These are good aims to have - but I am interested (of course) in the language of them We forgive other people who hurt us - but we are forgiven when we are in the wrong
feels to me to be uneven - the former rather stronger than the latter in the sense that 'hurt' has the harder feel and the second one in the passive and the 'in the wrong ' feels different but I am aware that it echoes the 4-11 age group's world view rather more than a middle aged theologian like me would :)
and is therefore probably best placed to speak to children in the way your headteacher hopes it will- getting them to move beyond that to see the other side ..which leads me to today's post... but I am also interested to learn how these core values were worded at length by governors, teachers, kids and families. Its good that those kind of non academic factors are reinforced.
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Date: 2016-03-07 10:18 am (UTC)We forgive other people who hurt us - but
we are forgiven when we are in the wrong
feels to me to be uneven - the former rather stronger than the latter in the sense that 'hurt' has the harder feel and the second one in the passive and the 'in the wrong ' feels different
but I am aware that it echoes the 4-11 age group's world view rather more than a middle aged theologian like me would :)
and is therefore probably best placed to speak to children in the way your headteacher hopes it will- getting them to move beyond that to see the other side ..which leads me to today's post...
but I am also interested to learn how these core values were worded at length by governors, teachers, kids and families.
Its good that those kind of non academic factors are reinforced.