St. Colman's Transition Retreat

It was great to have the P7s from St. Colman's in our Centre this week for their transition retreat.  They were a great bunch, lively and enthusiastic.  It's so near the end of term that the reality of leaving primary school is near.  They had loads of happy memories from their primary school years, some of which they shared with us.

They wrote heartfelt prayers for their prayer services...

Dear God,

Help the people with no friends.

We pray that they will make many new

friends in their new school.

Amen.

Dear God,

Pray for those families that have members that have passed away.

Amen.

Dear God,

Bless our teachers for their kindness and patience throughout our

years at school and that our new teachers will be as kind as them.

Amen

They wrote these brilliant Reflections...

Look at the way they created a prayerful atmosphere in the chapel for the Prayer Services by making these meaningful focuses.

This one shows  a person made out of the footprints they made during the day. The person represents all of us.  Above the person they made the world out of cloths.  This was to represent that it is up to us to be like Jesus in the world, to bring Jesus to everyone we meet, through the way we treat them.  They used the cards thay made in the day to represent the cosmos.  All of God's creation was represented in this excellent focus.

The other group made a display called, "A Burst of Colour."  They used the coloured cloths to represent all the different aspects of our personalities and all the qualities we have as individuals.  They put all the footprints and cards round it to include us all.  They chose the song "True Colours" to play, because in the song it says, "I see your true colours and that's why I love you."  That's just the way God feels about each one of us. God loves us exactly as we are.

We talked about how important it is to just be yourself when you go to the new school.  We're sure all these P7s will let their light shine in all their new schools in September and we wish them blessings and happiness.