Church of England launches website to help nurture good schools

[Dave Roberts]

The Church of England has launched a new web resource identifying the values it believes make faith schools a success. The website identifies 15 core values for schools, including trust, forgiveness, service and “koinonia” - the Ancient Greek word for “fellowship”.

The project has been commissioned by the Church of England’s National Society to enable the Church's 5,000 as well as schools without formal church links to explore these themes with a view to making a school distinctively Christian, while remaining inclusive. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, speaks of what makes faith schools distinctive in an introductory video on the website. “A Christian school is one in which the atmosphere has that kind of openness about it, that sense that people are worth spending time with, that people need time to grow, need loving attention. The Christian Gospel says that every person has a unique task to do, with God, and for God, whether they know it or not," he says.

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