This week in our school community: 13 November 2026
...fill your lives with things that are true, honourable, upright, pure and worthy of admiration.
Remembrance Day Commemorations
Thank you to all students and supportive families who this week enabled us to worthily commemorate the fallen in St Gregory’s and our local community. Mrs Sarbatta led assemblies that brought names, truth and life to six individuals allowing us to keep their memory alive. We celebrated remembrance Masses on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 for the whole school allowing us to keep prayer intrinsically linked to Armistice Day. During one of the Masses, Fr Tibor reminded us that the antidote to war is people filling their lives and person with divine things. In the words of the letter to the Philippians, fill your lives with things that are true, honourable, upright, pure and worthy of admiration. From this and showing gratitude brings about great blessings and enables a world of people who can love and be at peace.
On the 11th the whole school paused for two minutes of silence led by the piercing trumpet call of the Last Post played by Josh in Year 7. Some of our students and staff stood side by side with other school children, inter-faith leaders and servicemen and women at Firs Field memorial ground, many in their cadet uniforms. Throughout all our moments of remembrance we were proud of the respect and maturity shown by every one of our St Gregory’s family.Alongside the workshops and keynote sessions, the students met daily in eleven small groups to reflect on the experience with students from different schools, each accompanied by one of the Volunteers from Kintbury. Students also had the chance to share best practices in building Lasallian Identity from their schools. The days also made room for reflection time, prayer and evenings of fun and games. The programme closed with a commissioning, sending students home as builders of a better world.
Mr Robinson
Lay Chaplain
