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.

St. Joseph's Primary School

Yet again we have thoroughly enjoyed having the young people from St. Joseph's. We all joined in on a number of activities from mediation to arts and crafts. Everyone got involved on the retreat day and it was wonderful to see the classes coming together at the end of the day with the prayer service that involved the work of everyone.

Focus:
We made this because it is joyful and fun for everyone. Its shows how we get up to heaven. The kites represent the wind of the Holy Spirit blowing all the kites up to heaven.

Music: 
You've got a friend in me - it is a song that symbolises your friendship with God and Jesus.
Shine - It says for you to let your inner self shine.

Scripture:

We read out Mt 5, You are the light of the world, it helped us remember an important message today about using our own light.
We also lit a candle to represent that fact.

Prayers:

Dear God

Pray for the sick and homeless who don't have shelter 
even in the worst weather 

Amen

Dear God

Please pray for my grandad whos not feeling well 
and for anyone else who is not feling well

Amen

Dear God 

Pray for all the animals and for rare animals in pain

Amen

Dear God

We pray for the families who are in need and going through a rough time.

Amen

Dear God 

Please pray for those who have no food or clean water

Amen

Dear God

Pray for all the families that have lost their jobs

Amen

Dear God

We pray for all the families that have financial problems

Amen

Dear God 

We pray for the P7 children making their Confirmation this year

Amen

Poster:
We wrote We Are Special on our poster because each person who sticks their hand to the poster is unique and special to God.

Focus:
We chose Jesus for this because today we learnt about him, for example, we learnt that he will always be there for us and that he will always forgive us when we do something wrong.

Music:
You've got a friend in me - because it's about a friend who is always there for you, like our class friends.
We chose True Colours because it's about letting what you are shine through.

Scripture:
You are the light of the world - Matthew 5. This story means that you must show love to others and show your talents to praise God in happiness.

Prayers:

Poster:
We chose this title, Let your light shine, because it means you don't have to be someone you're not. God made you who you are.

I recently went to the De La Salle retreat house and it was really fun and enjoyable. the staff were happy and greeted you with a smile and they were always welcome to suggestions and they also let you lie back and relax if you were tired

I reasently visited de la salle Retreat house. I absoloutly loved it and I would recomend it to every one I know. My favourate part of the day was when me and my friends,holly and orla designed the focus

dear the ladies at de la salle retreat thank you i had a lovely day with you i certianly thank michelle for the lesson you taught me thank you i had a wonderful day !!! :) 

Very interesting.Me and my pal Ethan loved it.We were in different groups but it was AWESOME!!!!!

I really enjoyed the retreat and i will recommend it to friends and my favourite part was the prayer service where I get to do drama.

I really enjoyed the retreat because we learened lots about jesus. i liked the prayer service because you got to listen to all the prayers and you got to see the drama

i really enjoyed coming to the retreat with my class and my favourite part was the meditation, it was so relaxing and i had time to think about anything i liked!!!
thank you so much i had a great day !!!