58 Chapel As I look back at the year that has passed, it would be fair to say that it has challenged us in new ways.Whilst the effects of COVID-19 are still evident across much of our world, we are also, thankfully, beginning to see how we might emerge from this. The constraints of social distancing and the general restrictions upon face-to-face encounters have perhaps made us more aware than ever of the importance of our shared life and of the simple pleasure we gain from spending time with one another. For much of the year, our Chapel services have been online and it has been a challenge and a joy putting together a ‘Chapel film’ for each week. The challenges of this last year have left me looking once more to our core values of Virtue, Learning and Manners to help find a way to face these challenges and continue to maintain and strengthen the fabric of our community. In Michaelmas term, we explored Virtue through an examination of five people who, in different ways, reveal the virtuous characteristics of Courage, Humility, a Desire for Justice, Respect and Compassion. In the second term we turned to Learning and explored the importance of the 5C’s in education - critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaboration and co-existing. In the summer term we explored Manners with 4As which give shape to how we relate to one another - awareness of others, addressing others, accepting others and action towards others. The social restrictions in place in 2020, forced us to reconsider how we might gather for our annual Act of Remembrance. For the first time we decided to live-stream our Remembrance from the Chapel where a small group of staff, pupils and members of our Combined Cadet Force, led this service. In a moving service, our CCF laid a drum head altar in
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