Category Archives: Schools

All Saints meet the Queen

Children from the Salesian parish of St James, Bootle, accompanied by the head teacher of All Saints RC School, Angela Holleran, teachers, Lynn Carsley and Catherine Eccleshall, together with their parish priest, Gerry O’Shaughnessy sdb were special guests of the Royal and Commonwealth Society at a special service of worship in the historic Westminster Abbey [...]

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Chertsey in the North West

On a rainy Friday morning in January, 14 boys set off at 07:30 from Salesian School Chertsey accompanied by Dr Lydon and Mr Bicknell to play two games against Thornleigh Salesian College Bolton and Savio Salesian College Bootle.

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Three Islands Meeting

After the success of the 3-Islands meeting in Bollington last year, the Youth Ministry teams of the British, Irish and Maltese Provinces descended upon Maynooth for a weekend of sharing and learning. The working motif for the weekend was ‘a journey to, in and from the desert’, as in the desert, our questions may not [...]

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Savio Salesian College in Observer Ethical Awards!

Savio Salesian College in Bootle was included in this years Observer Ethical Awards! The year 8 and year 9 Duke of Edinburgh Award group made a hybrid bird and bat box. Read about it here, and see students and staff from Savio in a video about the bird/bat box on the Guardian website here.

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Understanding Inculturation or How I changed

This is an interesting article by Brother Matt, a young Salesian Brother from Poland taken from Don Bosco Today (Summer 2010). Last year he completed a year’s work experience as a teaching assistant in a Salesian School in England A car, a mobile, money and a girlfriend – that makes you a man nowadays. That’s [...]

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One Family in the Eyes – Salesian Student Charter

Organised by Fr James Gallagher SDB and Mr Kevin Regan, the 7th Annual Salesian Student Leadership Gathering took place at Savio House in March 2011. The continued success of these events was evident in the presence of fifty three students accompanied by their teachers. This was the largest gathering to date. As always the students [...]

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Salesian School Chertsey and the Church School Awards

2010-11 marked the first year of the Church School Awards. Schools with a religious character in England and Wales were invited to submit an application stating ways in which they contributed to the wider community, locally, nationally and internationally, together with an account of the work of the RE Department. Over 300 schools submitted applications [...]

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Thornleigh Student Council

Last Friday, a group of 8 representatives from the Thornleigh Student Council went to Savio House in Bollington for a leadership weekend. Present at the event were representatives from the six Salesian schools in England. Students were able to share good practise and learn from the experience of students in the other schools as well [...]

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VIDEO: Students from Salesian School Chertsey go to India

Fr Andrew Ebrahim went to India with a group of sixth formers to visit their link school, Don Bosco Park Circus. They made a video about their trip, you can watch the clip from youtube below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J8miNffyfs httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J8miNffyfs

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Student Voice 2010!

In October 2010, student representatives from Salesian College Battersea, Salesian School Farnborough, Savio Salesian College Bootle and St John Bosco Arts College Croxteth met at Savio House Bollington for the sixth Salesian Student Leadership Gathering. Ms Kendall from St John Bosco, Ms Adams from Bootle, Mr Moore from Farnborough and Mr Regan and Mr Georgiou [...]

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