On Tuesday we welcomed children and staff from St. Anne’s RC School, Audenshaw who brought the Diocesan Relay of Prayer Torch to Denton. Its first stop was St. Mary’s. The children from St. Anne’s had been learning about Azaerbaijan and they led an assembly telling us all about this country and performed an Azaerbaijani dance.
On Wednesday, it was our turn to pass the torch on to St Thomas More College. After an assembly at St. Mary’s, our Y6 ambassadors led by St Thomas More’s Samba band, carried the Prayer Torch to our partner high school accompanied by a canoe—symbolic of Tuvalu – the country we have been learning about.
The procession,along the streets of Denton, was joined by parents and friends of St. Mary’s and many people came out to see what was happening. Our ambassadors and Y4 received a rapturous welcome when we arrived at St Thomas More as students and staff lined the driveway and cheered our arrival. Our Y6 ambassadors, then led a specially prepared assembly on Tuvalu and our Y4 children performed a liturgical dance. The assembly closed with the transfer of the Prayer Torch to the ambassadors from St Thomas More.
Later that day, the students of St Thomas More took the Prayer Torch to St John Fisher School. On Thursday, the children from St John Fisher carried the Prayer Torch as a relay to St Joseph’s, Reddish. We lined Kynder St and cheered the children on as the torch bearing relay passed school.
It has been an amazing three days for the three Catholic schools of Denton and represented a real coming together as one community—in the true spirit of the Olympics.
