Jubilee Year 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope

A Jubilee year takes place every 25 years, and Pope Francis has given this Jubilee the theme, “Pilgrims of Hope”. He has called the Church to celebrate the 2025 Jubilee year with “deep faith, lively hope and active charity.”

June – Friday 27th June – Jubilee Day

On Friday 27th June 2025, we celebrated our school Jubilee day as a school family. We joined together for a Celebration of the Word, discussing how we can put our faith into action and live out our Catholic Social Teaching Principles. Each class then went forth and completed their ‘Jubilee Pledge’.

The Year 6 children, who have completed their ‘Faith in Action Award’ this academic year, acted as facilitators for the children to complete a pilgrimage around the school grounds. Each class stopped at a prayer station, led by the a Year 6 child, where we reflected on our place in the world and how we can leave a lasting a positive impact. Our pilgrimage journey ended in our school prayer garden, where a selection of children read out their pledge and then we finished with a Jubilee Prayer.

The children behaved with reverence and responded to our Jubilee call to action, reflecting on Catholic Social Teaching principles and how we can walk in the footsteps to Jesus to build a fairer and more just world.

April – Taking Hope Home

March – Local Pilgrimage

A pilgrim is a traveler who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journey (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the believer of a particular religion.

A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. 

Year 2 embarked on a local pilgrimage to St Oswald’s Parish Church and they enjoyed participating in Mass. We had the opportunity to reflect on the Good News that as friends of Jesus we will bloom like a flower to become valuable members of God’s family.

February – What is Hope?

This month will ask the children to focus and reflect on what hope means to them.  Hope gives us the ability to look at any situation and know that regardless of how it may appear God is always there. This is the essence of what hope is.

A reading from Romans (Romans 15:12-13)

And again Isaiah says,

“The root of Jesse will come,

even he who arises to rule the Gentiles;

in him will the Gentiles hope.”

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God