Congratulations to the members of the school choir who sang at the Arts Choir Spring Concert last Saturday. A delightful evening with beautiful singing was enjoyed by all. Well done and thank you Mr Fawcett.
Arts Choir Spring Concert
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Holy Week and Easter Mass Times at St Edward’s
Palm Sunday – 10th April – processions before Mass starting from outside the church. Mass at 9am.
Holy Thursday – 14th April – 7pm
Good Friday – 15th April – 1pm
Holy Saturday – 16th April – 11.00 am Swieconka (Polish food Blessing – see below for more details)
Easter Vigil – Wool – 8.30pm
Easter Sunday – 17th April – 11am
Food Blessing Święconka
Holy Saturday, 16th April @ 11am
Please bring baskets filled with Easter food and chocolates.
We bring eggs (hardboiled and decorated) as a symbol of new life; bread as a symbol of the body of Christ; salt and pepper to add to our other Easter food and any other food you would like to be blessed.
We hope to see you there!
Donations for Ukraine
At St Mary’s in Swanage, we have been a drop off point for donations of clothes, food, nappies, tents, blankets etc. to send to support our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Both the school and wider community have been incredibly generous to the point where we had to temporarily stop any more items being left!
Prayers for Peace
The children in years 5 and 6 had lots of questions about the conflict in Ukraine and after some interesting and heartfelt discussion they have written some prayers for peace. We made them into two prayer trees; one of which went to the ecumenical World Day of prayer service and then to our friends at the local Parish church for their Sunday services and the other to Father Tim to share with the Parish at St Edward’s. They include some truly insightful messages that show their compassion, humility and sense of justice for the people of our world.
CAFOD Walk to End Hunger
On Friday 11 March we joined schools across the country in walking to end hunger with CAFOD. We added 277km to the CAFOD total by walking round a cold, damp school perimeter (the field was sodden!).
Lent Giving
Many thanks for the generous donations to Swanage Foodbank (they were thrilled) and CAFOD’s Lent Appeal (£55). Despite the miserable weather on Friday, we managed to walk 277km; this has been added to the CAFOD tally towards their efforts to walk 40,000km against hunger.
Mass in school
Dress-down Day to support Ukraine
Book Sale for Uganda – 25 March
Comic Relief – 18 March
St Mary's Catholic Primary School 