St Bede's links with Rwanda

Mrs Duck, our headteacher, was invited to visit Rwanda during February half term 2020. She travelled with a small team from Winchester Diocese to make links with schools in the Shyogwe Diocese.

Please find more information about this visit below:

Standing together - Peace Poles

Year 6 made Peace Poles, which form part of our St Bede Peace Garden. They remind us of our commitment to standing and growing together in love and peace, and our hope that we can behave in a way that enables peace to prevail on earth.

Please read an excerpt from the Winchester Diocese Summer 2020 Newsletter, below:

"Peace is one of our core values at St Bede. Our motto is ‘Growing Together’ and our aim is to grow together with love and peace; by doing this we hope that we can all play a part in making the world a better place. So the idea of creating peace poles for our school was especially appealing.

Mrs Duck, Head teacher has shared with us the following idea. ‘Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work, it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.’ Before working on the design for our peace pole, we thought about what peace means to each of us and why we value it. We looked at images which are used to represent peace, while listening to music which helped us feel peaceful. Bella said that her design included ‘a rainbow over water because they feel calming and hopeful. These feelings in turn make me feel at peace.’ Suzu said ‘we need peace to bring balance in our lives, especially at the moment when you look at what is happening in the world.’ Jenson said ‘When people stop looking for peace bad things happen, like wars, if people kept trying to find peace, maybe they wouldn’t.’

Making our peace poles, helped us think about the importance of peace in our lives. They will be a lasting legacy to the importance of peace in our lives now and in the future. The thoughts of Year 6, have been celebrated as they move on to secondary school and the peace poles which they decorated are being put in the middle of our peace garden at school."

Bee Project - Stewardship. Working Together to protect God’s World and to serve the Common Good

Peace

Following - How God loves and cares for us as a shepherd love and cares for his/her sheep.