Talent Project

St Wilfrid’s is soon to be housed in a brand new school. However, as a whole school community we still have to raise money to provide for a new Chapel. ‘The Talent Project’ is our first whole school initiative to kick start fundraising for this project whilst linking the activity to our Business and Enterprise with Ethics status and the Catholicity of the school which makes us stand out from other local schools.

The Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) teaches us how we are under a moral obligation to use our gifts rather than to waste them. It is in this way that we want to encourage our students to do the same in a safe, enterprising, legal and ethical way.

On the 23rd March 2007, each student is to be given £1.oo. We would like them to use their ‘talent’ –the £1.oo coin - combined with their own unique ‘talents’ (such as singing, dancing, hard-work or just plain inventiveness!) to raise money for the new school chapel. They will be given until the 1 st May 2007 to ‘use their talents’ wisely and then, on this day to return their £1.oo and any additional funds raised, to school. All school staff, both teaching and ancillary, are also being encouraged to take part in the project too!