Sec 4 and 5 Retreat and Tree-Planting Ceremony

On 25th and 26^th September, our respective Sec 5 and 4 graduating students painted the final colours on their KC canvas which they had held for the past 4-5 years. Known also as School Missions, the Sec 4 and 5 retreat marked their final KC experience before they embarked on their study leave leading up to the national examinations.

Co-organised by KC’s chaplaincy team and the Redemptorist Mission Team from the Novena Church, the sessions focussed on helping students make positive choices towards a good outcome in life and drawing strength from their faith and themselves, making peace and reconciliation as well as  having the self-belief and confidence to move forward in their next phase of life.  

The highlights for many of the students were the t-shirt-writing and the teacher sharing sessions during the Toast for Change. The former involved students writing personal messages of love, hope and reconciliation on each other’s t-shirts which had been gifted to them while the latter involved Sec 4 form teachers sharing their words of love and hope for the girls.

The Sec 5 girls experienced a similar retreat with sessions on writing their hopes, dreams and affirmations of themselves drawn on a silhouette of their hands and feet on a banner. The highlight of the retreat was the gratitude and reconciliation sessions which the students.