We meet after school once a week to plan together on how we can reach out to the people in need in our community!
Autumn Term
This year, to begin our Mini Vinnie group, needed to select new members for our school. In order to to so, a range of children applied to be members of Mini Vinnies through an application process where they wrote a letter expressing how they wish to help in the community. As a result, children where appointed as Mini Vinnies for the rest of their time at St Kentigern's.
After the appointment of our new Mini Vinnie members we started great work on turning our concern into action.
During September, our Mini Vinnies , helped out with our Macmillan Cake Sale at school, helping to raise awareness of what we are doing as a school to raise money for cancer support and too helped to sell cakes during our coffee morning.
In October, the members of the group worked collaboratively with our Rights Respecting Team to create travelling rosary bags for each class to remember Mary during this month.
Following on this term, members of our group represented our school by attending a ' Hope in the Future' event where they gathered with other schools to praise and worship, share ideas , listen to inspiring speakers and reflect on how they can be ' Ambassadors for Christ' in our school and wider community.
During Autumn 2, the Mini Vinnies worked closely with the Rights Respecting Team during our weekly Monday meetings to create presentations about our Advent Campaign ' Kindess at Christmas'. During this the children then shared their campagin with their friends in class and helped identify the acts of kindess they had seen which made it to our weekly newsletter.
Furthermore, during advent the children created Christmas cards which Father Michael then delivered to those parishioners who were unable to attend church.
Spring Term
As we have now entered a new term in school the Mini Vinnies have been working hard on sharing ideas for Lent. When we meet together the children have suggested completing an Easter poster competition for all children in the school based on the theme ' The true meaning of Easter'. They have made information posters to be shared on their class seesaw pages and we look forward to seeing the enteries submitted over the season of Lent.
As children in year 3 are preparing for the sacrament of First Holy Communion, the Mini Vinnies Team suggested making a celebration card for them as they begin preparing for the next sacrament in their journey.
