Chaplaincy Team

St Norbert’s Chaplaincy Team

Key Stage 2 children have the opportunity to serve our school as part of the chaplaincy team. Anyone can apply and often children put others forward.
The Chaplaincy team play a vital role in the spiritual life of the school and are supported by the School Chaplain and Collective Worship leader.

The Aims of our Chaplaincy team include the following:

  • To help the school to grow as a community of faith.
  • To encourage the pupils to live their faith in daily living.
  • To support prayer and liturgy and the spiritual life of the school generally.
  • To continue to involve pupils in fundraising for charities.
  • To support the school community to live out the school virtues and principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
  • To support the school in its Mission Statement.

Our Chaplaincy Team would like to offer five tips which they think make a successful pupil led Chaplaincy Team:

  1. Listen to each other’s ideas.
  2. Communicate with all team members (school and parish).
  3. Encourage everyone when making decisions to share their ideas and to try their best.
  4. Include everyone when making decisions.
  5. Lead by example: love everyone and care for everyone, especially people you don’t get on with!

Mrs Wright is our hub Lay Chaplain. She visits our school every Thursday. Mrs Wright supports our Catholic Life and mission by creating resources to aid us in our own faith journeys and to support our wider community in sharing in this with us. She also leads our termly retreat days and meets regularly with the Chaplaincy Team to support with lunchtime activity and prayer groups. 

Mrs Wright

Mrs Wright

Our Lead Lay Chaplain is Hannah Leech and the Director of Chaplaincy for the Our Lady of Lourdes Multi Academy Trust is Tom Baptist. It is always a joy to have our Chaplains join us in school or to see them on screen on such special occasions as the Trust Synod.

In addition, we are also privileged to be able to access resources and access of our Academy Trust through the Chaplaincy.Space website which can be found here. On this website, you will find the Celebration of the word planning sheets, templates for writing different types of prayers and the Extra-Ordo-Nary document from which we take the Word of the Week.