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When students join Our Lady Queen of Peace, they are encouraged to take part in the Faith in Action Award.
Aims
The Faith in Action Award facilitates an exploration of scripture and Church teaching, with an emphasis on translating this into action. It encourages students to grow in faith, give service to others as well as take time for personal reflection.
Award Levels
There are three levels of award that can be achieved Year 7 onwards : Pin, Bronze, Silver and Gold. Students accumulate credits of service in their parish and / or school and the wider community. The Faith in Action Award builds on what students already experience in serving others, asking them to reflect upon it so that they may find new ways of living out and exploring their faith. There is an opportunity for both guided reflections, through group reflection points and personal reflection, through journaling. At the end of the scheme, students submit a final piece of work for moderation before being awarded their Faith in Action Award.
Bronze – Service
The Bronze Level Award rewards service in faith and helps students understand how faith binds people together so that they all belong to the community we call the Church. This award level is accessed by Y7 students. Students engaged in this level will begin to see that their faith and action not only makes them belong to a community, but makes them responsible in some small way for the well-being of all others who belong, too.
To achieve this level, students need to regularly play a substantive role in school or parish events which show that they understand belonging to community involves responsibility for it and also take a role in events away from their home base.
Silver – Leadership
The Silver Level focuses on leadership. It encourages young people to ask themselves what kind of person they want to be. In answering this question, young people begin to discern their vocation as a gift from God and respond to that gift in faith. As a result of journeying through this award level, students should realise that p/what they do is a direct consequence of the kind of person they are. Students are challenged to respond to God’s call.
Gold – Innovation
The Gold Level Award not only requires ongoing commitment to active service, but innovation. This award promotes new spiritual and personal growth. It rewards a maturity of faith which leads to innovation and development in terms of outreach and missionary work on behalf the Church community. Students will clearly see the link between their growth and the well-being of those they hope to serve. Some acts of service have to be done independently outside of existing parish structures for the missionary aspect to really mean something. This could be, for example, taking a leadership role on a Lourdes pilgrimage or organising a charity fundraiser.