Lent 22

[mylodon]

nodbear has taken up the 'forgiveness/pardon' theme and run with it, and her most recent post is - as always - both excellent and thought provoking.

Earlier, I was looking at the website for the school where I'm chair of governors, and our three key values are Love, Hope and Forgiveness. Those were decided on by staff and governors about a year ago and form the heart of what we do. Those values are supposed to be at the heart of all we do, explicitly (in terms of forgiveness):

We wish to work in a school community where:
• We forgive other people who hurt us
• We are forgiven when we are in the wrong
• We think about how others might feel, and do what we can to help them
• Strong friendships are forged

Our new headteacher has been using these values, with success, to reinforce the behaviour policy and get children to see the impact of their actions.

Comments

gi

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

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.

gi

[nodbear.livejournal.com]

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.