At St Joseph's, every single one of our children has a role to play in leading the Catholic Life of our school in an age appropriate way through:

• Planning liturgy and prayer time at a class and Key Stage level 
• Evaluating liturgy and prayer 
• Contributing to the evaluation of our Catholic life 
• Termly charity fundraising
• Social outreach to our local and global community, for example through food bank collections, school uniform collections, winter clothes collections, visiting the lonely and the sick 

In addition, our Pupil Leadership Team for Catholic Life consists of:

• 4 Year Six Catholic Life Leaders led by Mrs Hamilton 
• 14 Prayer Team members (2 children from Reception to Y6) led by Mr Hewitt
• 14 World Family Team members (2 children from Reception - Y6) led by Mrs Hamilton 
• 14  Mini Vinnies in Y3 - Y6 led by Miss McGough 

The Prayer Team 

• Meet once a month with Mr. Hewitt to discuss that month’s Prayer of the Month.
• Share the Prayer of the Month with their class and explain its meaning.
• Remind their class teacher to lead in the class in praying the Prayer the Month.
• Ensure that all daily prayers are said each day.
• Help Mr. Hewitt to monitor classroom prayer tables.
• Help Mr. Hewitt to ensure that our school prayer garden is clean and tidy.
• Write prayers specifically related to local, national and world current events.
• Listen carefully to one another during the monthly meeting, showing respect to all.
• Think of other ways to develop the prayer life of our school.

The World Family Team 

• Meet approximately once a half term with Mrs Hamilton
• Plan events for the whole school to help others in our local and world community through fundraising and practical action
• Feed back information from the meetings to the class
• Remind the class to take part in events
• Help to organise the events
• Think of ways that we can help
• Listen carefully to one another in the meeting, showing respect to all
• Show through their words and actions at all times that they are living out our mission

The Mini Vinnies 

• Meet once a month with Miss McGough
• See, think, do! They will ‘see’ an issue in their local community, ‘think’ about how they can help and ‘do’ something to turn their concerns into action
• Help to plan, organise and run the events they have chosen to ‘do’ to support others
• Pray for their local and global community during every meeting and lead the school and their classes in prayer and spiritual reflection at key times e.g. during fundraising campaigns led by the Mini Vinnies, on the feast day of St. Vincent de Paul etc.
• Listen carefully to one another in the meeting, showing respect to all
• Show through their words and actions at all times that they are living out their missions