Catholic Life - Chaplaincy Team
Chaplaincy Team 2024-25
At St Agnes we believe that our pupils of all ages, culture, creed, gender, background or ability can assist in the Church’s mission to reveal Christ to the world and agree with Pope Benedict XVI’s conviction:
“Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new presence to the Church.”
Through their own uniqueness as well as their words and actions, every member of our school is called to represent Christ and so to build up the Catholic Life of the school. However, the role of the Chaplaincy Team (CT) at St Agnes is quite distinct and differs from other leadership roles such as the School Council. Unlike any other team/group, the CT deals with matters of Catholic faith, practices and beliefs, rather than just knowledge and efficiency; is concerned with attitudes, values and virtues, not just rules and regulations; and is about ‘being’ and ‘listening’ as much as ‘doing’ and ‘speaking’. It is one that needs spiritual and practical guidance from faithful adults and requires pupils to be leaders and role models through their loving and serving others.
“Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new presence to the Church.”
Through their own uniqueness as well as their words and actions, every member of our school is called to represent Christ and so to build up the Catholic Life of the school. However, the role of the Chaplaincy Team (CT) at St Agnes is quite distinct and differs from other leadership roles such as the School Council. Unlike any other team/group, the CT deals with matters of Catholic faith, practices and beliefs, rather than just knowledge and efficiency; is concerned with attitudes, values and virtues, not just rules and regulations; and is about ‘being’ and ‘listening’ as much as ‘doing’ and ‘speaking’. It is one that needs spiritual and practical guidance from faithful adults and requires pupils to be leaders and role models through their loving and serving others.
Meet the Chaplaincy Team 2024-25
Nursery-Taylor
Reception- Antony
Year 1- Darcie S
Year 2- Darcie G
Year 3- Dulcie
Year 4- Daniella
Year 5- Christiana
Year 6 - Rachel
The Work of the Chaplaincy Team
Our role is the following:
We have lots of ideas of how we can fulfil our roles. Here are some of them:
To become a member of the Chaplaincy Team we had to do the following:
- To help the school to be a community of faith.
- To encourage the pupils to live their faith in daily living through our Gospel Values.
- To develop good relationships within and beyond the school community.
- To support Liturgy, prayer and the spiritual life of the school.
- To involve pupils and families in fundraising for charities.
- To continue to develop strong links with the Parish.
- To support the school in its Mission Statement, ‘With Christ at our centre, we love, listen and learn’.
We have lots of ideas of how we can fulfil our roles. Here are some of them:
- Help Early Years with their prayers
- Organise various charity fund-raising events in our local, national and global communities.
- Have half termly whole school projects linked to our Catholic Social
- Teaching theme.
- Help to lead assemblies and liturgies, both whole school and at phase level
- Work with other Chaplaincy Teams.
- Promote bible stories and Spread the Word of God
- Maintain our Prayer Garden and RE Resources.
- Promote our Class Prayer books to help families pray together at home
- We have also thought of how we can work together. The following are our five top tips to help us be a successful Chaplaincy Team.
- Listen to each other’s ideas.
- Communicate with all the team members, school and parish.
- Encourage everyone when making decisions, to share their ideas and to try their best.
- Include everyone when making decisions.
- Lead by example, love everyone especially people you don’t get on with.
To become a member of the Chaplaincy Team we had to do the following:
- Apply for the job by completing an application form stating why we were suitable for the job and why we wanted it.
