Year 7 Pupils attended a retreat recently in preparation for their Confirmation. Have a read at their evaluations.
St Bride’s P7 Retreat Evaluations
- Great fun and calm. I will remember it for a long time.
- I loved the prayer service. You really made my day.
- The prayer service was great, I really loved the retreat.
- I enjoyed creating the focus for the prayer service with my friends.
- I really liked the meditation and prayer service. I would like to do it again.
- I liked learning about Jesus and God.
- The meditation relaxed me.
- I liked making the kites.
- It was fun, but I wish we had more time here.
- I got happiness from today.
- I want to always remember the part I played in the drama.
- Meditation and prayer service.
- How to shine your light on everyone not just your friends.
- I liked talking about all the religions.
- Fun and enjoyable, I enjoyed meditation the most.
- I will remember the prayer service and all the effort everyone put in.
- I liked being a part of the prayer service and the meditation was relaxing.
- I liked getting the time to reflect at meditation.
- I found it ok. It just wasn’t really my sort of thing.
- I enjoyed the whole day and found it inspirational.
- I liked getting the opportunity to speak by myself at the prayer service. I loved all the art that we did.
- My favourite part of today was scripture.
- I learnt the importance of Jesus and how we can improve ourselves to be the better person we want to be.
- To appreciate others and shine bright. Be yourself!
- I enjoyed all of today.
- I will always remember this day.
- I learnt that a prayer is not just remembering words but asking God to help you and to speak to him.
- I loved today because the fun tasks made me forget about everything that stresses me. It’s somewhere I would want to be in the future.
- Prayer service, fun, music and prayers all good fun.
- Calmness and peace and fun too.
- Eventful, nothing like school, I enjoyed it all.
- Meditating and time to reflect on myself and how I can become a better person. Thank you.
- Fun, nor boring.
- I loved the song, ‘let it go’.
- I am not a Catholic but I was still made to feel very important, it was fun and not stressful.
- Educational, fantastic activities.
- The prayer service at the end was good, everyone had prepared their own thing and were able to show it off.
- Super and calm.
- Nice to watch the prayer service.
- Better than I expected.I really enjoyed today.
- Comfy chairs, activities, prayer service, songs and playtime.
- The crafts and meditation were good.
- Exactly how I thought it would be.
- I learned all about God and all the different things about the church.
- I now have the skill of meditation.
- I learnt about God through interactive activities with friends.
- Really good fun.
- Break and lunch were fun and all the other activities we did today.
- I loved the playground.
- Light in effort and fun.
- Great fun. I enjoyed the meditation.
- A relaxing and very different day.
- I learned that role-plays are fun.
- A peaceful experience.
- I liked the kite I made. A quiet, fun day.I liked the drama.
- Today lived up to my expectations, relaxing, not hard at all.
- Enjoyable day. Made me think about how others feel.
- Hope of God.
- Ok. Not fun, not boring.
- Relaxing time, I wish it was longer.
- I got to understand a Christian’s point of view.
- I liked my kite.
- Fun with my friends, it calmed me down.
- Enjoyment and fun, relaxing day.
- It was not just a time to pray.
- I am now relaxed.
- I learnt about the stories of the bible and found out more about people in my class. I found a happy place.
- I now realise that we are all different and that there are different ways to pray.
- To care for others and stay true to yourself.
- Fun, relaxing and educational.
- Feeling calmer and happier after today.
- A happy place. Really enjoyed it.
- I understand the Confirmation more after today.
- Nice, songs and artwork.
- God loves everyone equally. I loved the meditation.
- Great and enjoyable day.
- Break, lunch, meditation and making kites.
- Going into my happy place during meditation.
- Football was good.
- A fun day, I loved the music and the meditation.
- I did not like the long prayer time but football and meditation were good.
- I liked the drama and meditation.
- Decorating the kites was fun.
- Drama was good.
- Everything.
Focus: (photo below)
We have created a story about God’s creation and the work he has done. There are kites for reminding us about the joy in life. The kites show everyone in the world and shows how we are all part of a family.
Focus: (photo below)
We need the light just like a flower needs the light to grow. The flower goes through the darkness and the light just like we go through the darkness and light. No matter what happens we are all going through it. Just as the flower goes through whatever comes at it. Flowers take care of themselves just like we have to take care of ourselves, especially our minds because that is where our creativity comes from. When we meditate, our minds can see darkness and light whenever we are thinking about everything. God will always be with us whenever we need it and whenever we need this.
Focus: (photo below)
This focus means that we are special, the heart in the centre is supposed to be your heart and how special you are to God. We chose to create stars to symbolise heaven and how we need to shine brightly like stars by following Jesus more.
Focus: (photo below)
We picked all of these colours because they represent emotions we felt today. Pink was for love. Yellow for happiness. Purple for joy. Red for anger. Green for creativity. Blue for sadness and white for holy. If you spin all the colours of the rainbow you get white. This is the centre, it represents holiness because it is the heart of everything, especially today.
