Christ is the centre of our school community,

Where we live, love and learn together.

"Each one contributes by carrying out their daily tasks with commitment—and also with faith, because faith and prayer are like salt in food: they give it flavour." Pope Leo XIV

On this page you can access our Prayer and Liturgy Policy (below) and also access some additional resources to support prayer. 

At Our Lady of Lourdes we embed the teaching of traditional prayers and an understanding of the purpose of prayers into everyday classroom life. Children are taught a selection of new prayers each school year and already known prayers are consolidated by repeated use so that year on year they grow progressively more confident in understanding the prayer and selecting it themselves for their own use. Prayer is an inherent part of the school day for staff too and we find opportunities for prayer and reflection at briefings and staff meetings.

Holy Rosary at OLOL

All children at OLOL have access to Rosary Beads and it is a devotion that we are very attached to, due in no small part to our patronage of Our Lady of Lourdes. Each class has large model sets so that we can learn the order of the prayers and children can access Rosary Beads for class prayer, in the holy months of May and October (when Mary and the Rosary are the focal point of devotion), in spontaneous prayer and in Mass when parishioners pray the Rosary before a school or weekend Mass. 

A Million Children Praying - ACN

Each year we join in with the global efforts to raise the profile of the Rosary, aligned with the hopes held by Padre Pio (St Pio of Pietrelcina) who said  “when one million children pray the Rosary, the world will change.”