September 2025 

Parish Pie and Pea luncheon

Members of the Discipleship Team helped to support the parish pie and pea luncheon. They enjoyed making drinks and serving the parish members with pie and peas. They then sat with the parishioners and enjoyed lunch themselves, joining in the social event after all their hard work.

 

 

October 2025

Harvest Mass and Foodbank donation 

Inspired by the example of St. Francis, we celebrated our school Harvest Mass last Wednesday, 1^st October. We were, once again, overwhelmed by your generosity. The Foodbank were extremely grateful and asked us to express their heartfelt thanks to our school and parish community.

Your donations were collected straight after Mass, loaded up and delivered by our Key Stage 2 Discipleship Team; your donations amounted to 154.23kg in weight.

St. Francis was right, ‘It is in giving that we receive’.

"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."         

Matthew 25:40

 

Understanding the launch of the St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust                             Mission and Prayer.

 

The Discipleship Team came together to work through the mission statement and prayer that celebrates the launch of the St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Multi-Academy Trust. The children chose words and phrases that meant something to them and then thought about how they could put these words into action within our school community. The children will then share this with their class over the next week.

 

Prayer cards

At the end of the last Family Mass, some children from Key Stage 2 gave out prayer postcards to the parishioners.

        

The postcards had been made by the Year 1 children at the end of last year as part of their Jubilee, Year of Hope Pledge.

 

November 2025

Operation Christmas Child

Today members of the Discipleship Team had the pleasure of delivering the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to the collection point in Congleton. St. Mary’s rose to the challenge again this year and the children were able to take 48 filled Christmas boxes along with them to go off to our brothers and sisters around the world. Great job St. Mary’s!