Our College has determined that its core purpose is to 
equip students for a life of redemptive action. 

This week we focus on what it means to equip them.

I suggested previously that education can be seen as a means to prepare a child for life and this goes beyond just thinking of their intellect but of them as a whole person.  This is good thinking, but sometimes governments want to assume a role in this that ignores the fact that actually parents are the first educators of children and schools exist to supplement, support and extend the role of parents in educating a child – not completely dominate that role.

We want to work with you to equip your children to live the life God intends for all humans - a life lived in obedience to Him and in service to the Creation and to others. We can offer particular help in the intellectual or academic field, ie we can help them to develop the skills of learning and to gain knowledge and understanding of many different aspects of the world. We can help them apply this understanding in sensible ways – what we often call wisdom; knowing how to do things in a way that is right, helpful and productive, bringing good as a result.

We can help them to discover their abilities and gifts and with your support, create opportunities for those abilities and gifts to be fostered and honed. This may come in the academic subjects or in practical subjects or on the sports field or in the choir or band and so on. The goal is to ensure that what they have inherently can be fully developed and utilised.

We can help them to understand the world from many different perspectives – mathematically, poetically, historically, artistically, chemically etc filling in gaps in areas where you as parents may not have expertise or experience.

We can give them the skills to explore the world and begin to recognise what part they might play in caring for it and developing it. Because we are called to be the caretakers of the world and to develop society, we need to equip them to play their part in this human mandate.

We can encourage them spiritually and help them to understand the Christian faith (and other faiths), equipping them with the insights they need to make wise choices in life. In this we work with the home and the Church to help them to be spiritually strong and confident people.

By very nature of the fact that we have a lot of children all together, we can equip them to live well with others, co-operating in learning and living. We can help them gain the skills to live at peace with others, to resolve conflict, to treat others with respect and honour, to understand their place in a team, to joyfully accept and value the gifts of others.

We can equip them with personal qualities like courage, perseverance, commitment, and curiosity through the activities they engage in during school hours.  As we do our part and you do yours, we can together help to equip them for life.