Catholic Social Teaching

Catholic Social Teaching is founded in Scripture and includes statements and letters written by Church leaders. It offers wisdom and insights on living the Gospel in today’s world.

Jesus tells us to love God and to love our neighbours, especially our sisters and brothers living in poverty. We use Catholic Social Teaching principles to guide our actions in our daily lives.

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Pope Francis continues to add to Catholic Social Teaching with his own encyclicals, including Laudato Si’ (2015) and Fratelli Tutti (2020).

From these Catholic Social Teaching documents and encyclicals we derive core principles.

Catholic Social Teaching at Holy Rosary

Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is a key part of life at Holy Rosary. To help our community to understand and embrace these principles, we use a range of different resources.

Display posters depicting the key principles have been created and are displayed around the school. These are linked to scripture and the images used are accompanied by a symbol to help children make links to these principles.

Dignity of the Human Person 

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Family and Community

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Solidarity and Common Good

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Rights and Responsibilities

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Dignity of Work

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Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

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Stewardship

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Staff use these to develop their knowledge and understanding of how to live out that principle in their daily lives. 

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The Symbols we use in school are used to show links between these principles and our everyday lives. These symbols are used in all lessons in school to show their links to other subject areas. These have been used to create stickers that are added to pieces of work when themes link to Catholic Social teaching.

IMG_1917.jpg Each class has taken responsibility for developing a Catholic Social teaching pole which is displayed on the path into school and displays the symbols of the Catholic teaching principles.

Caritas in Action

Each week we award The Caritas "Love in action" award. These children have been recognised for their commitment to putting love in action in our school community.  Here are our Award winners.

Attendance

New Attendance Penalty Notice


First offence – the first time a penalty notice is issued. The amount will be £80 per parent, per child paid within 21 days. This increases to £160 per parent, per child if paid after day 21 until day 28th. Any non-payments of the Penalty Notice may be referred to the magistrate court.


Second offence – (within 3 years) – the second time a penalty notice is issued. The amount will be £160 per parent, per child paid within 28 days. Any non-payment of the Penalty Notice may be referred to the Magistrate Court.


Third offence and any further offences (within 3 years) – the third time and offence is committed. A Penalty Notice will not be issued and the case may be presented straight to the Magistrate Court under S444 of the Education Act (1996) or any other legal interventions considered. The magistrates court can order fines up to £2500 per parent, per child.


Please see the attendance section of the website or letters home for further clarification.