A huge hello to all the groups that we’ve worked with since January, sorry I haven’t done individual messages to each group. I’ve loved working with so many different groups from Lent days with Year 6′s, music and chaplaincy training to starting our Confirmation Programmes in different parishes.

All of the groups have been amazing and made the job a lot of fun!

Sinéad

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Although we were all very tired after Team Conferenbce it was straight back to work on Monday and before we knew it we were planning all sorts of exciting stuff for the next few months.

Our first outing of the year was to CTU to get the ‘Born For This’ production going. It was great to see you all again and getting to spend time with you at your place. Who knew I was going to love badminton so much?! And the table tennis game – amazing! Can’t wait to work with you all again over the next few weeks leading up to the performance.

Then on Monday it was off to Blessed Robert Sutton, where we were lucky enough to get to work with the Year 9′s and the Sixth Formers. I really do hope a lot of you come to the briars next year because you were awesome! The school dinner was gorgeous!!! The afternoon that we spent with the Sixth Formers was so much fun and I loved being able to get involved in all the activities with you when exploring human rights.

Sinead

I loved small group time with mine and Matt’s group, you guys were a lot of fun and made me laugh a lot when we were practicing acting out our part of the Nativity story. The clip we watched the next day of all the groups acting their parts out was hilarious and people pulled of those amazing helmets very well!

It was great how everyone really got into character on the walk where we had to play either Mary, Joseph or the donkey – I did feel sorry for the donkeys, but had a lot of fun playing Joseph. The walk was a great chace to talk to so many of you!

Watching Home Alone was definitely one of the highlights, along with the popcorn, and definitely didn’t fail to get me in the Christmas mood!

Thanks to everyone for such an amazing weekend…everything was so relaxed and fun; and I think whenwe got a visit from Santa with our affirmations we could see how good the weekend was for us all. And what better way to round off a fantastic weekend tn with an amazing christmas dinner for us all to tuck into!

Sinead

On Monday we were at St Augustine Webster and you were all so welcoming from the very beginning in assembly. We had great fun playing ‘In the pond, Out the pond’ and I loved getting to know a lot of you better when making the boxes. The Advent Calendar the other class made was fantastic. I had so much fun doing the drama with some of you…you guys were awesome! Everyone did so well in Mass and it was great to have contributions from every class in the school.

I loved returning to my old school St Mary’s on Tuesday. Your breakfast club looked like so much fun…I wish I was there to play on the dance mat every morning! I could tell straight away from assembly it was going to be a great day, you were all full of enthusiasm and excitement. I had so much fun with all of you playing games to bring the Nativity story to life and loved our word of the day… ‘anticipation’. All of your drawings of the characters for the Advent Calendar were amazing and I hope you’ve all been sticking to the great promises you came up with. Thanks to everyone for their contributions to the Mass at the end of the day it was a great celebration to end a fantastic day!

It was a very early start on Wednesday to get to St Norbet’s but you guys definitely woke me up with your amazing singing of the songs with the word ‘gold’ in. The boxes you all made were really creative and looked great! I loved working with a few of you on making the stable for the Advent Calendar…the animal pen you made for it was a genius idea! I really enjoyed the Mass, especially all of the singing and dancing!

For our last Advent day we were at Hole Cross school. First of all…WOW… your Christmas tree was AMAZING! I absolutely loved how full of life you all were and I was so excited all day because we were having so much fun! The drawings you did for the cards that went in the Advent Calendar were fantastic… I love how you all jazzed them up by making them multicoloured or giving them cool clothes! Preparing the drama for Mass was a great laugh and you came up with an amazing idea…well done!

All of the schools we worked in were AMAZING and have really helped me to think about Advent and now I’m VERY excited for Christmas. Hope to see you all again!

Sinead

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Well done for Mass everyone it was fantastic!

Sinead

The boxes the Year 6′s made were really good and you all became experts at the game where we had to pass the squeeze along the line. i loved the Liturgy at the end of the day…all of the groups did really well.

Sinead

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Good luck with all the amazing work you do…you’ll all b fantastic!

Sinead

You guys ar awesome… I really enjoyed chatting to you all and you were all full of so much energy it was impossible to be around you and not be smiling and having a good time.

Well done on managing to make the paper boxes so well… you can all say you can do origami now! I loved playing the hoop game with you all and you all did really well to see how all the games applied to how we work together in a community. You guys are part of such a great community and I loved gettin to spend an afternoon as part of that community!

It was great to see some familiar faces around the school of people who I met last year at the briars!

Sinead