Special Character Retreats
Year 7/8 retreat was held at the
Silverstream Retreat Centre. Our
focus was on the brotherhood
—Tuakana Teina. It was a great day
where we spent time working on what
the brotherhood is, the importance of
it and how we understand the concept
of Tuakana Teina. We spent some
time reflecting on who are tuakana to
us and on how we wanted to be as we
emerge as young teina in our school.
Special Character
A huge thanks to our senior students
who were tuakana on the day and to the
amazing Marcellin staff.
Year 10 retreat was held at
Camp Wellesley in the Akatarawa
Valley. The theme of this retreat
was Moral Compass and working out what is the right direction
in our lives. The activities of
orienteering and obstacle course
reinforced the themes of team
work and finding our way, with
the reflection tie looking at our
life journey so far and how to
orientate ourselves to the values
we find in the Gospels.
The Year 12 Retreat was held at Kaitoke
Country Gardens on Friday 8 March. We
had our theme on Targeting and Resilience,
which is the Ascent Stage of our Retreat
Programme.
The boys had the opportunity to be in session and reflect on their own resilience and
think on the things they wanted to target this
year. They all had a practical opportunities of focus with skeet, archery
and focusing exercises with Rock
and Water with Master Rob (right).
A new element this year was to use ipods
to make movies about living our 2013 Pillar – ‘In the
Way of Mary’. A massive thanks to all the Year 12 Pastoral
Staff and the DRS and Chaplain for making this a great day out!
St Bernard’s College 2013
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