calendar
A Message From CAFOD Liverpool Volunteers to the Children
CAFOD Schools Advent Calendar
CAFOD's 2021 online Advent calendar for families has a daily reflection and free activity for you and your children in preparation for Christmas. Join us as we journey throughout the season of Advent with our global family.
CAFOD Schools Advent Calendar
A Message From CAFOD Liverpool Volunteers to the Children
CAFOD Schools Advent Calendar
Click on the image above to download the CAFOD Advent Calendar PowerPoint with stories and activities to help children learn about and pray for people around the world.
A Message From CAFOD Liverpool Volunteers to the Children
A Message From CAFOD Liverpool Volunteers to the Children
A Message From CAFOD Liverpool Volunteers to the Children
A message to all our schools from the Education Volunteers at CAFOD in Liverpool.
We usually welcome volunteers from CAFOD for our Come and See topic of Stewardship.
Richard came in February to share the 'Life Without Taps' activity with Year 5.
Holy Week 2021
Holy Week
We turned our website purple for Holy Week. On Monday, the children had online liturgical assemblies in their classrooms. On Tuesday, we had Stations of the Cross and reflection on the field, in the sunshine.
Lent 2021
Sat 27th Feb - Fr John Seddon's Anniversary
Fr John's Ash Wednesday Reflection and Blessing
Sat 27th Feb - Fr John Seddon's Anniversary
This week we remember Fr John Seddon, whose anniversary is on Saturday 27th February. Fr John was a great friend to the school. He died in 2015. Our former pupils and their families will remember him. Fr John Furnival has recorded a special message and blessing. .
Ash Wednesday Liturgy
Fr John's Ash Wednesday Reflection and Blessing
Sat 27th Feb - Fr John Seddon's Anniversary
Please take some time to listen and respond to our Ash Wednesday Liturgy. It includes a reading, prayers, reflections, our support for CAFOD and a blessing from Fr John. Scroll down to watch the current Year 6's Ash Wednesday liturgy from 2020.
Fr John's Ash Wednesday Reflection and Blessing
Fr John's Ash Wednesday Reflection and Blessing
Fr John's Ash Wednesday Reflection and Blessing
A reflection and blessing for Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent from Fr John, at Ss Peter and Paul's RC Church in Crosby.
The ashes for Ash Wednesday
Thu 28th Jan - CAFOD National Assembly
Fr John's Ash Wednesday Reflection and Blessing
Fr John explains how last year's palm leaves are burnt and blessed to make ashes for distribution on Ash Wednesday.
Thu 28th Jan - CAFOD National Assembly
Thu 28th Jan - CAFOD National Assembly
Thu 28th Jan - CAFOD National Assembly
In this assembly, find out how even though we are all apart, we are still connected. We’ll travel to a place called Afar in Ethiopia, one of the hottest regions on earth, to meet people who make long journeys to collect water because it is so scarce.
Find out how the steps you take and the actions you make as you learn from home can make a difference to communities without water this term.
Click the button to download the water droplets.