Chaplaincy
Confirmation Classes:
Thursday 12.30 - 1.30pm & 5.00-6.00pm
Mass Times:
Wednesday 12.30pm
Sunday 10.30am
Night Prayer in the Chapel:
Campion House: Monday 7.30pm
Hawley House: Monday 8.30pm
Priory House: Wednesday 7.15pm (Junior Boys)
More House & Priory House: 8.30pm (Sixth Form)
Willow:
Willow is a group of senior prefects committed to the promotion of good relationships among students. Willow is student-based and deals with student-to-student issues. Only when appropriate and in extreme cases will there be staff input.
Aims:
- to improve communication, understanding and relationships within the school.
- to encourage self-confidence, compassion and tolerance in all.
- to train New Hall students to be independent and assertive.
- to put into practice New Hall’s anti bullying policy as published in the student handbook.
- to make all students understand the range of forms that bullying takes, to recognise when it is happening, and to take action to stop it.
Distinctive Features of the New Hall Chaplaincy
Prayer
- A place of daily prayer - God is placed at the centre of our lives through communal worship
- Rooted in Augustinian spirituality and the traditions and insights of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre
- “The Chapel is at the heart of the school” (Diocesan RE Inspection Report, 2005)
Paschal Mystery
- Proclamation of the Resurrection: “The Lord is Risen, Alleluia” (words above the altar in New Hall Chapel)
- Special focus on the events of Christ’s passion, death and Resurrection and how this same transforming power at work in the Paschal Mystery brings joy and healing today
Community
- We grow as individuals through community life, respecting our differences and valuing each person as made “in the image and likeness of God” (Genesis 1:26)
- A place where relationships are “based on Gospel values of trust and respect” (New Hall Mission Statement)
Service to others
- In serving others we meet Christ and grow in love for each other: our faith becomes actions not words
- Fostering a love for justice and a special concern for the poor and helpless
- Founded over 25 ago, NHVS runs 8 weekly Action Groups and an annual Children’s Holiday, supporting 100 people in need in the local community through 200 student volunteers and around 20 adult volunteer supporters, from a register of 150.
- “The New Hall Voluntary Service is a great strength of the school. It is an excellent organisation.” (Independent Schools’ Inspectorate (ISI) Report, 2004).
- NHVS was awarded the Nationwide Building Society Award for Voluntary Endeavour(May, 2005)
- Emphasis on annual charity fundraising
Hospitality
- A place where all are welcome
- Special emphasis on welcoming visitors as Christ, for He said: I was a stranger and you welcomed me
