Catholic Life and Mission

Please read our R.E Newsletter so you can get a sense of Catholic life here in St Adrian’s

Below is our Catholic Life and Mission Policy which outlines how we live out our Catholic mission in St Adrian’s.

Catholic Life and Mission Policy – July 2025

Jubilee Year – Pilgrims of Hope

This year, the church is celebrating the Jubilee Pilgrims of Hope Year.

The prayer leaders led a Celebration of the Word to launch Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year. They introduced the jubilee prayer, gave out prayer cards so that the children can begin to learn the prayer and also displayed a huge banner to let everyone know that we really are Pilgrims of Hope.

Click on the link below to view the assembly.

Jubilee 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope assembly

Through the year, we have been thinking about how we can be pilgrims of hope and stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world to work for a world filled with hope, peace and love.

In solidarity with others around the world, we developed our jubilee pledge that ‘God is everywhere, so pray anywhere’. We spread the message of hope by taking our jubilee banner with us on school journeys.

The prayer leaders visited Westminster Cathedral to celebrate the Festival of Hope with pupils from schools all over the diocese. They delivered their pledge as part of the service. It was a great occasion and the children enjoyed all the prayerful activities that they were able to do in workshops before the service.

Remembering Pope Francis (1936 – 2025)

We remember Pope Francis in this sad time of mourning. He was a true example of following in Jesus’ footsteps as a humble servant. Please click on the link below where you can see all the lovely work the children have done to remember the importance of his life.

Remembering Pope Francis 1936-2025

Eternal rest grant onto him O Lord

and let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace. Amen

Celebrating Sixty Years of St Adrian’s Catholic Primary School

During the height of the pandemic in 2020, St Adrian’s 60th Anniversary occured. We felt that this occasion should be marked and so to begin our school year in 2022, we would normally hold a Mercy Mass. The Sisters of Mercy founded the school and it opened in September 1960. The Maryland Associates, the lay people in St Albans, still advocate their work and very kindly donated a tree and a plaque in commemoration of this special anniversary.

Previous Headteachers, Sr. Margaret, Mrs Yvonne Hawkes and Mr Dominic Bedford joined us for the celebrations. As well as some original pupils whose names were in the first register.

Report of the day written by Lily- Year 6

On Wednesday 5th October , we celebrated the Mercy Mass for our school (it had been postponed because of Covid) and I am very happy that I got my Chaplaincy team tie and I am part of our new Chaplaincy Team. I also got to see my old Headteachers like, Mrs Hawkes and Mr Bedford.

There was also another Headteacher, which was the Headteacher when my mum went to this school. Her name was Sister Margaret. I knew this mass was a very joyous occasion because Brother Nelson Dionne, Father Michael O’boy as well as Bishop Paul Mc Aleenan were all there. We got gifted from Mrs Cath White the secretary of the Maryland associates who carry on the work of the sisters of Mercy, a tree which we have planted at the main entrance where the parents and staff members came to watch.
Then, all of the classes planted little flowers around this tree. There are also ribbons around this tree which the old Head teachers put on there . They put the word ‘TRUTH’ and the colour of the ribbon was red for the martyrs who spoke the truth of God’s word. They tied the word PEACE – blue is the colour of tranquility. We work for peace and tranquillity in our school and the world. Finally , they tied the word JUSTICE with a yellow ribbon witch is the colour for true happiness. The Chaplaincy team, parents and teachers and the priests attended the ceremony.
I was worried about it because I had a reading. The reason why I was worried was because of the amount of people that were there but it was all OK. It was a very good day. It made me think more about our school motto ‘To learn, to love ,to live as a community of God with Christ as our teacher.’ It was a good day. It made me feel like I was important because of the new tie and that I could be part of our Chaplaincy Team.