School closures: Home activities

In the Catholic Church, October has long been associated with mission. Pope Francis reaffirmed this by designating October 2019 an Extraordinary Month of Mission (EMM). Children rallied to the call of EMM and inspired by their efforts, this year we’re encouraging schools to focus again on October as a month of mission. To support schools,…

For the second year running, Mission Together (the children’s branch of Missio) received a flurry of wonderful entries to its Lent Through a Lens photo competition. Children were invited to submit images which they felt represented the season of Lent. Schools across the country (and one from the United States of America), rose to the…

Pupils at the Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School in Northampton started the new year discovering how they can become ‘children helping children’ by joining their prayers with children around the world. The children from reception to Year 6 gave a very warm welcome to our Mission Together volunteer, Dr Sue Barter, who ran our first…

When we heard that pupils from St Thomas More Primary School had taken it upon themselves to raise funds for Mission Together, we were keen to pass on our thanks. And so, on Thursday 8 December, we paid a visit to the school to meet this Class 4 team of inspiring supporters. The children explained…

Although May proved to be an incredibly rainy month, it did not dampen the Spirit, present in the many Queen of the May crowing ceremonies that took place in schools across the country. Having created new resources to encourage the honouring of Mary, whom Pope Francis calls ‘the first missionary’, we were delighted with the…