St PaulinusCatholic Primary Academy
Inspiring all to live, learn and love in the light of Jesus
Catholic Life and Our Faith
St Paulinus prides itself on being warm and welcoming. Every member of the community from child to staff to parent to parishioner is respected and seen as part of God’s family. Our high expectations and high standards are reflected in everything that we do and staff strive to give every child the best learning opportunities possible.
We aim to help children develop in their journey of faith in a positive learning environment and we believe that our school will make a valuable contribution to their development. We value diversity and respect people of other faiths and we are a fully inclusive Catholic Primary Academy. We aim to create a secure and nurturing environment where children can develop their many gifts and talents, whatever they may be. We believe that Christ is at the centre of all that we do and therefore we offer every child a broad, balanced and relevant Curriculum in order to meet their spiritual, emotional, moral, intellectual and physical needs and to prepare them for the responsibilities of adult life. Academic excellence is one of our goals but we also value and nurture those special gifts that make each child unique.
Home/ School/ Parish links are vital. We value the contribution our parents make to school life and value the support offered by or local parish. Together, we ensure that St Paulinus remains a very special place for all.
We hope you find the information in these pages useful – I recommend sharing the virtue for the week as a family and talking about how we can see that virtue in every day life.
‘Pilgrimage of Hope’
On Thursday 24 April, staff, and pupils from St Ignatius Catholic Primary School (Ossett) visited us to hand over the ‘Journey of Hope’ banner. The "Pilgrims of Hope" refers to the theme for the Jubilee Year 2025 within the Roman Catholic Church, particularly in the Diocese of Leeds. As His Holiness Pope Francis so beautifully expressed it:
"We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision.”
During the Jubilee Year, the Pope invites every one of us to embark on a pilgrimage of hope, so that, "Through our witness, may hope spread to all those who anxiously seek it."
This is a time for joy, celebration, forgiveness, and reconciliation, as well as a time to renew hope and offer it to others. During the worship, we said prayers and sang the jubilee song which were linked to this year of hope for a world suffering the impacts of war, the ongoing effects of COVID-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis. At the end, the pupils from St Ignatius handed over the ‘pilgrimage of Hope’ banner to our children where we attached our school badge to the numerous others from the schools it had already visited. We then placed the banner in our dance studio where each year group took it in turns to visit and hold their own worship and prayer time. Then on Friday, at the end of mass, it was our turn to pass the banner onto St John Fishers so that it could continue on its journey as part of Pope Francis‘ pilgrimage of hope.
