St Andrew's - Sunday School

Sunday School takes place at the same time as the adults' service in Church. We meet in the Sunday School room (also known as the Front Hall) before the Service begins, and the Minister comes in to say prayers with us, before we go into Church. We usually sit in the front row.

After the second hymn we come back into the Sunday School room, have our own notices, prayers and collection, then we work in little groups, by age.

We use the Scripture Union’s SALT programme which gives different activities for each age group based on the same bible passage.

These are pictures taken in Sunday School at the beginning of 2009 -

First some of the first group -



Blae and Francesca above, Blae and Katie below, with Magnus below those. Eileidh was missing that day.






These younger children enjoy doing simple craft projects, colouring, playing board games, all related to our weekly Bible reading.

This next photo shows the Junior Group, minus Daniel who was at hockey that day.



Their work is a little more complicated as they are all well able to read and write.

Secondary school age children look in more depth at Christianity, and what it means to be a Christian in today's world.

Sometimes we only have a few children in - for example at half term etc, and then sometimes we do something altogether.

This picture shows one of those days - when we retold the story of Jacob's Ladder using chocolate fingers and gingerbread men...

Currently there are about eleven or twelve children who are regularly at Church on Sundays, some in Sunday School, some in Créche, and others that we just see now and again. Everyone is very welcome to join us – even if it just for a week or two whilst you are visiting the Island.

We try to do something for other children sometimes, as well as having lessons. All the children get involved with our annual Church effort to fill shoe-boxes with gifts for children and young people in the Chernobyl Region of Belorussia.

Here are some pictures of our sponsored silence, which raised over £120 for WaterAid, in 2010.

Here are people drawing, silently, and making cupcakes, equally silently -





And here is an example of the cupcakes -



(Those were made by Magnus.)

Once or twice a year we go out together, for fun.

This is a picture show from a trip to the Ellan Vannin Gym Club in May 2011 - almost everyone is pictured - but somehow one or two escaped the camera!