The Cathedral Catholic Primary School Balmoral Road, Lancaster, LA1 3BT Tel: 01524 64686 www.cathedral.lancs.sch.uk Headteacher: Mrs N Holt
Monday 28th November 2022 Dear Parents and Carers, ADVENT ACTIVITIES Sunday was the first Sunday in Advent. Advent is a time when Christians take time to reflect on their lives and how they can make more room for Jesus as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas. In school, our Advent theme is ‘Be Still in Advent’ and every day after lunch, the children will participate in a few minutes of silent reflection to help them think about the special birthday we are preparing to celebrate. Each class will have a ‘Travelling Advent Book’. Your child will bring the book home for an evening to read and reflect on with you. Please return the book the next day so another family can enjoy it. As always, there will be other activities during Advent which will help us to reflect and wonder at the amazing feast we are preparing to celebrate. Children in Reception Class and Key Stage One are preparing a Nativity play. All children are learning and practising Christmas carols for a school carol service in the Cathedral in the last week of term – we hope you will be able to join us for these. The children in our St Francis of Assisi group will launch our new charity appeal for Advent next week. We are raising money for Lancaster and District Homeless Action Service (LDHAS) which is hoping to move to new premises in Lancaster early in 2023. On Wednesday 13th December, children can wear Christmas jumpers (these can be ordinary jumpers decorated with drawings/ tinsel etc) for a donation of £1 per child and during the last week of term, our choir will sing Christmas carols in the playground to raise money – all the money will go to support the Lancaster Homeless Action Services. We hope that our times of stillness and reflection, our re-enactment of the Christmas story, singing carols together and giving to those in need will help us to remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus, God’s son, at Christmas. With thanks for your support, Mrs Claire Dickinson RE Subject Leader