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Our Prayer Trails provide pupils of all ages with the opportunity to explore faith and spirituality in a safe, creative and interactive way. A range of flexible resources can be adapted to bring an experiential dimension to a variety of subject areas and to pastoral aspects of school life.

These multi-sensory trails can be based on themes related to RE or to the SMSC or SEAL agendas. Themes could include the environment, peace and conflict, justice and forgiveness, identity, belonging, suffering and hope, understanding myself, expressing my feelings and many more. They can be adapted to the school’s needs and installed for a week-long event or longer.

One school which had a local Christian group running a Prayer Trail during an OFSTED inspection, received an ‘Outstanding’ grade for their SMSC development of pupils. Our Prayer Trails are broadly Christian in perspective but can be adapted to ensure that the language and concepts are accessible and acceptable to pupils of all faiths and none.
Click here for a case study of a Prayer Trail we have run in two Bristol secondary schools.
At the end of October, Redland Education Centre visited St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School in Whitchurch to present a Prayer Trail on the theme ‘Identity’. We transformed the school’s chapel into interactive zones which explored issues of body image, peer relationships and self-esteem.

Pupils aged 11-16 moved around the zones during RE lessons. We were also inundated with voluntary visitors during break and lunch times. Altogether around 600 pupils visited the trail during the week.

Pupils examined messages they receive in the media about beauty, looked at how they could challenge that from a Christian perspective, mapped out their closest relationships using ‘little people’ and contrasted beliefs about themselves with what others/God might believe about them.

We were able to adapt the trail to the school’s own spiritual learning agenda. It created a dynamic environment in which pupils could think about their own beliefs and apply them to issues which have everyday relevance for them.
“In an age where our perceptions of beauty and love are often distorted by the media, REC’s Prayer Trail encouraged pupils to look at themselves and their relationships in a different way.

There was a fantastic response to the Prayer Trail and the chapel was often full to bursting point at break and lunch times. The prayer trail enabled our pupils to explore spiritual concepts in a non-threatening but challenging way.”
Dan Leiblich, Head of RE, St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School
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