In addition to #CEW2016 posts on Twitter, some schools have sent in news and pictures of their activities for Catholic Education Week 2016.  These can be seen on the CEW Display Wall. 

St Vincent’s Primary School, East Kilbride

Pupils created some displays of their work for Catholic Education Week.

St Columba’s RC High School Dunfermline

The community of St Columba’s High School celebrated Catholic Education Week by participating in school assemblies led by some pupils.

Some pupils also supported Fr Alex Davie at Education Sunday Mass in Our Lady of Lourdes parish Dunfermline.

St Eunan’s Primary School Clydebank

St Patrick’s Primary School Dumbarton

St David’s RC Primary School Edinburgh

Prior to Catholic Education Week some Primary 6 pupils reminded us of the values that underpin the Year of Mercy at an assembly.

Pupils have been working  create a display to illustrate how,by showing signs of Mercy, we can “turn the driest land into a garden…” (Pope Francis).

Primary 2 pupils presented at a fantastic assembly which included a drama based on the Gospel passage of The Prodigal Son. Staff, pupils, parents and our parish priest all attended.

St Mary’s PS Edinburgh

Pupils helped to decorate prepared St. Mary’s Cathedral for Catholic Education Week with posters illustrating the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. Some pupils also participated at Mass on Education Sunday by facilitating the readings and bidding prayers and singing in the choir.

St. Martin’s PS Tranent

St Martin’s pupils created a display for Catholic Education week to illustrate what they have learned about how Pope Francis has compared mercy to watering barren land. Each child in the school was given time to reflect on times they had shown mercy to others.  They then wrote a little bit about how we had shown mercy and coloured in the flowers showing new life. The photograph shows some P4 pupils with part of the display.

SS Peter & Paul’s PS Dundee

At a Catholic Education Week Mass celebrated with pupils and staff of SS Peter & Paul’s Primary in Dundee, Mgr Ken McCaffrey presenedt a BENEMERENTI medal to Miss Carol Jones for services to Education in the Diocese of Dunkeld – over 40 years of teaching. The photograph shows Debbie Gallacher HT, Ailish and Keir, head boy and girl and some P3 pupils who led Mass on the theme of Mercy.

Taylor High School Cluster School Mass, Carfin Lanarkshire

St. Francis Xavier Church, Carfin hosted a Mass for pupils, staff and parents from schools associated with Taylor High School Motherwell.

Cluster Schools from Notre Dame High School Greenock

Pupils, parents and staff from St. Patrick’s, St Mary’s and All Saints’ Primaries as well as Notre Dame High gathered in St Patrick’s Church, Greenock for their annual Catholic Education Week cluster Mass. This occasion was extra special as the icon of Our Lady of Paisley was visiting the parish this week too.

Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral Motherwell

Pupils in Class Primary 4b read about the Prodigal Son and learned about forgiveness . We thought about ways we could be merciful and made a wall display

St Vincent’s Primary Carnwadric, Glasgow

St Vincent’s school choir sang at Mass in St Vincent De Paul Church Thornliebank on Education Sunday. The musical accompaniment was provided by three senior pupils at St Ninians High School, Giffnock.

Sacred Heart PS Grangemouth

P7 pupils have been learning about the Patron Saint of Glasgow – St Mungo and about the story his life and the four miracles that he performed during his life.

The class looked at the verse related to the four miracles and were working on creating collage pieces inspired by stained glass and religious iconography.

These photographs show the first steps of the process discussing the Saint, re-reading about his life and the miracles and then beginning to plan out ideas for the art work.

St Stephen’s Primary School, Dalmuir

Some of the Pope Francis Faith Award pupils came along to the Vigil Mass on Saturday to take part in the Liturgy by reading, taking part in the offertory and also by distributing our school leaflet about the ways we develop and promote the gospel values and ways which we are learning in school to be merciful.

A few P7 pupils delivered a Catholic Education Week assembly to the whole school.

P1 pupils can  be seen decorating and and writing the words they have put into action so that they can create a garden of being merciful.

St Patrick’s Primary School Coatbridge

St Patrick’s P6 & P7 pupils have been creating some artwork, having learned about the Year of Mercy logo.