This Saturday, a few fortunate St Patrick’s children took a trip to Teesside University to go to the Animex Festival. The Animex Festival is hosted every year and brings together some of the biggest names in animation and games developing to host a variety of activities, exhibitions, workshops and much more. Top games developers from all over the world come to Teesside to talk about their latest projects: some of the speakers have recently worked on huge titles such as Hercules, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Rio 2 and most recently Ferdinand. It is a brilliant opportunity for our children to meet industry experts and see state-of-the-art technology in action.

Congratulations to our Year 3 children who took their First Holy Communion this weekend. Your First Communion is the third of the Seven Sacraments (after baptism and confession) which we can receive that take us further through our journey with God. This is an important ceremony in which the children receive the Eucharist for their first time. It was brilliant to see the church, school, and family all come together as one to celebrate the children’s progress on such a wonderful journey.

May is the month of our Mother Mary. To show our devotion to Mary and honor her and mothers everywhere, St Patrick’s Church hosts a procession where the children walk gracefully through the church with hymns are sung to give thanks. Our crown bearer, Evie Webster, was chosen by class mates as they felt her qualities best represented Our Lady’s. It is the crown bearer’s duty to place the crown of flowers on the Statue of Our Lady.

Well done to our Year 3s and 4s who have participated in a football tournament at Stockton Sixth Form. Our boys are already looking like such brilliant footballers at such a young age. After a day of facing some difficult competition, St Patrick’s still managed to get 3rd place over all.

Congratulations boys, keep it up!

Classes that achieved more than 97% attendance overall last term have been rewarded with an afternoon full of fun and food! To celebrate and encourage high attendance, classes with 97% or higher attendance have a a pizza party from Domino’s to for recognising their commitments to school! Some classes just missed out so make sure next term we try to be off as little as possible!

Mrs Simms and her unbelievably talented choir were once again making a difference in the community today. Our choir consists of 75 lovely children who all want to try to use their voices to bring joy to where ever they can. Some of our choir members were fortunate enough to be chosen to sing at North Tees Hospital in the Dementia Ward. The residents were overjoyed to have St Patrick’s spirit and voices fill the wards of the hospital. It was brilliant to see our pupils bringing smiles to so many faces.

Thank you St Patrick’s and Miss Simms.

Easter is the most important celebration to our faith as we remember that Jesus gave us the most important gift of all – his life – before resurrecting and ascending into heaven. To celebrate this, all of the classes have been working together to re-enact the story of Easter leading up to Christ’s crucifixion. The children displayed a beautiful interpretation of the story which was captivating to witness. As a school and community, it gives us joy to celebrate Christ being reborn and we are pleased to see our children not only learning his story, but rejoicing in his name. 

Happy Easter to all! 

Today we celebrated Brain Tumour Awareness Day. To raise awareness of such a terrible disease, children and staff wore a hat of their choice to help thinking about those affected by brain tumours. Thank you to the parents for your continued support.

To help guide us through out Lenten journey, St Patrick’s pupils have been hosting Stay and Pray liturgies to appreciate the sacrifices that Jesus, and one another, all make for the good of others during lent. Parents were welcomed into our school to share this journey with us. Throughout the liturgy we reflected on what we can do to become more like Jesus by focussing on how we can bring the Frhttp://www.stpatricksthornaby.org.uk/wp-admin/plugin-editor.phpuits of the Spirit into each other’s lives. Thank you parents for your support through this Easter time and please feel free to join Stay and Prays in the future.