Last week, a number of our students were able to visit the relics of Saint Carlo Acutis.
This amazing Saint was a young Italian Catholic known for his deep love of the Eucharist, which he called his “highway to heaven.” Gifted with computer skills, he used the internet to document Eucharistic miracles around the world, creating a website to help others grow in faith. Carlo lived an ordinary life with extraordinary charity—defending the vulnerable, helping the poor, and praying daily. He died of leukemia at age 15, offering his suffering to God. Canonized in 2024, he is a powerful witness that holiness is possible in the digital age, especially for young people.
This was an incredibly moving event which the children, and staff, spoke about afterwards reverently and inspirationally. The relics included a strand of hair, some of his clothing and a piece of pericardium.

Saint Carlo's example teaches us that we are all called to Sainthood through our actions and our words.

Before the break, Year 3 finished their geography topic by learning how to orientate a map. We went into the hall, where the children had to complete a route to crack a series of puzzles. There were some fantastic map skills on show, well done, Year 3!

In our final day at Our Lady's we wanted to spread cheer with our local schools, including St. Damian's RC Science College.

Our Sow and Grow ambassadors took a Christmas card along with plantable seed paper to help spread eco friendly Christmas cheer.

The Nursery children were excited to learn that Jack Frost had been breathing his frosty breath all around our outdoor area. We saw lots of signs that the colder, winter weather was here, but we couldn't find Jack Frost anywhere! We had lots of fun exploring the frost and ice that we found.

This week has been all about nursery rhymes. Each day the children have learnt a different nursery rhyme through playful activities. We have so many favourites to choose from! We also enjoyed being the audience for each class in school when they performed a nursery rhyme to us. We gave them all 10/10!