As a school, ‘community’ is a value we hold in high regard. Our generosity of spirit expresses this value, which the Anglican Board of Education for Southern Africa describes as follows:

One of the hallmarks of an Anglican Church school is a spirit of kindness, compassion, and respect for all people. This expresses itself in healthy relationships in the school and toward the wider community. Concern for the common good is shown through community service and support of charity, and in healthy relationships with those of other faiths. The school is a welcoming and safe place. The school quickly identifies and responds appropriately to any member of the school community who is in need and who needs healing and wholeness (ABESA 2016).

I raise this point about the generosity of spirit as we have just had our first diversity assembly. Our Anglican identity, in its genius, demands of us to embrace diversity in its most straightforward and most complex forms, for example, the importance of holding different Christian traditions in tension. It also reminds us that diversity in our community is not something to be discussed separately. Instead, it runs through and underpins our way of being as the body of Christ. One body with many parts (1 Corinthians 12).

REVD RAKGADI KHOBO
CHAPLAIN