Catholic Life and Mission
Caritas Ambassadors: putting ‘Love into Action’.
At St. Richard’s, we have a dedicated and well-established Caritas Ambassador team. Our Caritas Ambassadors are responsible for ensuring that all pupils in our school know, love and follow Christ by putting their faith into action. Our Caritas Ambassador team is made up of volunteers from Key Stage Two and they are responsible for planning and delivering social action projects across the school. The Caritas Ambassadors have been trained by Kathryn Ansley from Caritas and use their increased understanding of the issues faced by our local and global communities to create an action plan to be a voice for change and social action.
They are responsible for ensuring that we promote the Caritas seven strands of Catholic Social Teaching:
- Dignity of the Human Person
- Family and Community
- Solidarity of the Common Good
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
- The dignity of Work
- Stewardship
You can see some of the exciting things we have been doing below.
Throughout the month of May, the GIFT Team and Caritas Ambassadors led a Rosary prayer group every lunchtime, providing our KS2 pupils with the opportunity to pause and say a decade of the Rosary.
Our GIFT team and Caritas Ambassadors wrote some beautiful prayers to reflect on the passing of Pope Francis and the election of our new Pope. We will continue to work to be Pilgrims of Hope this year, just as Pope Francis called us to be.
Each year, we run our Creme Egg appeal. The Caritas Ambassadors are in charge of running a competition to see which class can collect the most Creme Eggs. The eggs are then donated to Francis House and sold in knitted chicks across the city. This year we managed to collect an amazing 1912 eggs. Thank you so much to all of our generous families!
Our Caritas Ambassador team visited Little Sisters of the Poor St. Joseph’s care home. We had a fantastic afternoon: we sang songs, chatted to the residents and took pictures and cards made by our Year 5 pupils.
Kathryn Ansley from Caritas Salford came in to do some training with our Caritas Ambassador team. It was an inspiring afternoon and we can’t wait to put all of our new ideas into action!
The Caritas Ambassadors took charge of organising a whole school Christmas Jumper Day. All children were encouraged to bring in a donation and all the money raised will be donated to Save the Children.
The Caritas Ambassadors led our Harvest Collection this year for Cornerstone. We collected all the donations from each class and dropped them to Cornerstone Day Centre with Mrs Bentley. We are hoping that the food will make a big difference to those who need it!
