Virtues to Live By – 2 Year Cycle
‘Virtues to Live By’, enables children to explore each virtue over a three-week period (two per half term) to improve the school community’s virtue literacy and to deepen the understanding and appreciation of the essential role the virtues play in the education of the whole person towards human flourishing. The virtues chosen are common across culture s and faiths, but are sourced from the Christian tradition.
The “Virtues to Live By” approach is deeply rooted in scripture and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Each week, our collective worship sessions center around a specific virtue, allowing children to reflect on its significance and how they can embody it in their lives. The virtues we focus on include:
- Respect
- Kindness
- Honesty
- Patience
- Compassion
- Forgiveness
- Generosity
- Justice
- Courage
- Hope
- Gratitude
- Love
- Integrity
- Humility
- Service
To ensure children and young people are given opportunities to:
- Experience a positive and purposeful ethos providing a sense of belonging to their school community.
- Grow in their knowledge and understanding of the virtues.
- Practise the virtutes to further the call to live life to the full.
- Appreciate the connection between biblical and practical wisdom and living.
- Hear the Christian story and encounter it in practice.
- Understand their uniqueness and dignity as made in the image and likeness of God.
- Know that our limitations are also opportunities for growth.
- To notice, reflect, to pray and to play.
- To exercise the cognitive, affective and behavioural components of character: Know it in our head, feel it in your heart and show it with your hands.
