This is just one statement that emerged from the most recent Step Day. During a Step Day students experience a day out of school to retreat. We believe a retreat is an opportunity to reposition so as ...  Read More

Last Tuesday we began our first Youth Alpha course at Townsend since 2019! Due to the pandemic it’s a course that has had to be put on hold for a number of years. But with the opportunity to run a tas...  Read More

About twelve years ago, I remember sitting in queue after queue after queue on the M25 on a Friday evening with the Step team on our 6-7 hour journey to get to the Youthwork Conference in Eastbourne. ...  Read More

Twelve students joined the course team this week. It was the first time we are running the Leadership Course in St George’s School.As one of the facilitators I met the group of 4 students I will be wo...  Read More

I have the privilege of coordinating our work in Sandringham and Verulam and in both schools, we have lunchtime groups called ‘Christianity Unpacked’, which we run in partnership with the youth worker...  Read More

Suffering is not an easy thing to talk about. Yet of the many topics that Step teaches in schools, the topic of suffering leads to some of the best conversations with students....  Read More

I wonder what makes you angry?During the latest week of our Tough Stuff course we ask the students this very question. Anger is an emotion we all feel at one time or another and few of us link this em...  Read More

“Retreat-ment” at Loreto“When’s our Step retreat-ment?” That was the question Geoff was asked by a Year 9 student as he was setting up for his session at our Year 11 retreat at Loreto this week. We al...  Read More

We are recruiting a new Schools Coordinator - Is it you? Step is a Christian charity working in the secondary schools in St Albans and Harpenden. We aim to provide a lively, relevant and consistent wi...  Read More

Just before half term we saw an exciting re-launch event for our powerful Haven resource provided by our partner organisation, 267.We relived the story of Haven’s grassroots beginning and how we as St...  Read More

Over the last 7 days Step has worked with 360 students in four Step Days.Each day the students are split into groups of 20 and carousel around 4 workshops focusing on different aspects of the theme of...  Read More

It has been an amazing start for Step this academic year at Loreto, with a Year 8 retreat, followed by three different initiatives, all starting within a few weeks of each other.We kicked off back in ...  Read More