On Tuesday 4th October the Lower School celebrated their feast day of their patron saint, St Francis of Assisi. All Lower School pupils attended a liturgy in the sports hall to mark this date. Music, prayer and reflection filled the room. This will become an annual event for the newly established Lower School and the academy is looking forward to the next one.

Prayer of St Francis of Assisi;

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.