Blog entries http://www.orisonschools.org.uk Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:46:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/the-littlehampton-academy.html <p>Orison's second Celebrating RE Month event was a week at The Littlehampton Academy. We worked with the Chaplain at the school, as well as a fantastic team of volunteers, including Jon Jolly who writes about the week on his blog:</p><br/><br/><p>" This week I&rsquo;m helping to run an interactive prayer space in our local secondary school. The chaplain and team invited Orison to come to the school and set-up their brilliant exhibition, so yesterday I got stuck in! In case you&rsquo;re wondering:</p... Rachel Warwick Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:10:32 +0100 secondary http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/st-margarets-girls-school-bushey.html Here's a report from St Margaret's Girls' School in Bushey:<br/><br/><p>&nbsp;</p><br/>On Monday the 22nd and Tuesday the 23rd of November, the Lower School Hall was transformed into an interactive prayer space with tents, lights, bean bags, maps and a bubble tube which encouraged students to explore issues of spirituality and prayer.&nbsp;<br/><p>The hall was split into five zones - the sorry zone, the bubble zone, the world zone, the discovery zone and the image zone.&nbsp; Each zone encouraged students ... Rachel Warwick Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:55:00 +0100 http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/2010-10-11-14-30-24.html <p></p><br/><p class="MsoNormal">This was a good one. Another good partnership between a school, FAST (a team who organise volunteers from the local church to serve in primary schools) and those of us who are running orison in Farnham.</p><br/><br/><p>&nbsp;</p><br/><p class="MsoNormal"><img style="float: left;" src="http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/images/blog/Hale/orison hale sorry zone.jpg" alt="" width="400" /></p><br/><p class="MsoNormal">Hale School is a 2 class entry community school. The 4th primary school i... Rachel Warwick Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:20:57 +0100 http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/soul-survivor-and-momentum.html <p>We had a great time at Soul Survivor and Momentum, with loads going on in the Furnace and the Toolshed. Check out some of the photos by clicking on these images to see the albums.</p><br/><p>&nbsp;</p><br/><br/><p>&nbsp;</p><br/><p><img src="http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/images/blog/ss10 eaps.jpg" alt="" width="300" /></p><br/><p><img src="http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/images/blog/ss10 what does prayer look like.jpg" alt="" width="400" /></p><br/><p>even the toilet doors became prayer spaces...<img src="http://w... Rachel Warwick Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/soul-survivor.html <p><img src="http://orisonschools.org.uk/images/blog/furnace.jpg" alt="" width="350" /></p><br/><p>Tomorrow we're off to Shepton Mallett to set up the prayer spaces at Soul Survivor. If you're there, come and find us in the Furnace and the Toolshed...</p> Rachel Warwick Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:08:48 +0100 http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/potters-gate-farnham.html <p><img style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" src="http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/images/blog/orison_pg_2010_logo.gif" alt="" width="450" /></p><br/><p>This week, Orison is back at Potters Gate Primary School in Farnham.</p><br/><br/><p>This is the place where Orison started back in 2008 with just a tent, some beanbags and a bubble tube, before it was even called Orison. Last year, for the second visit, the prayer tent had grown into a classroom with several different activities to explore.</p><br/><p... Rachel Warwick Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:12:43 +0100 primary http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/prayers-and-questions.html <p>Here are some of the prayers and questions written by pupils visiting the Orison room at Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar</p><br/><br/><p>&nbsp;</p><br/><p><img src="http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/images/blog/4713268501_f14ef1da6c_m.jpg" alt="" width="416" /><br />for a larger version of this image, click here</p><br/><p><img src="http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/images/blog/screen shot 2010-06-19 at 08.54.46.png" alt="" /></p> Rachel Warwick Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:02:27 +0100 secondary questions prayers http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/kings-of-wessex-school-cheddar.html <br/><p>The prayer space is a converted geography classroom. RE classes from years 9 and 10 visit the space. The bubble tube and surrounding chill-out zone is in the middle, with Sorry, Image and World zones around the edge. As the room is smaller than we've had in the past, the classes come in half-groups for half a lesson, while the rest of the pupils spend the time in the classroom discussing the questions they would like to ask God, and then the ways in which he might answer. We've also welcomed... Rachel Warwick Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:28:48 +0100 secondary http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/prayer-spaces-in-schools-round-table.html <p>Yesterday, Hugo, Stuart, Linda and Rach joined with a few others in London for the first ever Round Table meeting of people who are running prayer spaces in schools.</p><br/><p>Tim Abbott, from Sanctum, has written about the day on his blog</p><br/><p>How exciting to think that there were 6 school prayer spaces in 2008, 12 in 2009 and 40 so far this year (and that's just the ones we know about...)&nbsp;</p><br/><p>Watch this space for news of a Prayer Spaces in Schools network and website coming la... Rachel Warwick Fri, 14 May 2010 12:02:11 +0100 prayer spaces in schools http://www.orisonschools.org.uk/news/orison-at-knaresborough-st-john-primary-school.html <p>This week we're working with a team from the York Schools &amp; Youth Trust, running a prayer space in Knaresborough St John Primary School for 2 days. Today was day 1 and we met 3 classes of year 3/4 pupils and 1 year 5 class before the biggest surprise of the day, when 2 year 6 classes turned up at once!</p><br/><br/><p>Thankfully we're in the school hall so there's plenty of space and the pupils were sensible enough to work together well to make sure they got the best out of the resources.</p><br/><p>... Rachel Warwick Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:11:58 +0100 primary