Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is based on the belief that God has a plan for His creation, a plan to build his kingdom of earth. We know that we all have a part to play in this plan. This isn’t just limited to spiritual things, but that it involves every aspect of our lives, from the things we pray about, to how we live as a responsible global citizens. We have a responsibility to play a part in the common good, a call to treat everyone as our brothers and sisters because God is our Father. 

The Catholic Church has seven principles of social teaching that we share with our children through all that we do, through the curriculum, special events, charitable works, activity and through our ordinary actions in school.

Key Themes:

CST is built around the following, several core principles:

• Human dignity – every person is valued and deserves respect.

• The common good – society should be organised so all can flourish.

• Solidarity – standing with others, especially the vulnerable.

• Subsidiarity – decisions should be made at the most local, effective level.

• Care for creation – recognising our responsibility for the environment.

• Preferential option for the poor – prioritising the needs of those who are disadvantaged.

• Promoting peace – resolving conflict thriugh justice, dialogue and cooperation.

• Distributive justice – everyone should have access to their fair share of resources

• Participation - we all have the right and duty to participate fully in society

We use the CST friends to help us...

September 2025

This year, every prayer table around school have Catholic Social Teaching cards and the children are striving to show their Catholic values in every day life so the animals can be placed onto their desk.

'By showing Catholic social teaching, we are doing our school mission to build God's kingdom like the parable of the mustard seed!' - Abigail, C5

CTK day 2025

Year 5 spent some time creating their own Catholic Social Teaching animal to represent Hope!

Catholic Social Teaching Day (September 2023)

The children enjoyed a Catholic Social Teaching day. They completed lots of work and art-based activities depicting the ways in which we should look after God’s creation, using the CST principals. Through the introduction of child friendly characters of the each of the CST principals, the children discussed ways to bring about God’s Kingdom on earth.

We have been paying particular attention to the principal of ‘Human Dignity’, where the children met Luc the Deer.

The children loved singing the song about Luc the Deer-

“Can you hear what Luc the deer is telling us to see? Everyone is special; that’s human dignity.”

As part of the day, and with the help of some of our musically gifted teachers, the children have also selected a song to help us to focus our Mission Statement. The staff and pupils voted on their favourite Mission Statement ‘jingle’ (all very democratic at CtK!). It was a fine line, but the winning tune won with 52% of votes compared to 48%. Have no fear, you will soon be singing it alongside your children!

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