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Primary students at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School recently took part in a Prayer Space themed around the school’s core values of spirit, inclusivity, integrity, courage, respect and passion, all of which are borne from the school’s Anglican tradition
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At St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, Prayer Spaces are held each term for both the primary and secondary students to explore life’s big questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way. The most recent of the school’s Prayer Spaces was themed around the Lenten and Easter seasons
St Margaret’s holds four week-long Prayer Spaces each year: two designed for primary students and two for secondary students. The most recent, held last month, was themed around the Beatitudes, found in Matthew 5.1-12
Ten inspiring Year 6 Leaders from The Springfield Anglican College share about their wonderful Prayer Tree project and how prayer is helping them to focus on ‘Being Together: Practising Peacemaking’ in the lead up to Christmas
“In the Prayer Spaces framework, ‘space’ can unite mind, body and spirit, as students are positioned in a safe context of quiet and calm, where they can consider the ‘big questions’ of life and faith,” says Vanessa Gamack, Mission and Education Advisor at the Anglican Schools Commission
As part of our continuing series on Reconciliation Action Plan achievements, The Rev’d Susan Crothers-Robertson tells us about how St John’s Anglican College primary students recently explored Reconciliation Prayer Spaces with students opening themselves to awe and wonder: “When the students were welcomed into the prayer space, it felt there was an inner hospitality, an inner awakening, that God was inviting us into a deeper sense of being, as we reflected on the first peoples of the land”
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