G.I.F.T Chaplaincy Team
In January 2026, the following children were enrolled as the new G.I.F.T. Chaplains – Isla, Nasir, Melita, Theo, Cosmas, Nicole, Ceci, Sophia, Daisy and Amari. We joined Father Philip and parents in a special Holy Mass of thanks for the work of the outgoing chaplains (Sofia, Daniella, Niamh, Aurelia, Francesco, Joshua, Zac, Ivy, Cyrene and Skye) and asking God to support our incoming team in their mission this year.
These new chaplains had previously prepared and presented to Mrs Hindley, Mrs Wright and Year 4 a short presentation on why they would like to be on the G.I.F.T chaplaincy team at St Patrick’s.
G.I.F.T stands for Growing in Faith Together. All the children will work as a team to support and develop the Catholic life of the school and focus on how we can put Catholic Social Teaching (CST) into action.
They will support parish events, help to prepare and take part in Masses and suggest charitable fundraising.
This year, Mrs. Wright and Mrs Cerqueglini have generously agreed to support the children. Thank you Mrs. Wright and Mrs Cerqueglini!
During Lent 2026, the children decided to raised funds for CAFOD. They asked the whole school to participate in a Sponsored Walk. They made posters to advertise this event and coordinated the walk itself. We are very proud of their efforts.
Additional events that our GIFT Chaplains support the school with include leading our school community in prayer in our whole school Celebrations of the Word, reading Bible stories to younger children, leading religious-themed games at breaktimes (such as hunt the BIble verse), offering blessings across the school community, sending Christmas and Easter cards to our parish community and to care homes and giving up their lunchtimes to litter pick in the parish graveyard.
Information about the type of events and activities that previous years' GIFT Chaplains got up to is listed below:
