Year 7 explore Methodist foundation
Year 7 pupils got to learn more about the links between the school and its Methodist foundation.
The entire year group spent the afternoon of Wednesday, October 19 at St John’s Church with Religious Studies department staff where they took part in three sessions.
The first session was thinking generally about ‘being connected’, and about how we express our connectedness by working together.
Pupils’ formed four groups to create a body which they then decorated, cut up and made walk across the room.
The second session was an exploration of the lives of the four founders of the school houses: Bishop William Morgan, the Rev’d John Wesley, the Rev’d Frederick Payne and Thomas Osborn.
To find out information pupils’ had to hunt the clues down around the church and then present their findings.
Finally they thought about the words of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who said that “children should not come to school to be taught like parrots”.
The pupils discussed things they had been told as children to do or believe without any chance to think it through themselves. They then put these ideas in speech bubbles and made coloured parrots to speak them.
These were also put up in chapel as a reminder that we come to school to think for ourselves and to not to be taught ‘parrot fashion.’