During our chapel session, we looked at our mission statement and how we can embody it and work to achieve it in our day to day lives. We also discussed how the college mission statement can be lived out through The De Lisle way. The De Lisle way refers to six virtues that we are encouraged to live by to reflect our Catholic ethos. They are things such as making a difference, respecting our community and being a positive role model. Every student has a card to keep in their blazer pocket to get signed whenever a member of staff witnesses a student carrying out one of these virtues.
We discussed how we could be a positive role model by asking and answering questions in class. We talked about how we can show prayerfulness in class or during Acts of Worship. Both of these things are a part of our mission statement where we state that we are ‘we are together in faith’ and ‘inspired to achieve’. It gave us all a chance to think about how we can embody our college Mission statement and The De lisle Way at the same time.
Richard – Year 9
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During our Chapel lesson, we spoke about the individual importance and uniqueness we each hold in the church community and in society. We heard a reading about the importance of each part of the body and what it could mean in day to day life, such as our duty to “do what is right, not what is easy”. Some of things we spoke about was our purpose to care for one another and the earth and how our De Lisle way card can inspire us to do these things. Lastly, we came up with, as a class, a list of ways we can embody the De Lisle virtues everyday with small deeds. Overall it was a very calm and reflective time. I think it is is very important to reflect, especially during exam time where we can be so caught up in stress we forget to reflect on the little things in life which are so important.