Mission

Our Lady of Lourdes School is devoted to Mary the Mother of God who appeared to Saint Bernadette in Lourdes in 18XX. Our mission statement guides us to follow Mary’s example in all we do.

Love like Mary, Serve like Mary, Learn like Mary, Believe like Mary.

The Gospel tells us that in Mary’s life she had a strong faith in God, this meant that with her son Jesus she knew how important it was to love and serve others. During her life she continued to learn about her faith and to accept God’s will even at very difficult times in her life.

Core Values

Our Mission is highlighted through our shared school values where we learn the importance of treating everyone with respect, understanding and kindness. We learn that we are responsible for each other and the world around us. By continuing to follow the example of Mary and her son Jesus we can become the best that we can be.

Respect: Is when we know that everyone is important and so we treat them very well.

Responsibility: Is when we know that we are the ones to care for each other and the place we live

Kindness: Is treating each other with love because we know everyone is special

Understanding: Is knowing how others feel and sharing those feelings with another

Be the best we can be (Excellence): Is trying our hardest in everything we do

Be a believer (Faith): Knowing that I can have a go and encourage others to

Catholic Social Teaching

Our Core Values are supported by Catholic Social Teaching because we know that we are representatives of Jesus and must treat each other and our world with care.

Human Dignity: Everyone is special

Subsidiarity: Everyone should have a say

Common Good: Thinking of everyone

Stewardship: Caring for God’s gifts

Solidarity: Showing we care

Promoting Peace: Being Peacemakers

Preferential Option for the Poor: Putting people in most need first

Distributive Justice: Sharing fairly

Participation: Taking part

Our Class Saints

To help us in our faith journey our classes are devoted to saints so that our children can learn to follow their example.

Nursery	EYF	St Nicholas
Reception Nursery	EYB	St Therese
Reception	EYH	St Carlos Acuti
Year 1	1HS	St Josephine Bakhita
	1S	St Perpetua
Year 2	2AOK	St Gabriel
	2R	St Michael
Year 3	3G	St Paul
	3M	St Peter
Year 4	4SF	St Philip
	4M	St Anthony
Year 5	5A	St Brigid
	5W	St Felicity
Year 6	6SC	St Oscar Romero
	6SM	St Teresa of Calcutta
Blue Room		St Bernadette

Prayer and Liturgy

At Our Lady of Lourdes, we believe that collective worship plays a fundamental part in the daily life of our school. It enables us to join together as one community in prayer and Liturgy.

Assemblies 

On Monday we have a whole school assembly that is based upon Sunday’s Gospel or a Gospel or Biblical theme from our Assembly Rota led by a senior teacher

On Tuesday we have separate key stage assemblies that are led by teacher on a Gospel or Biblical theme themes from our Assembly Rota

On Wednesday and Thursday, we have separate key stage singing assemblies.

Year Group Assemblies

In KS2 families are invited to two year group assemblies in the autumn and summer terms. In KS1 and reception class families are invited to one year group assembly during the summer term. Assemblies are themes on the religious education curriculum or Gospel or Biblical themes.

Masses and Reconciliation

Where Holy Days of Obligation occur on a school day, we take KS2 to Our Lady of Lourdes Church to celebrate mass with the parish.  We also celebrate the beginning of the school year with the Feast of the Holy Cross and our school feast day. That children from Ks1 and Ks2 attend. Our school leavers have a special mass in July.

Mass services include:

Feast of the Holy Cross

Feast of All Saints

Epiphany

Feast of Our lady of Lourdes

Ash Wednesday

Feast of the Ascension

Feats of Saint Peter and St Paul

Year 6 Leavers Mass

Parents are welcome to take children in KS1 to mass.

We ask children and families to attend mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Education Sunday and the Feast of Christ the King where pupils take part in the service.

Reconciliation Services include:

Advent Reconciliation

Lenten Reconciliation

Special Religious Celebrations

We also mark other events in the Liturgical year

Early Years Nativity

Key stage 1 Nativity

KS2 Carol Service

Roll Back the Stone – musical telling of the Easter Story

Crowning of Mary

Prayers

At Our Lady of Lourdes prayer is a constant feature in our daily life in school through various shared and individual liturgies.

Prayer also takes place in the morning, before and after lunch and at the end of the school day.

Pupils are also given opportunities to reflect and pray quietly for their own intentions.

Classes have a specific prayer table that aligns with the Liturgical calendar.

All Governing Body and Staff Meetings begin with a shared prayer.

What prayers our children learn

From Reception, children learn to make the Sign of the Cross and begin to recite the Morning Offering, Grace before and after lunch and the Night Prayer with their teacher.

In KS1 children continue with the prayers from reception and learn the Hail Mary, Our Father, Glory Be

In KS2 children continue with the prayers they have learnt and also learn the Hail Holy Queen.