Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary School

Catholic Social Teaching

Catholic Life and Mission Policy 

This is a lovely clip explaing Catholic Social Teaching:

https://cafod.org.uk/education/primary-teaching-resources/cst-resources-for-children

Catholic Life and Mission Report 

Spiritual, Moral, Social & Cultural Policy

The underlying insight is that everyone has the right and responsibility to live in our world constructively, not destructively and to ensure that we leave it in a better state than we entered it.  At the core of Catholic Social Teaching are a number of key concepts and principles.

At Our Lady's we focus on the following Catholic Social Teaching Principles:-

Human Dignity, Participation, Option for the Poor, Promoting Peace, The Common Good and Solidarity.  Stewardship is one of our School Values.

At the beginning of this autumn term each class discussed the Catholic Social Teaching principles and created a class display which the children will use to celebrate when they have demonstrated carrying out a CST principle.   At each celebration assembly two pupils are also awarded a CST Certificate to celebrate their actions.  There is also a display in the Father Oliver room to celebrate the children who have received a certificate.

Every Friday morning the teachers and children also celebrate those pupils who have demonstrated a Catholic Social Teaching Principle and Value during the week (as shown on the class display).

You will also see in the Curriculum Year Group Overviews that we have selected a Catholic Social Teaching Principle for each half term in order to fully embed Catholic Social Teaching into our Curriculum and School Life.  During each topic there is a key question related to a Catholic Social Teaching Principle which will be discussed and answers/thoughts/ideas recorded in the children's books with the relevant CST sticker included too.