Retreats

Each September our grade 9 students attend an overnight camp.  The experience focuses on the theme of community.  Through various activities, students work together to build community and get to know one another, with faith elements weaved throughout their time together.  It is truly an experience of bonding and discipleship!

With their religion class, grade 10 students will begin with a prayer walk through Newmarket to St. John Chrysostom Church and spend the day exploring what it means to be a people of justice and compassion, as well as reflect on ways to bring justice to our community and to the world.  This reterat is interactive, offering opportunities for learning, dialogue and reflection.

The focus of the grade 11 religion curriculum is the different world religions.  Each semester, the religion classes visit three different places of worship and dialogue with members of other faiths.  The places of worship vary each time and may include a synagogue, mosque, temple, mandir or gurdwara.

As students are nearing the end of their high school career, they have the opportunity to give back to the larger community. With their religion class, students will participate in a service-immersion experience in downtown Toronto.  They will reflect on moments in Jesus' life when compassion, justice and love were experienced in very real and practical ways.  Lunch bags and care packages will be assembled for distribution on a street walk.