‘When our teacher told us we were going to church, I didn’t want to come, but I didn’t realize how much fun this was going to be!’Student (Wales)
This activity encourages students to both look back at the previous year, and then forward to the next.
This activity encourages students to think about their hopes and dreams - things they would like to have, or to be, things they would like to do, or places they would like to go.
This activity encourages students to pray for themselves or someone that they know who needs healing, using the story of Fabrice Muamba.
This activity encourages students to identify the things that they are hoping for, and to express these as paper 'prayer flowers', which slowly open as they float on water.
Joy isn't the same thing as happiness, but it is closely linked. This activity encourages students to think about things that make them joyful (joy-full) and to shout them out.
This activity breaks our own rules (!) in that it has more than one point. The use of the four playing card types encourages students to explore four different prayer themes.
