St Bernadette House
Welcome to St Bernadette house, given below is a list of the staff who work in our house and their direct contact details should you need them.
Head of House and House Manager
| Role | Name | Email Address |
| Head of House | Zoe Cochrane | cochranez@ursuline.kent.sch.uk |
| House Manager | Michelle Brown | brownm@ursuline.kent.sch.uk |
Form Tutors
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Form |
Form Tutor |
Email address |
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1B |
Fiona Giles (Y7) |
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2B |
George Evans (Y7) |
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3B |
Claire Morris (Y8/9) |
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4B |
Takara Allum (Y8/9) |
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5B |
Tom Hickman (Y8/9) |
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6B |
Donna Steel / Becky Love (Y10/11) |
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7B |
Hamish Bell (Y10/11) |
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8B |
Jackie Dewy/ Clare Dodson (Y10/11) |
Who is St Bernadette?
St Bernadette Soubirous (St Bernadette of Lourdes)
Occupation:
Between the ages of 12 and 14 Bernadette was hired out as a servant, working the lonely job of a shepherdess.
Born: 7th January 1844
Died: 16th April 1879 (aged 35, from tuberculosis)
Best known for:
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes was best known as a saint who received visions from the Virgin Mary in a cave near Lourdes. She was canonized as a saint in 1933.
Biography:
St Bernadette was also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, she was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes from the Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for witnessing apparitions of a "young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby cave at Massabielle.
Early Life:
She was the eldest of nine children. Her family lived in extreme poverty in France. Soubirous was a sickly child and possibly due to this was only 4 ft 7 inches tall. She contracted cholera as a toddler and suffered severe asthma for the rest of her life.
Sainthood:
On 8 December 1933, Pope Pius XI, declared Soubirous a saint of the Catholic Church. Her feast day, initially specified as 18 February – the day Mary promised to make her happy, not in this life, but in the other – is now observed in most places on the date of her death, the 16th April.
St Bernadette Values & Prayers
Values
St Bernadette's values are Kindness, Compassion, Stewardship, Courage, Humility and Justice.
St Bernadette Prayer
