Parishioners’ Christmas Afternoon Tea

On Tuesday 16th December, we welcomed local parishioners in to school to join us for a Christmas Afternoon Tea!

Our Youth SVP Group took the lead with the preparations, organising decorations, entertainment and bingo and our Junior 1804 offered a very warm welcome to all our visitors.

Parishioners from OLA, Gateacre and St Wilfrid’s enjoyed a variety of delicious finger sandwiches and cakes provided by our amazing catering team and tea and coffee was served by members of our 6th form 1804 Society.

We ended our time together with a short reflection, thinking about what our Christmas prayer or wish is this year. Visitors, students and staff all added their wish to a paper link that was added to a group paper chain, to remind us of how connected we are.

The paper chain now hangs at our altar in the chapel and our prayers will be offered at this Friday Morning’s Mass.

After finishing with a rousing Christmas sing-a-long, everyone left with a smile on their face and the students were a credit to themselves, their families and the school!