Programs to Promote Values and Spirituality

The promotion of values and spirituality are consolidated in our community through programmes such as School Counselling and the School’s Religious Education Department.

The Department of Religious Education seeks to provide practical and systematic learning about religion as a human and social experience, based on four main objectives:

• To encourage discernment and understanding based on free and mature religious choices.
• To educate about coexistence and respect for values.
• To suggest an ethical orientation in life.
• To foster dialogue between human culture and the Catholic faith.

Throughout the year, we seek to promote the spirituality and healthy living of the whole educational community in activities such as:

1. Religious celebrations for the community:

• Baptisms
• Confirmations
• First Communion

2. Pastoral activities

• Assemblies: On a weekly basis the department organizes small, creative and dynamic meetings which involve students and teachers in the internalization of a specific value. At the end of these meetings, a prayer helps to relate to these values.
• Christmas: December is a month in which we can share values such as solidarity and family togetherness and in this month the department organizes various events where different members of the community can enjoy moments of fraternity.
• Celebration of the month May: In May we celebrate the month of the Marian tradition as our founder Mrs. Mary Allen Acosta was a great devotee of the Virgin Mary. The Religious Education Department sets aside periods for this devotion and enables the meeting of different faiths.
• Coexistence: The children are provided with time to meet with each other and also to reflect alone.
• Prayer Group: This group provides a place of prayer and reflection within the extracurricular timetable and allows children to discover different ways of communicating with God.

The School Counselling Department offers many programmes related to Values in different settings. (View tab in School Counselling in the Healthy Living section).