School Activities for Lent

School Activities for Lent 

Below you will find activities for schools to use with their pupils or staff during Lent.  Keep checking this page for any new ideas.

Support for Staff 

Click on the link below to access prayers to use with staff during Lent.

Staff Prayers – caring for creation

Staff Prayers – peace

Staff Prayers – option for the poor

Staff Prayers – solidarity

Staff Prayers – common good AND subsidiarity

Working Through Lent 2022 

Take a prayerful and spirit filled journey through Lent.  This booklet offers you a short reflection based on the daily readings for the working week for each day during Lent.

Resources linked to the Sunday Gospel 

The site below has a regular feature that includes a reflective powerpoint for each Sunday of the school year and other key feast days and events.   The site also has access to a number of other high quality resources.

PEBBLE‘ Resource to support well-being linked to the Sunday Gospel

PEBBLE is based on the theme of each Sunday’s Gospel.  It can be used to inspire personal reflection or collective worship.  The slides are designed to make them easy to adapt for children of any age and adults. Each pebble includes free wellbeing activities based on ideas from actionforhappiness.org and the BBC Happiness Half Hour Podcast. Click on the image above to access – remember to check back each week.

Activities and Resources for Schools During Lent 

Below you will find links to resources linked to the Lenten season.

Click on the image above for a Lent Resource for schools to use to journey through Lent

Click on the image above for a Lent Resource Pack for Primary Schools

Click on the image above for a document providing information about how the Catholic Church celebrates the season of Lent.

40 IDEAS FOR 40 DAYS OF LENT