St Mary's Road, East Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8LF

01235 833342

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St Amand's Catholic Primary School

Prayer and WorshiP

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Candlemas: Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

We had a lovely Mass. Children processed with their decorated jars and candles. Mary, Joseph, Anna and Simeon and the High Priest made up the tableau.

Epiphany 2024

Squirrels Class overnight retreat at St Cassian's Centre Kintbury, Oct 2023

Prayer, Reflection, Problem Solving, Games, Climbing Wall and Walks

Class/Home Prayer Bags 

We had a whole school Creation retreat day with the wonderful Dan and Emily from One Life in July 23.

Year 6 at Douai Abbey, July 2023 with other Year 6 children from Catholic schools in the Greater Reading Partnership.

May Day Procession 2023 to St Mary's and the Procession to school to crown Our Lady in the Peace Garden

Holy Week

Stations of the Cross led by Red Kites Class

The Last Supper and the Garden of Gethsemane Liturgical Prayer led by Rabbits class and Red Kites class

Candlemas 2023

The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord

Spiritual Meditation: Jesus Light of the World

On this day we also had a non-electricity morning with outdoor activities organised and led by The Green Democrats. Children decorated candle holders that they carried to church.

Epiphany Mass 2023

On All Saints Day, we dressed as our favourite saints and processed around the church after Mass, singing joyfully.

All Saints Day Mass 2022
All Saints Day Mass 2022

Meet our Class Liturgy Teams who lead prayer and liturgy regularly for their class

 Our Staff and Governor retreat to St Cassian's, Kintbury: Walking on Sacred Ground - October 2022.

The school and classrooms are holy ground.  

We enjoyed an Emmaus Walk together, liturgy, a variety of prayer activities and a lovely lunch.

Year 5 overnight retreat to St Cassian's, Kintbury- October 2022

The team made us feel very welcome. We all enjoyed praying together, deepening friendships, learning more about ourselves and playing together- as in our Mission Statement.

Thank you Kintbury. This was our first visit and we shall return next year,

May Processions down to church and Crowning of Our Lady in our playground.

Lent 

The Passion

The Moving Stations of the Cross-Year 6

The Presentation of the Lord: 2 February 2022.

We celebrated Candlemas with Mass in St Mary's.

During Covid times in 2020-2022, Fr Andrew celebrated many outdoor Masses so that we kept the Mass as the central part of our school life. From September 2021, we resumed weekly Mass in St Mary's.