"Growing into all God wants us to be"

Matthew 13: verses 31-32 underpins our vision: The parable of the Mustard Seed.

Our School Vision is underpinned by our Christian values.  These are:

• Love
• Respect
• Honesty
• Forgiveness
• Perseverance
• Stewardship

Our values were established in collaboration with a range of members of the school community including children, parents, staff and Governors and the Rector of St Mary's Church.  We place great importance on living out our Vision through the guiding principles of our values.  Throughout the school year, children have the opportunity to recognise others who have demonstrated our Christian values in their every day lives.  

Bramley's school value is forgiveness.

For the class worship, the class learnt a new song with actions, You Forgive Me. We discussed what it means to forgive and we showed this through dance, spoken words and a visualisation of forgiveness being like putting down a heavy back pack; not forgetting what was inside but not carrying it around with us.

We also studied the bible story of Joseph and his forgiveness of his brothers. We performed this for the school in the worship.

We wrote a prayer and invited the whole school to share in the prayer. 

Crispin’s school value is stewardship.

The children decided to explain what this was - and how the children themselves could make a difference - by creating and acting out three scenarios:

• Littering in the school
• Leaving lights on in the school
• Using cheap, plastic carrier bags once then throwing them away.

In each case, there was a child showing the right way, then some 'experts' with facts to share about the impact of choosing the wrong option in each case.

The children also found a bible quote from Genesis about The Creation, showing the idea of God giving us stewardship of the world and everything in it.

The children also researched, found and learnt and song, with actions, called

Earth: We're in it Together.

Galaxy Gala’s school value is honesty.

In preparation for our class worship we talked about what it means to be honest. We decided it was not just telling the truth, but also acting in an honest way. 

As a class we learnt and performed two short dramas. The boy who cried Wolf reminded us about the importance of being truthful so that others can trust us. We also acted out Peter denying that he knew Jesus three times, and then being reconciled with Christ who forgave his friend. 

We performed a short acrostic poem using letters from the word 'Honesty' and shared a prayer with the school, asking God to help us to be an Honest school community.