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Matric 2020 online awards ceremony

Congratulations on all your outstanding achievements despite this challenging year. May your future be blessed and your strength and determination carry you in your journey ahead.

The video below shows all of the awards presented on the evening, along with Penny Mullan, Luhlanganiso Majebe and Hlombe Ndzube's inspiring speeches.

Tricky ~ a Remembrance Day prayer

Remembrance Day is tricky

There are those who fought in service of their countries

We pray for them

And there are those who as conscientious objectors did not

and stood for peace

And we pray for them

There are those who lived through and died in combat

And those who lived and died imprisoned

by their own countries

We pray for them

We wear poppies

red poppies and white poppies knowing we need to remember

But to remember what?

Heroism and loss and death and judgement and hope

and quietly just carrying on through the destruction to keep families

and communities alive

And mostly to remember peace

And to mourn our inability to keep it

And to look into our own hearts and heal our wounds

To heal our greed and our fear of difference and our sense of being right

and our belief that we know what’s best

​for everyone

We pray

That we learn to pause

And to breath

And to connect to the peace of Christ

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To learn to be in companionable conflict with each other

Our families and communities

Because if we cannot talk about the things we disagree about

with those we love and care about

we will not know how to talk to people who look different

and speak differently and see the world through a different lens

And we will never learn that perhaps they have something to teach us

We remember that everything is created twice

The first when it is envisioned and the second when it is made real

So we pray that what we envision is God’s kingdom

That we see ourselves as agents of peace in every aspect of our lives

That we envision a love that both holds the other

And holds each other accountable,

With compassion and kindness,

as we walk this journey together

Remembrance Day is tricky because we boldly remember the ways we have failed

Then boldly lay that aside like yesterday’s wilted wreath

Honouring each piece as we take it apart

And, taking the seeds from the dying poppies, plant a garden

Plant a garden

Today we remember and we pray

We remember the past so we can join God in co-creating our future

We remember the past because our story emerges from these stories

We remember the past and remember that

We live the kingdom of God

Or we don’t

Lest we forget

~ Kimiko Karpoff, November 11, 2017

Long March to Freedom Outing

The Long March to Freedom is a collection of 100 life-size figures that will grow into a procession of over 400 bronze statues over time.

Vampire Team

If you are in Grade 11 next year, and would like the privilege of being part of the Springfield Blood Donation Clinic "Vampire" (Blood Ambassador) team, please complete the attached form: