It's been an honour to walk with groups of students as they visit the YWAM base. Youth with a mission have their national base in Harpenden. After many conversations with schools we realised that the ...  Read More

Some of you will be aware that it is national volunteers’ week this coming week; a celebration of wonderful people who give their time and talents! In our last article we celebrated the breadth of hav...  Read More

Step will join other charities and voluntary organisation across the UK to celebrate all our volunteers for the 39th Volunteer’s Week. However, Step will celebrate from 22-26 th May as Volunteer’s Wee...  Read More

One of my favourite lessons at Step is Ultimate Questions and this week, Mary and I, along with several other volunteers have delivered it to 240 Year 8 students at Sandringham School. It’s always gre...  Read More

A few weeks ago I was in Samuel Ryder Academy teaching a lesson on Relationships and Christian Values. It would be fair to say I wasn’t completely sure about how these lessons were going to go. The id...  Read More

Did you know that the average student spends 35 hours a week in school for just under 40 weeks of the year....  Read More

Imagine a group of twelve anxious, non-communicative Year 9 students gathered in an awkwardly shaped room, tucked away in the hidden parts of Loreto. Well, that was what Manjit, Jane and I faced back ...  Read More

Today we had the most awesome, fun and blessed day with Townsends year 8! Their Head of Year who spent the day with us was so impressed with them and loved what the space gave the students. Massive th...  Read More

The Parable of the Good Samaritan is probably the most well-known story Jesus ever told and is a staple for primary and secondary schools when looking at the life of Jesus. What I love about the parab...  Read More

Imagine Joel dressed in traditional Nigerian clothes, playing a Djembe Drum, Hopscotch and other games dotted around the room for the students to explore. John taught the class to do a Hakka, celebrat...  Read More

Back in January I wrote a latest news about the first Youth Alpha in Townsend since 2019. Jane, Shannon and I have been running the latest course across this term. On Tuesday we had our last week on t...  Read More

It has been a fantastic week for Step at Loreto – we have been there Monday, Tuesday and Thursday doing so many different things.Monday was the Snug, where we set up the projector and lap top and sat ...  Read More