Values and Virtues

Values and Virtues: Summer 1

Curious and Active

Curious: exploring God's creation and asking questions to find out more.  Everything around us was created by God.  Being curious about these things - from tiny insects to enormous plants, from the languages of the Earth to the patterns made by numbers - brings us closer to God.

Active: working to make things better where we can.  As we use our curiosity to explore, we find things that could be better: a friend is unhappy; a neighbour is lonely; there is litter in the playground; the whiteboard needs wiping.  Some of these problems we can fix.  By being active we take responsibility for these tasks and look after God's creation.

Help me Jesus

Know your ways

Through the night

Through the days

Give me love

To show a friend

You're always there

You never end.

Values and Virtues: Spring 2

Learned and Wise

Learned: learning how God wants us to live our lives Whether we are young or old, we should never stop learning about what God wants of us. We learn many new things each day. By reading the Bible, listening to our teachers and listening to our hearts, we learn more of what God wants.

Wise: knowing how God wants us to live our lives and putting it into practice. God is always with us and hoping that we will live our lives in the right way, following the teachings of Jesus. What qualities does God want us to show in our everyday lives? He wants us to be kind, loving, respectful and trustworthy. He wants us to do as Jesus did.

Values and Virtues: Spring 1

Eloquent and Truthful

Eloquent: the ability to speak or write fluently, persuasively and appropriately.  We are eloquent when we use language to express our ideas or opinions clearly and with conviction. When we choose our words, we should do so carefully so they are kind and compassionate, and don’t hurt others.  Eloquence isn’t limited to speaking and writing.  We can express ourselves in other ways like music, drama, painting or dance.  We should use our creative gifts to say things in a way that is interesting, truthful, memorable and faithful.

Truthful: God wants us to be truthful in all we do. Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’, so being honest and truthful means we are following in his footsteps and living life the way God wants us to. Being truthful is being faithful to ourselves and to Jesus. We should stand up for the truth.

Values and Virtues: Autumn 2

Faith-filled and Hopeful

This half term our values and virtues are Faith-filled and Hopeful.  

Faith-filled: We are faith-filled when we are living life as God inspires us to live it, putting the Gospel into action through our deeds.  Faith gives us belief and trust in God and in other people.  We have to build on it every day through prayer, being part of a faith community and living out the gospel values.  Faith gives us hope.

Hopeful:  We are hopeful when we are optimistic about the future, we trust ourselves and others, and we don't give up.  Our faith teaches us that God is hope - that Christ walks before us and gives us the courage to follow.  Hope makes us unafraid to step into the unknown and face challenges.  Hope can deepen or restore our faith.

Values and Virtues: Autumn 1

Loving and Compassionate

St Anne's values and virtues for this half term are Loving and Compassionate and the children are truly living out these in their daily lives.  Any examples of acts of Love and Compassion are shared and celebrated and displayed on our special Values and Virtues board.