St. James' Primary School

Today we enjoyed working with the young people from St James' Primary School. We talked together about making Confirmation and what difference it would make in our lives. We also enjoyed a quiet meditation and and a lively prayer service.

Focus: 
We made  the alter because it reminds us of the church and the church is God's home. The candle is because the fire represents the Holy Spirit. Each hand has a promise on it and the promise is to help someone like a helping hand.

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Music: 

Where is the love - Respecting one another.
You've got a friend in me - Because you have a friend in God.

Scripture: 
You are the light of the world (Matt:5) The message from the passage is, when someone is down shine your light on them to make them feel better.
You can shine the light on somebody by being nice to them, caring and praying for them.

 Prayers:

Poster:
We wrote Follow Jesus because we are Christian.

St. Teresa's Primary School.

We always look forward to the visit from St.Teresa's and this time was no different. We had a lovely day with the groups. It was great to see the young people come together in our activities and games, and listening to so many different ideas and opinions. The prayer service special as their hard work and effort shone through.

Focus:
The reason for our focus is because it symbolises, God the father, Son and the Holy Spirit and how God loves us. The hands symbolises friendship. The kites represent us and the Holy Spirit.

Music:
You've got a friend in me - Because it's about friendship and God wanted everybody to be friends.
What a wonderful world - Because it's about a wonderful world which God wanted.

Scripture:
Jesus is our light and God guides us to God's kingdom. His light can't be hidden it so bright, it's for us to see.

 Prayer:

Poster:

We Chose Let Your Light Shine. We got this from idea from shining our light. This helps people care for others and showing our talents to each other.

Focus:
We made this world to represent everybody. We put the light in the the middle to represent that God is with us.

Music:
Hero - Everyone has a light inside them and when it shines it makes them a hero.
Man in the mirror - look in the mirror and if you're not a very nice person, change yourself into a better one.

Scripture:
On our focus we put the candle in the middle of our world to represent the story, You are the light of the world (Matt:5). this story lets us see how happy God will be if we shine our light,

 Prayers:

Poster:
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE! We were talking about the light we all have inside of us. Show your personality and talents, don't be afraid to shine your light.

Good Shepherd Primary School

It was great to see the young people from Good Shepard again, we had so much fun on the retreat day. It was a pleasure to have them. We talked about our Confirmation coming up and took part in activities based around it. We ended our lovely day with a prayer service, and everyone got involved in organising it.

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Focus:

This represents that we are the kites, and the Holy Spirit is the wind keeping us in the air and guiding us. 

 Music:

Make you feel my love - Adele: Because it is about love and you love everyone and God
Born this way - Lady GaGa: Because you are born the way you are.

 Scripture:
You Are The Light Of The World (Mt 5) - Because each person has the responsibility to shine the light that God gave them.

Prayers:

Poster:
These hands are God's hands and our hands are linked to them.

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 Focus:
We made this kite because it represents us and the wind is the Holy Spirit guiding us.

  Music:
You've got a friend in me - Because we should all be friends.
Hero - Because you are a hero when we help one another

  Scripture:
You Are The Light Of The World (Mt 5) - God is telling us that we should help each other by shining our light.


 Prayers:

 Poster:
We picked Follow Jesus as the title of our poster because He sacrifices life for us and rose from the dead.