Year 6 Confirmation Retreat

The College’s Year 10 Youth Ministry class have prepared and facilitated the recent Carroll Day service as well as this week’s Year 6 Confirmation Retreat. The students have approached these events with enthusiasm and maturity and have demonstrated excellent leadership in doing so. It is wonderful to see these students work so confidently with Year 6, sharing their knowledge and ideas, and forging strong relationships with these students. 

Congratulations and thank you to these dedicated students. Thank you also to our Youth Ministry teacher Karen Lyttle who has helped to prepare these students, and ensure everything ran smoothly.

Belle Barling

Faith Formation Coordinator

Last Friday the Year 10 Youth Ministry class, with the help of our Religious Education teachers, organised a fun and engaging day where the Year 6 students from St Mary’s and St Bernard’s came and spent the day at the college to help them prepare for the sacrament of Confirmation. The day included creative activities such as making book marks reflecting on scripture and card decorating for students making their sacrament. Students painted rocks with images and words of their chosen saints. Posters were created depicting the gifts of the Holy Spirit and banners using the symbols of Confirmation were painted. Many prayers where written and read and everyone had the opportunity to reflect on particular saints and on the themes of Confirmation. The Year 6 students were all very excited and enthusiastic about the day and it was a delight to work together and get to know them.

By Alyssa Harajli

On Friday the 10th of June the Year 6 cohort from Saint Mary’s Moruya, Saint Bernard’s Batemans Bay and 1 student from Saint Peter’s Broulee visited Carroll College to participate in a Confirmation retreat day. The day was a great success with lots of activities run by the Year 10 Youth Ministry class with the aim of teaching the Year 6 students what the sacrament of Confirmation is and what Catholics do to confirm their Religion. The 5 activities that the Youth Ministry class ran included poster making, rock painting, bookmark making, card making and banner painting. At the end of the day, Deacon Eden came and taught us about the oils of Anointment that are used in Christianity, including the sacrament of Confirmation. Both year groups enjoyed the activities thoroughly.

By Tahlia Stjepanovic