Kilgraston celebrates Goals Day 2021
Each year Kilgraston focuses on one of the five Sacred Heart Goals, with Goals Day an opportunity for the whole school to spend time working on projects and in groups to learn about the year’s theme in more detail, hear from influential people in that field and work on action plans.
This year’s Sacred Heart Goal is ‘Community’ and this term we have focused on the idea of community in terms of our relationships with each other, charity and environmental awareness.
Upper Sixth have just led a Charities Week for the school, which has involved every year group researching and presenting information about a charity they would like to support throughout the year.
This information has been turned into artwork and information posters (displayed in various locations throughout the school) as well as a special video about the different charities. Upper Sixth also brought back iPray24, but this time as iPray12+12. The Side Chapel was beautifully arranged and decorated into a range of prayer stations, whereby individuals or classes could come and visit from 7.00am-7.00pm over two days.
Charities Week culminated in this term’s ‘Goals Day’ on Thursday 7th October, where we celebrated our own Kilgraston community with a range of fun activities, including a charity ‘Soak the Staff and Upper 6’ fundraiser for CHAS!
We were honoured to welcome Anya Hart Dyke, our special guest speaker for the day, who inspired our junior and senior pupils with engaging and interactive talks about the environment. Anja
We were also inspired by Upper Four Katie’s presentation about her parents’ farm, which then led into a goal-setting session to support the UN’s International Day of the Girl. The chaplain was very grateful to the Head Girl Team and Upper 6 for their wonderful contributions to the planning and delivery of all these events – a brilliant demonstration of community!
Goals Day 2021 at Kilgraston
Each year, Sacred Heart schools around the world focus on one of the five goals of the Sacred Heart. This year, Kilgraston has been focusing on the goal of ‘Intellect’. In addition to assemblies and activities in classes throughout the year, we held a special ‘Goal Day on Friday 11th June 2021.
The day began with an outdoor Mass on our beautiful front lawn. Because we were outside, all of the school community was able to take part (and sing!) .
On the theme of ‘Intellect’, one of the fun activities we tried was to learn a new skill. The Upper Sixth leavers designed a line dance and then taught it to every year group – this then culminated in the whole school trying the line dance together outside, and every year group managed to perform it with enthusiasm! As well as learning the set routine, there were some very impressive ‘freestyle’ moves, too!
We also held some inter-house board game challenges, with house points on offer for participation (and victory!). Staff and pupils brought in a range of board games that held a degree of intellectual challenge, and these were played throughout the day.
There was also the opportunity for some extra inter-house rivalry, with inter-house rounders tournaments for the year groups being all day, ending with a special Sixth Form v Staff game.
Thank you to all in our school community for making this such a wonderful day.