Prayer and Reflection spaces in schools are a great way to encourage children to reflect on important themes in creative, fun and interactive ways, with opportunity to pray if they would like to. In the busy environment of school, children rarely have opportunity to just stop, think and reflect. Our spaces aim to create an environment where children can stop and reflect on life and share their thoughts. We usually set up a number of different spaces that children can interact with. Each space focuses on a different theme to think about such as the world, self-image, forgiveness and my community. Children move around the spaces in small groups and are lead through the activities. From our experience, children with a faith or no faith find these spaces really helpful and can engage however they would like to with the different activities. We recently ran a prayer and reflection space for St Barnabas School, hosted in St Barnabas Church. Here was some feedback from the headteacher, Karen Boardman:
“The Prayer Spaces day at St Barnabas Church was a really special day. All children from Reception to Year 6 were able to engage in the different activities which helped them to be still and calm and reflect on matters relating to themselves, other people and God. The bubble tube was amazing and children loved the idea that it reminded them that their prayers were going up to God. The day helped children to gain a better understanding of what prayer is and hopefully they will be able to re-create some of these types of activities for themselves and so engage in prayer easily. Reading and listening to the childrens’ reflections also enabled us to see how the children understand our school values and our church school character. Thanks to the YoYo team and members of the St Barnabas Church for a wonderful and spiritual day. ”
If you would be interested in booking YoYo to lead a Reflect space, or would like to find out more information, please feel free to contact us.