Lent 2025

During Lent, the whole school joined together and put our faith into action by raising money for CAFOD World Gifts. This is another step on our LiveSimply journey and reminds us of the Catholic Social Teaching principle 'Option for the Poor and Vulnerable' where we learn that God wants us to help people who are poor, who don't have enough food, a safe place to live or a community.

We welcomed Clive from CAFOD to our whole school assembly to talk to us about the work that the agency does to support people overseas.

Each class revisited Pope Francis' Fratelli Tutti 'asking us to reach out to our sisters and brothers in need, whoever they are, wherever they may come from.
cafod.org.uk/education/fratelli-tutti-for-schools

We decided to link our Catholic Social Teaching with Design and Technology by taking part in a variety of baking and cooking projects during the last week of term : all the money will go towards CAFOD.

In addition, we raised £194 for CAFOD during our 'Wear Green for St Patrick's Day' 

Here is the link for CAFOD World Gifts if you wish to find out more information.
worldgifts.cafod.org.uk/pages/schools

Harvest 2024

Supporting North Oxford Community Foodbank

As we entered into the season of Harvest, St Thomas More School continued to make a real effort to support the work of the North Oxfordshire Community Foodbank, based here in Kidlington. Families brought donations of essential food and household items to be distributed to those that need them most in our local community.

North Oxfordshire Community Foodbank is a voluntary group formed by members of local Christian churches.  Their aim is to provide food parcels to people within the Kidlington, Woodstock, Chipping Norton and Charlbury area. The parcels will contain essential food for individuals and families in case of emergency, covering the time it takes for other social care infrastructure to come into play.

Harvest 2024 Letter to Parents

Lent 2024

Fundraising for CAFOD (Catholic Agency For Overseas Development)

Our Lenta charity in 2024 was CAFOD. Pupils received a CAFOD envelope to save money they would normally spend on sweets and other treats. A member of CAFOD came and addressed the children about the essential work of the organisation during a whole school assembly. This helped us all recognise where the money we raise is going and also showed who and how the funds are helping through the work of the charity.

We encouraged the children to participate in:

• Raising funds for an important charitable cause
• Practising a Lenten discipline

Charity events 2023-2024

In 2023-2024 the children took part in a variety of charity events throughout the year such as Show Racism the Red Card where the children wore red to school on Friday 20th of October and donated what they found affordable to the cause.

We also collected food donations for the local food bank at Harvest and Christmas.

The School Council continue to discuss and help organise charitable events to raise money for local charities and our school in each big term.