St Martha’s School in Hadley Wood recently received an interesting email from a gentleman called Andrew Topple. Whilst sailing on Ray Island, a nature reserve in the Blackwater Estuary, just off the coast of West Mersea, Nr Colchester, Essex he came across a label from one of their Year of Mercy balloons.
It was one of 150 balloons released by the school in November 2016 during their closing ceremony for the Year of Mercy. Each pupil had been given a balloon which had a prayer attached to it. On the reverse was a picture of one of the small doors which each form room had as a reminder of the Holy Door in the Vatican.
