Chaplaincy Day

Mount Carmel organised a Chaplaincy Day inviting pupils from chaplaincy teams from their Catholic partner primary schools along to join with Mount Carmel's chaplaincy team for a day of activities, reflection and worship.

The schools involved were St. Anne's & St. Joseph's, St. Oswald's, St. Mary's Oswaldtwistle and Sacred Heart. There was a total of over forty pupils from year groups 4, 5, 6 and 8 accompanied by teachers, teaching assistants and religious education co-ordinators.

The theme of the day was 'I am not a Photocopy' which is a quote from Blessed Carlos Acutis. Read more about him here https://carloacutis-en.org/

The Chaplaincy day was led by Mr Davies, Curriculum Leader for Religious Education at Mount Carmel, supported and organised by Partnership Manager Mrs Fielding.

The day included activities around the life and mission of Blessed Carlos Acutis and the concept of who we are as individuals and the role we all play in wider family groups such as our homes, schools and partnership of schools.

All pupils contributed to a family tree which they worked into further in the afternoon making a fantastic visual display which were presented during the liturgy.

Everyone enjoyed a delicious lunch and chat in Mount Carmel's Twelve Star Diner before starting preparations for an end of the day liturgy. Each school was tasked with being involved in different parts of the liturgy such as the welcome, bidding prayers, readings and everyone contributed to the singing of two beautiful hymns.

We thank all pupils and staff from our partner Catholic primary schools for attending the Chaplaincy day and hope the messages will be taken back to spread the word amongst all the schools.