It is now a few weeks into being back on campus full time and it has been great to have the students engaging positively with life once more.
Despite the tensions in the community, there is a collective determination to come together and move forward. Whilst we cannot engage in full contact sport, students are still engaging in a range of competitive activities which include developing skills, gamesmanship and teamwork. The recent House Sport Competition was a great testament to how students have adapted to the changes that have taken place. We are looking forward to providing more opportunities for students to give account of themselves across the Senior School.
Our Virtual Assemblies and Chapels still provide opportunities for the College to come together around a common theme. This semester we have been focusing on ‘Loving in Relationships’. Although we have put a spotlight on this topic, it doesn't mean that putting the ‘theory into practice’ is easy. Doing relationships well is hard work and there are times when we get this wrong. When this happens, tempers fray and communication can break down. At a time when there is already a sense of anxiousness across our community it is even more important that we be more determined to bring people together to resolve and talk about our differences/ issues. I think this can happen at every level: in the classroom, in the playground, across friendship groups and via our electronic communication.
Remember, we are loved so passionately by a great God and when we connect with this reality, it is so much easier to share this with our broader community.
'Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.' 1 John 4:7-8
