Chapel
Our Christian faith is at the very heart of our community. Once a week we have a Chapel service for each part of the School – Seniors, Juniors and Pre-Prep and the whole school worships together on Mondays and Fridays. On Friday this takes place in the Cathedral and is often attended by a strong gathering of parents.
My sole aim as Chaplain is to help the children and adults in our community “catch” God and then stay firmly caught! We vary our worship from the very peaceful and meditative to the wild and exciting – the silence of floating bubbles to the whiz, bang, pop of rocket balloons! All spiritual experience is valued and I believe very valuable from the very informal to the more formal services such as our termly Eucharists and early morning Chapel Eucharists. If our faith is at the heart of our community, the Eucharist is at the heart of our faith. Great importance is placed on our confirmation classes for Years 6, 7 and 8 which lead to a Diocesan Confirmation service after Easter in the Cathedral.
Our faith is woven into the very fabric of our school life and events, both sad and joyful are incorporated into symbolic services which help mark their progress and effect. But it is a light weaving and everyone is encouraged to question and argue and express their doubts in the Chaplain’s hope that the joy that is our faith will fill all our lives.
