Pope Francis' Laudato Si (“Praise be to you”) is a worldwide wake up call to help humanity understand the destruction that man is rendering to the environment and his fellow man.

'You are called to care for creation, not just as people but as followers of Jesus' (Pope Francis 2015).  Laudato Si is just part of our lives at Holy Family, but we also like to have focus time to really look into how we can care for the world.  This term we linked our Around the World Day with Laudato Si week and studied seas and oceans.

We have an 'Around the World' day each term.  We use these days to teach children about other areas of the world, and also link them to eco or conservation work being done in that area.  Around the World Days have looked at the Arctic and Antarctic, Tropical Rain Forests and Seas/Oceans.  Our aim is for the children to look at these parts of the world and to reflect upon the changes occurring to them.  We teach the children that if every single one of us does one thing to look after our world, that adds up to a lot of things (action).