Catholic Social Teaching
Generosity, generosity, generosity must be the beginning and ending of our life.
Cornelia Connelly
Understanding Catholic Social Teaching and following its guidance is a key driver of the Mayfield School experience. All areas of the school understand their responsibility in helping our students understand the teachings. As such, pupils take a leading role and are pro-active in finding ways of responding, locally, nationally, and globally to the demands of the teachings.
Fundraising
Each year, the Chaplain and the Charities Prefect select a suitable Whole School Charity, towards which all funds raised in that year will go. With some small exceptions, all funds raised by the various efforts throughout the school will go towards said charity.
Our priority, when choosing charities to support, is to focus on smaller, grass roots charities, preferably with some sort of link to the School. While the charity does not have to be Catholic or Christian in name, it must not have any aims or goals contrary to Catholic Teaching.
Justice & Peace Group's 'Sleep Out' raises over £2,000 for Cardinal Hume Centre
Outreach
The school motto is “Actions not Words”. Here at Mayfield, it’s more than a motto. The Actions not Words programme enables and empowers our students and staff to reach out and to serve the local community.
Engagement with local primary schools is very important, whether that is sending students to the schools regularly, as mentors or reading buddies, or hosting primary schools on our campus for retreat days, sports coaching or science, maths, or language workshops.
Actions not Words, while lived out throughout the school, is formalised in Year 12, with students committing a minimum of an hour per week to a recognised Action not Words programme. Current Actions not Words programmes include mentoring in local primary and pre-schools, and Team Green, committed to care for Creation.
