Beliefs and Values

Vesting the Church competition

This term Year 8 Beliefs & Values classes participated in a “Vesting the Church” competition. Students, working individually or in small teams, were challenged to design a ‘vestment’ for use in Anglican worship at our chapel, St George’s Anglican Cathedral in Perth, or another Christian church. The vestment can be worn, carried, placed on an object, hung, or laid on the floor. It should relate to a function or season of the Christian Church, or to a celebration or event within the Christian/Anglican tradition.

Beginning with a design on paper, students will then create a prototype of their vestment using calico and coloured fabrics. If selected as the winner from their class, their design will be professionally constructed in collaboration with the winning designer(s).

The winning design will be judged on its beauty, its ability to glorify God, its role in Anglican worship, and the inclusion of appropriate Christian signs or symbols and/or the correct colours of the liturgical season and/or its particular function in Anglican worship.

The images show students wearing examples of Eucharistic/worship vestments. Reverend Sarah Stapleton (Parish Priest of St Andrew’s, West Nedlands) generously loaned these pieces to St George’s Anglican Grammar School from the church’s newly established Vestment Library for the duration of the competition.

Up close to the Cathedral

Why are student sitting on the floor of our Chapel, St George's Anglican Cathedral Perth?

Year 7 Beliefs & Values class recently visited our Chapel not for prayer and worship, but to investigate how the Cathedral plays its role in containing the signs and symbols that are a representation of God's gift of life and love for us.

Students were challenged to analyse the Stations of the Cross, the artistic rendering of the Passion Narrative: Jesus' last hours, his death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead. They were then invited to sketch any part of the Cathedral that was beautiful, in their eyes, and that they believe gives glory to God.

Mr Ryan McBride

Coordinator of Beliefs and Values