The LiveSimply award is an opportunity for Catholic communities - parishes, schools, religious orders and chaplaincies - to respond to Pope Francis’ invitation in Laudato Si' to “work with generosity and tenderness in protecting this world which God has entrusted to us”.

As a school community we are on a journey with Christ towards the LiveSimply award.

Loving God, you made this beautiful world that we all share. 

Help us to live simply,  

and be thankful for all that you have given us 

Help us to look after our earth, 

So that everyone may enjoy it. 

Help us to share with others, 

so that everyone has what they need. 

Amen.  

The LiveSimply Award is awarded to schools who can show how they have been living:

• simply
• in solidarity with people in poverty
• sustainably with creation.

Over the course of the next 12 months, we will be working towards our award with a number of different actions. 

GLOBAL

LIVE IN SOLIDARITY

CAFOD Big Lent Walk
Take part in CAFOD’s Big Lent Walk to raise money for CAFOD and support communities around the world.

LIVE IN SOLIDARITY

CAFOD Campaign – Food and Food Waste
Take part in a CAFOD campaign to learn about and help address the world’s broken food system. We will also look at food waste within our own community and consider practical ways in which we can reduce it.

LIVE IN SOLIDARITY

Choose Fairtrade
Change the tea, coffee and sugar used in school to Fairtrade products. Choosing Fairtrade provides additional income, support and opportunities for some of the world’s poorest communities as they work to build sustainable and prosperous futures.

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LOCAL

LIVE SUSTAINABLY / LIVE SIMPLY

Buy Less, Share More
Develop a culture of ‘buy less, share more’ through book swaps and uniform swaps. We will link this to our annual Trashion Show, raising awareness of fast fashion and encouraging more sustainable choices.

LIVE IN SOLIDARITY

Support Our Local Food Bank
Provide more opportunities for our families to donate to a local food bank. Pupils will help to sort donated items, including checking dates as advised by the food bank, and will support the delivery of donations.

LIVE SUSTAINABLY

Laudato Si’ and Caring for Our Local Environment
Share the importance of Pope Francis’ message in Laudato Si’ with the whole school community through Collective Worship. Children will then put this message into action by taking part in a litter pick along the road outside school.

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SCHOOL

LIVE SUSTAINABLY

Promote Biodiversity
Create and maintain a range of habitats within our school grounds to encourage wildlife and promote biodiversity.

LIVE SUSTAINABLY / LIVE SIMPLY

Eco-Club and CAFOD Club
Establish an Eco-Club and CAFOD Club to help lead our school in initiatives focused on saving energy, caring for our school grounds, living sustainably and giving back to the local and global community.

LIVE SIMPLY

Spiritual Garden Team
Establish a Spiritual Garden Team to care for and develop this special area. This will enable Collective Worship to take place more regularly in our Spiritual Garden and provide opportunities for pupils to pray, reflect and appreciate God’s creation

CAFOD Club

“We are God’s work of art.”

The CAFOD Club are a group of children from KS2 who are also our Eco-Champions. They lead our school in following the guidelines of Pope Francis's Laudato Si book that encourages us as Christians to 'Care for our Common Home.'

Our CAFOD club helps our pupils to live out their faith and strongly supports the 

Catholic life of our school.  The children have presented assemblies, created displays and taken special messages about liturgy to the classes.

Laudato Si - Care for Our Common Home

Our children came together for a beautiful Collective Worship to share the importance of Pope Francis' message of the Care for our Common Home in Laudato Si.

Sustainable Living 

Our children have really enjoyed planting their seeds and bulbs. We are hoping that our children will go out into community and share with their families the fantastic skills that they have learned when doing this. We are looking forward to tracking the growth that is going to take place!

Energy Use 

Anne-Marie Clegg from Sefton Eco-Savers came to visit our school and to lead an assembly.

She told us about the impact of our energy use on the environment and gave some really fantastic information to help our school work towards being more eco-friendly and energy efficient. 

Reducing Waste 

We have been blown away by the fantastic wind chime projects that have been completed by our children at home! The purpose of this activity was to reinforce the importance of making use of what we have got and to also help our school community show to others that what some may consider to be waste, others can turn into something beautiful.

Looking after our Future World 

Our Year 6 children took part in a workshop led by Gillmoss Recycling Centre. They learned all about the need for sustainable living and designed how they want their future world to look. 

CAFOD CST Workshops 

Thank you to the wonderful CAFOD Liverpool volunteers for coming along to our school and sharing with us the importance of the keys of Catholic Social Teaching especially as we continue to work on our Live Simply Award!

During this Collective Worship they shared the importance of sharing our blessings with our Global neighbours during Lent. They reminded us that our Big Lent Walk, as part of our Live Simply Award is a way for us to raise funds so CAFOD can help others around the world.