CAFOD – The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development are an international development charity who reach out to people living in poverty all over the world. CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. Our school supports CAFOD by raising funds and supporting their initiatives throughout the year.
Cafod Big Lent Walk 2025
St Oswald’s Catholic Primary School are proud to announce that we have walked a grand total of 634.55km!
On Thursday 10th April, we all took part in a Big Lent Walk around the school grounds together. We each completed 1km, collectively 222km!
Well done and thank you to everyone who participated at home. A special mention to Isla H in Year 4 for completing 85km and Summer in Year 2 for completing 82.2km.
Pilgrims of Hope
2025 marks the jubilee year and this year is it about the Pilgrims of Hope.
What is a Jubilee year?
In the Catholic Church, a Jubilee or Holy Year is a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation, in which people are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.
Celebration of the word – Family Fast Day
During Year 4s Celebration of the word we learnt about Family Fast Day.
Our CAFOD Representatives and Year 4 watched a video about James who lives in a poor coastal suburb of Monrovia, Liberia.
James told us that when his family had no food, he faced a terrible choice: stay home and stay hungry or put everything on the line to go out onto the water in his small canoe. Five fishermen a month – many he called ‘brothers’ – were dying in storms at sea. Just like him, they couldn’t afford the life jackets, compasses, and other equipment they needed to stay safe at sea and get a good catch.
Cafod Big Lent Walk 2024
We did it!
We took part in the CAFOD Big Lent Walk. A walking target of 400km…. smashed it!
The children and staff had a brilliant morning walking around our school, the weather wasn’t great but it didn’t dampen our moods.
Thank you so much to our generous school community. You are all fabulous!
Lent
We were very lucky to be visited by Steve from CAFOD to explain to us how our donations help support others around the world.
Harvest Collection
Around the world, one in three people have gone hungry in the last year. This Harvest, St Oswald’s wanted to support those in need and we collected food items for Hope and Hospitality.
CAFOD Club and Mini Vinnies packed up the HUGE collection and handed over our collection to Hope and Hospitality on Friday 13th October 2023.
Brighten Up Fund Raiser
This Harvest, we helped to brighten up the world by fundraising for our global family. We had a ‘Brighten Up’ non uniform day on the last day of term. For a small donation all pupils came in wearing their brightest outfit and they definitely brightened up our final day of the Autumn Term.
We collected £142.80.
All proceeds were donated to CAFOD Emergencies – who will send help to those affected by the earthquake in Morocco, the floods in Pakistan and the world food crisis.
