Christian Community

Our Christian Values

At St Anne’s CE Primary School, we encourage pupils to understand and promote our school Christian values. We promote Christian values through celebrations such as Christmas, Easter and Harvest, as well as collective worship, prayer and reflection. Our Christian Values help the children to develop as they continue through school and their faith journey.

Building better futures together through…

Compassion

Children at St Anne’s are taught to show kindness and a thoughtful attitude towards others. We are sympathetic in understanding the needs of others in school, the wider community and internationally. 

Thankfulness

Pupils are encouraged to self-reflect for what they are thankful for and to write their own prayers of thanks for whole school worship. Our harvest celebration places great focus on being thankful 

Courage

At St Anne's, we recognise that it can take great courage to do something new or challenging. Sometimes just small steps are needed, but they can take us to new and exciting places!

Justice

Pupils are encouraged to promote British and Co-operative Values and attitudes of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, tolerance of others and justice within the school and wider communities.

Friendship

Here at St Anne’s pupils are encouraged to be the best friend they can be, to their peers and children around school, putting each of our Christian values into action.

Respect

The children are encouraged to go on a path of self-discovery. Children learn how to take responsibility for their own learning and personal development, as well as how to treat and respect other humans, animals and property.

Generosity

A good way to test how generous we are being to others is to think about whether we are being as good to others as we are being to ourselves. At St Anne's we reflect on Jesus' teachings to "Love your neighbour as yourself," and we have a great focus on generosity during the harvest.

Trust

Pupils are encouraged to trust one another and have a firm belief in the school and its systems, resulting in pupils who are positive and confident in their learning.

Perseverance

We work together to overcome any obstacles, however challenging, to achieve our goals. We try and try again, building resilience which helps us deal with any disappointments on our journey to success.

Forgiveness

St Anne’s pupils are encouraged to forgive others and reflect on others actions with mercy and grace. Forgiveness is one of the many values encouraged through the schools’ behaviour policy. Our Easter production performed by LKS2 places great focus on forgiveness.

Service

Our words of wisdom for the value 'service' are

"Serve one another in love." Galatians 5:13

We all have talents that we can use to serve others or brighten up their lives. We are always looking to unveil hidden talents here at St Anne's.

Truthfulness

St Anne’s pupils are encouraged to tell the truth. Truthfulness is one of the many values encouraged through the schools’ behaviour policy.

St Anne's CE Values

Home School Christian Values

At St Anne's, we hope to strengthen our links with parents by sharing with you our 'Christian Value in Focus' each half term. Please click on the link below for fun activities to complete as a family, alongside topics to stimulate discussion and reflection around the value, thankfulness. We would love for you to bring in any work you complete as a family for us to display in school or on the website.

There are common elements to each of the Home School Christian Value activities:

 Talk About - A short introduction to the aspect of the value addressed, as well as questions to discuss together

 Read Together - A version of a key Bible story for each value especially written to be read aloud

 Words of Wisdom - A wise saying to think about and reflect upon

 Fascinating Facts - Facts and figures to amaze and marvel at

 Family Focus - A fun activity to involve all the family

 Home-School Challenge - Something creative to make to take back to school for the value challenge gallery

 Hall of Fame - An inspirational character who has demonstrated the value in the way they have lived their lives

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

This half term, we will be learning all about Trust and how important this value is in relation to the Christmas story.

Please have a look at the Home-School Value Activity sheet below for some fantastic ideas on how you can talk about trust at home.

Spring 1

This half term, we will be learning all about Perseverance and how important this value is in relation to the work we have been doing on developing a growth mind-set.

Please have a look at the Home-School Value Activity sheet below for some fantastic ideas on how you can talk about perseverance at home

Spring 2

This half term, we will be learning all about Justice.

When thinking about ‘justice’, some people think first about giving wrongdoers the punishment they deserve. ‘Justice’ evokes ideas of ‘just deserts’, ’the punishment fitting the crime’, ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’.

However, that would be a one-sided picture of justice. Justice also means giving all people - particularly the poor and oppressed - what it is right and fair for them to have: life, health, freedom and dignity. It is about acting out of a concern for what is right and seeing right prevail. It is about social justice, especially for those who suffer most and are least able to protect themselves.

Please have a look at the Home-School Value Activity sheet below for some fantastic ideas on how you can talk about Justice at home.

Summer 1

This half term, we will be learning all about Service

Jesus was called the ‘servant king’; his mission was to serve God and to serve all those people he met, through his teaching, his example and the way he led his life. This half term, we will be thinking about how we might serve others and help to make others smile!

Please have a look at the Home-School Value Activity sheet below for some fantastic ideas on how you can talk about Service at home.

Summer 2

This half term, we will be learning all about truthfulness. 

St Anne’s, pupils are encouraged to always tell the truth. Truthfulness is one of the many values encouraged through the schools’ behaviour policy. 

Please have a look at the Home-School Value Activity sheet below for some fantastic ideas on how you can talk about truthfulness at home.