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Revd Jonathan Boyce
Chaplain - Royal Alexandra & Albert School

The Royal Alexandra & Albert School is a state boarding school near Reigate, Surrey, with 1100 pupils from Year 3 to Year 13. Approximately 380 of the pupils are Full Boarders from around Great Britain and across the world. The School is set within Gatton Park, 260 acres of gardens and parkland.

Chaplaincy provision includes Monday Evening Services, Morning Prayer for Staff, Wednesday Lunch-Time Communion for staff and students, Assemblies, Mentoring, ELSA (Emotional Literacy) Support, ‘Take Ten’ Break-Time provision, pastoral support and care for all of the students and staff, plus participation in the life and the work of the School and boarding houses in the fullest sense. 

I thank God for all of the opportunities that there are to support the members of this community, plus for his help to do so. I am thankful too for the strong sense of community across the School and boarding houses.

Thank you for your prayers. They are hugely appreciated.

• Please can you pray for the students who are involved in GCSE, A Level & BTEC exams this year with regards to their final preparations for the exams plus for when they take them.
• Please can you pray for the School as we remain firmly committed to providing an environment in which all will achieve their full potential in all aspects of their lives, mindful too of our four key values of ambition, courage, integrity and respect.  
• Please can you pray for the well-being of the students and staff in the very widest sense. With this in mind, I wonder if you could also be praying using words based on some of those that we use each day at Morning Prayer: Dear God, we thank you for all, in the very widest sense, who are part of the RAAS community. Please, today, and each day, help each and everyone in exactly the way that they need. Please, today, and each day, help them - children, young people and adults alike - in their being together. Please help them in their relating to one another.  Please, today, and each day, with your help, may they - as individuals and as a community together - be loving, patient, kind, forgiving, supportive, wise and self-controlled in who they are and in what they say and do. Amen.