Farrington Gurney Church of England Primary School

Our school community prepares the way for children, as John the Baptist did for Jesus, to find fulfilment for themselves and others, to flourish as they learn to forgive and to seek forgiveness, and to build upon the firm foundation of Jesus' teachings. According to John 1:8, "John himself was not the light; he was merely a witness to testify about the light." We conducted a special celebratory assembly on Friday, September 13th. We have a team dedicated to our school's vision and values. This is a group of students at the school who are interested in supporting and fostering our school's vision and the values that go along with it. The Vision and Values team kicked off our assembly by reminding the kids of our new school vision and what it meant as a welcome back to the new academic year. Children from Classes 2, 3 and 4 were all able to input and answer questions about the names of the people included in our school vision, what were the three words within the tagline of our vision and also what these three words actually mean. Even a few of the parents showed up to participate and held up the phrases from our tagline in front of the class. We continued with the rest of our celebration service, but the Vision and Values team helped set our year off to a good start, by reminding us all about what our school aims to promote, value and cherish.