Pray Day for Schools

Join with others across Europe to focus prayer for your local school on Pray Day! 

What can you do in your area to mark Pray Day?  Here are a few suggestions, whether you are a pupil, a teacher, a parent/grandparent, or part of a prayer group.

Pray Day for pupils

• Meet up with Christian friends or your youth group to pray before or after school.

• Organise a lunchtime drop-in prayer room and invite pupils and staff.

Pray Day for SU groups

• Mobilise your SU group to hold a special Pray Day event at school.  Hold an assembly, turn a room into a prayer space with interactive prayer stations and display a prayer box for requests that can be prayed for later.

• Meet as an SU group to pray for each other.  Pray aloud, or write down prayers and then read them out.  Write down individual prayer needs and post in a prayer box, to be prayed for later by the SU group leaders.

Pray Day for school staff

• Meet as school staff to pray before or after the school day, praying for particular pupils by name.

Pray Day for parents and grandparents

• Invite other mums, dads, grans and grandpas round for coffee and pray together for your children and grandchildren, their teachers, their school friends and other needs.
• Phone your local HT, tell her you are praying, and ask what the needs of the schools are - is it staff shortages, behavioural issues, budget cuts?

• Walk round your local school building and pray for school staff and pupils.

Pray Day for prayer groups

• Meet on Pray Day instead of your normal meeting time.

• Open your church after school and invite church members, pupils and school staff to drop in to pray at various prayer stations.

Email pray@suscotland.org.uk to share how you marked Pray Day in your local community, and to check if your school is registered with Pray for Schools Scotland.