CAFOD Club
The CAFOD Club raised £80 from their two stalls at the Christmas Fair!
Children in the CAFOD Club decided to create a ‘Name the Rudolf’ stall and ‘Guess the Sweets in the Jar’ stall. Children helped run the stalls and promoted the work of CAFOD to help others across the world! The money was spent on:
- A Sewing Machine
- Chirpy Chickens
- Emergency Water
- School Starter Pack
- Vegetable Garden
- 7. A Queen Bee
CAFOD CLub Launch
CAFOD Club is up and running again for this school year! The children were supported by Christine from CAFOD who is came to work with the whole school and the CAFOD Club, focusing on Catholic Social Teaching (CST). The St. Francis’ CAFOD Club are looking at working towards three projects: Harvest collection for the Ribble Valley Foodbank, World Gifts, to help those around the world & they will be looking at supporting the homeless in the local area. As we were the founding member of the CAFOD Club across the UK, we enjoy welcoming CAFOD volunteers and CAFOD employees from the headquarters in London, into school. Christine also spent some time working the newly formed CAFOD Club looking at putting Catholic Social Teaching into action. The CAFOD Club have big plans for this coming winter supporting people all over the world to make big changes – watch this space!
CAFOD Headquarters in London, came to visit our school to speak specifically with the CAFOD Club. The CAFOD Club has been up and running for four years now, and we are the first official Primary School CAFOD Club in the UK.
We have supported CAFOD develop resources for their website, and resources to send out to school – so that all other Catholic schools can start-up their own CAFOD Clubs. The children took the opportunity to show CAFOD what we have been learning about in school, and to show them what an assembly by the St. Francis CAFOD Club looks like! We look forward to continuing to support CAFOD, helping them get important messages out to more young people!
Following the final visit, we advised on useful resources that could be incorporated within the packs to be sent out to schools-how exciting!
Here are some of the lovely emails from CAFOD :
Hi James and Sarah,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I’ve made a few amends to the overview document, which will go out to schools. The latest version includes a photo and quote which references your school’s CAFOD group – see attached. I hope that helps. If it’s helpful I can also send you the photos I took on the day to use as further evidence.
Going forward, as I develop more resources, I hope to use more of the photos and examples from your group to illustrate your great practice. As these resources develop I will send them though for you to use as evidence.
Thanks again for your support.
Best wishes, Gemma
Live Simply Laudato Si Award
Proud to have been awarded the Live Simply Laudato Si Award
