Lasallian Awards will spread love, kindness and compassion

Following the success of the inaugural Lasallian Awards last year, the District Leadership Team has officially launched the initiative for 2022.

The Awards took place during the build up to Founder’s day in May 2021 and proved to be a huge success, with even more schools and students expected to embrace the concept this year.

The excellent idea to engage young people with the Lasallian 5 Core Principles came from St Simon Stock Catholic School in Maidstone as they discovered new and creative ways to encourage their students to become active in both faith and service.

As a District we adopted this idea and, due to the incredible support of our Schools, Colleges and Pastoral Centres, we saw 1565 entries, comprising 230 Gold Awards, 208 Silver Awards and 1127 Bronze Awards. This means that 1565 young people all actively sought ways to bring to life the Lasallian 5 Core Principles and in turn, no doubt will have spread love, kindness and compassion to each community that they are a part of. A beautiful way to see Lasallian lives in action.

This year students are invited to explore the Lasallian Awards once more and this can be done in ways best suited to staff, students and each school context. 

Schools can begin anytime, with the deadline for entries being Friday 6th May, and they can adapt the template for the Awards if they feel some acts or actions could be nuanced further for your locale or cohort.  Schools are asked to replace them with others which still focus on the Core Principle they are related to.

This year, all entrants that qualify for a Bronze, Silver or Gold Award will receive a lapel badge to acknowledge their category. In addition, the prizes for each category this year will be an Apple i-Watch for Gold, a £100/ €100 voucher for Silver and a £50/ €50 voucher for Bronze.