This page of the J&P website will be used to provide a range of news and views on Youth issues across the diocese.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
St Mary’s Primary School, Crewe
St Mary’s is embarked on a programme leading to UNICEF’s Rights Respecting School Award. This programme builds teaching of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into our curriculum and embeds its precepts in the life of the school.
- Peace Corner
St Mary’s School Choir are outstanding ambassadors for Peace in the local area, having given many concerts from their repertoire of Peace songs. This year, on UN International Peace Day, 21 September, the Choir led the singing of a massed choir of 200 children from ten local primary schools.
A beautiful Peace and Prayer Garden has been finally established over the summer, and groups of children are using it for reflection on the Gospel message of Peace and as an inspirational setting for composing Peace poetry.
Choir, J&P Enough is Enough, April 2011
St Mary’s is a very strong supporter of Cafod, raising significant sums in donations. In the past the Choir have sold CDs and given concerts in aid of Cafod, and Cafod staff are frequent and well-known visitors, often giving assemblies in school.
HIGH SCHOOLS
Ellesmere Port Catholic High School
During the summer holidays a few of the staff designed and built a garden in our school grounds. It was in response to pupil requests for somewhere quiet to sit and to have a place to remember past pupils and staff who have passed away.
We also wanted to demonstrate to pupils how something can be made from anything. We were able to get tyres from local garages and soil/ sand and rubble to fill the tyres from a local building company. The tyres have been painted and planted up with a huge variety of perennial plants.
The pupils have been very respectful towards the new addition to the school and a small group of budding gardeners help out each week with feeding and weeding.
RESOURCES
100 Days of Peace The international Olympic and Paralympic Games offer a wonderful opportunity to reassert our commitment to peace. The Olympic Truce tradition at the heart of the Olympic ideal inspires hope that around this event we can redeem the dream of harmonious multi-cultural, multi-faith and multi-generational communities.
The resource book Release Peace is a collection of lesson plans, testimonies and articles designed to inspire young people to learn more about the Olympic ideals and think about the culture of peace that must be created if they are to be brought to fruition, not just for the Games but as a lasting legacy for society.
More information can be found on: www.peacelegacy.org.uk
Stations of the Cross for Young People Stations of the Cross for Young People
Justice & Peace Resource - Ten pages of stimulating ideas: games, films, facts and questions for secondary schools, youth groups, confirmation groups Justice and Peace Resources for Young People
