{"id":262,"date":"2011-08-08T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T12:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/?page_id=262"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:24:46","slug":"school-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/?page_id=262","title":{"rendered":"School Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/candle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/candle-300x113.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>At some point in our lives all of us need some kind of support. The School Chaplain is there to support the school community in a pastoral capacity and provides an open-door whereby all members of the school community can receive support in a safe and confidential manner. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Catherine Clarke<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the full-time Chaplain in Portmarnock Community School. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the services that she provides in the day to day running of PCS are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Working closely with the Religion Department to promote the spiritual aspects of school life <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Teaching RE. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Organizing school retreats and guest speakers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Offering opportunities for prayer\/reflection and meditation throughout the school day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Providing one to one support for students, staff and parents and being available to support the school community especially in times of bereavement or personal crises<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Organizing Liturgical events during the year. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Attendance at all year group assemblies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Maintaining Parish links<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Promoting well-being within the school community and a member of the Pastoral Care Team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Charity and Outreach Involvement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Promoting and supporting leadership within the school community, Catherine is the co-ordinator of the perfecting system and supports senior students in this role. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Please feel free to contact Catherine at anytime on 8038061<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in our lives all of us need some kind of support. The School Chaplain is there to support the school community in a pastoral capacity and provides an open-door whereby all members of the school community can receive support in a safe and confidential manner. &nbsp; Catherine Clarke is the full-time Chaplain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}