We have taken Mark 12 v30-31 as our mission statement: ''Jesus said Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. Love your neighbour as yourself.''
Key to this is our pupils understanding that they belong a to a local and global community and Christian family. With this sense of belonging comes a responsability to empathise with others and make sacrifices in order to benefit others. As a school we carefully consider the fragility and beauty of our environment, the actions we take and impact these may have on the well-being of everyone.
Our school community and curriculum recognises and embraces a responsability for the world in which we live.
Here are some of the ways in which we show our connection with, and care for our world and the people who live in it.
Producing Renewbale Energy and Helping the Environment:
We were one of the first schools in the country to produce our own electricity, with our very own renewable energy wind turbine. This was installed at great cost, with the school and local community raising significant sums of money to install and maintain the turbine. Our work around producing more green energy is ongoing, with the children developing an understanding of how and why green energy and renewable fuels are important. As part of this responsability children actively recycle as many items as possible, including holding old batteries and food waste for composting. We were also the first school to visit the newly constructed Reccyling Centre in Bridport, where children got to see first hand where much of theri waste goes and what happens to it.
St. Barnabas School, Kinyamaseke, Uganda:
The school has a long standing and well established link with a primary school in Uganda, Africa. This link has seen us raise money to purchase a variety of resources for the school and even a new roof. Our support is ongoing and the children are currently raising money towards the installation of a children's compost toilet at the school.