Christian Ethos & Values

Introduction

“Character education requires learning and development to be set into context against an understanding of what it means to be human and how the world works. While lists of virtues and values can be a helpful way of assisting people in understanding what character education may look like in the classroom, these are insufficient without a coherent and rigorous sense of purpose underpinning them. This sense of purpose will, inevitably, be culturally specific, rooted in particular communities and their beliefs and practices.”

“The Fruits of the Spirit” A Church of England discussion paper on character education

Executive summary published by Church of England Education Office 2015

“The Church school offers a spiritual and moral basis of the development of human wholeness and a sure foundation for personal and social values based on the person and ministry of Christ. The Church school offers a distinctive language for understanding life and interpreting human experience. As a community of faith, the Church school should, in its best expression, reflect the nature of the Trinity, a life shared and defined by reference to others. Here we can begin to discover who we are, why we are, and – perhaps most importantly – what we might be.”

The Way Ahead

Church of England Schools in the New Millennium

Church house Publishing