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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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.
Family Prayers and Activities
A Message From Pope Francis
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
How to Pray the Rosary with a Child
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.
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 we traditionally prayer the Rosary and would have a Rosary group meeting every Friday. Click on the green button for a 'Wiki' guide to praying the Rosary with children. We will be adding more resources during the month.
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.
Animated Rosary
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
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 the set of family prayer cards.
Wednesday Word
Pope Francis's Five Finger Prayer
Wednesday Word
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.
Mon 29th June 2020 - Ss Peter and Paul's Feast Day
Sunday Mass Readings
Reflecting on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Reflecting on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Please take some time to click on the image above and read the Mass readings for our school feast day. We would usually celebrate Mass in school.
Reflecting on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Reflecting on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Reflecting on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Please click on the image above. You can listen to or read the reflections on Ss Peter and Paul. You may like to light a candle or pick a flower from your garden in preparation. There are prayers and you can also listen to the hymn - By all your saints still striving, the psalm - The angel of the Lord and the Spanish song, ¿Quién dicen que soy yo? - Who do you say I am?
Mon 29th Jun - Assembly
Mon 29th Jun - Ss Peter and Paul's Feast Day - Mrs Speed's Assembly
Mon 29th Jun - Ss Peter and Paul's Feast Day - Mrs Speed's Assembly
Please watch Fr John leading assembly on the feast day of our school patron saints - Peter and Paul.
Mon 29th Jun - Ss Peter and Paul's Feast Day - Mrs Speed's Assembly
Mon 29th Jun - Ss Peter and Paul's Feast Day - Mrs Speed's Assembly
Mon 29th Jun - Ss Peter and Paul's Feast Day - Mrs Speed's Assembly
Mrs Speed's readings and messages for our patron saints' feast day. In school we would usually have a celebration Mass and some party activities, so if you are at home, please try to have a treat!
Summer 2020
Holy Week
Holy Week was different this year as we were not able to come to school. We provided families with a wide range of Holy Week resources: readings from God’s Story, prayers, reflections, videos of Palm Sunday, a message from Fr John and his own Stations of the Cross, songs by John Burland, Rend Collective and Tim Hughes, craft activities and links to CAFOD, Mission Together, The Bible Society, Wintershall, The Pastoral Center and Easter In Another Place.
CAFOD
CAFOD's home learning page has downloadable Laudato Si packs as well as games, films, prayers and activities for children.
CAFOD Children's Liturgy
CAFOD have set up a virtual children's liturgy which is shown live every Sunday at 10am and is available to catch-up as well. This is a super resource while we cannot gather together in person due to coronavirus, we can still come together as a community through prayer. Click on the green button for details on how to sign up.
CAFOD Summer of Hope Appeal
CAFOD have a new fundraising appeal to join in with called Summer of Hope. The aim is to ensure clean water and food reaches some of the poorest families in the world during this global emergency.
Synod 2020
Please take a few minutes to watch the video from the archdiocese Synod 2020, to reflect on the questions about the church during the Covid-19 pandemic and to write any proposals that you have. Click on the green button.
Mission Together
Mission Together (Missio) is one of the charities that we support in school. They have produced Holy Week packs and activity sheets which include simple tasks, questions, prayers and adapted scriptures. They’ll help children learn, reflect, and stand in solidarity with children around the world already living in hardship. At times like this, we encourage children to remember that we are all part of God’s family.
Aid to the Church in Need
If you would like to have a candle lit and support the charity Aid to the Church in Need, click on the green button. Your candle will serve as a symbol of your sincere and prayerful intentions.
These candles are perfect for loved ones, as memorials, and for those in need who are far away.