P1 celebrate Grandparents Day (Catholic Schools Week)

As part of catholic Schools Week 2023, the Primary 1 children had a lovely day when their grandparents came into visit our school. We had a fun, but messy, art session in the hall followed by tea, coffee and scones.

Then it was down the P1 classroom for a visit, a song, a prayer and some chatting about what school was like for them, when they were in P1.

We showed them a special video that we have been working on - telling them all the reasons we love them. 

Thank you for coming in and visiting us. We love our grandparents. 

Dear grandparents, dear elderly persons, we are called to be artisans of the revolution of tenderness in
our world! Let us do so by learning to make ever more frequent and better use of the most valuable
instrument at our disposal and, indeed, the one best suited to our age: prayer. ‘Let us too become, as
it were, poets of prayer: let us develop a taste for finding our own words, let us once again take up
those taught by the word of God’. Our trustful prayer can do a great deal: it can accompany the cry of
pain of those who suffer, and it can help change hearts. We can be ‘the enduring “chorus” of a great
spiritual sanctuary, where prayers of supplication and songs of praise sustain the community that toils
and struggles in the field of life’.
(Pope Francis’ Message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, 24 July 2022)