Lent Challenges – Be the change…Doing the right thing

Week 6 - 27^th March 2023

This week our ‘Doing the right thing’ challenges have been:

1. Congratulate others when they do well.
2. Be the first to say sorry.
3. Be brave by trying something you find hard.
4. Follow instructions without complaining.
5. Don’t interrupt; listen carefully instead.

Class Collective worship:

In our Class Collective Worship, we thought about different scenarios where we needed to make a choice whether we did the right thing or not. We listened to the story of Esther from the Bible and thought about how she could have easily not acted but the right thing to do was to approach the King and ask for her people to be spared. We reflected on these questions:

• I wonder what the ‘right thing’ might be for each of us today?
• I wonder why it’s so hard to do the right things sometimes?
• I wonder what might help us to keep doing the right things?

We thought about how we could help each other do the right thing.

Pupil Thoughts:

I wonder what the ‘right thing’ might be for each of us today?

• Ezra K said he congratulated Ebenezer after he received the dojo champion certificate.
• Annabel- ‘I think the right thing for us to do today is to say sorry to people who hurt themselves’
• Fatimah – ‘if someone forces you to do something bad you could ignore them and do the right thing’
• Eshaal – ‘Maybe if you’ve done something bad you don’t want to tell the truth because you think you might get in trouble’
• Isaac – Not fiddling in lessons – start by listening and keep on doing that, if you start by fiddling it’s hard to catch up
• Robert – you might get in less trouble for being honest, if the teacher finds out you were lying you will be in even more trouble.
• Jaia – Talk to someone about it, not being mean back

I wonder why it’s so hard to do the right things sometimes?

• Claudia- ‘I think it’s hard to do the right thing sometimes because you think something bad will happen to you, you may feel like a sneak for telling on them’
• Amara – ‘sometimes when you are lying it is a little bit hard to tell the truth’
• Pragna – you might want the bully to get hurt or in trouble, it is hard to forgive them
• Gervas – if your anger overtakes you.
• Eva- following instructions without complaining is really hard.
• Mabel – If someone is being mean to you, it can be frustrating and all you want to do is be mean back.
• Tylon – Sometimes when someone is bullying you, you don’t want to help them, but you also don’t want them to get hurt – so it’s hard.

I wonder what might help us to keep doing the right things?

• Mirai – ‘keep reading the ten commandments every day’
• Stephanie – ‘stop lying because when you continually lie then your parents will stop trusting you’
• William – ‘it’s hard to not lie sometimes because sometimes you don’t want to get in trouble you want the other person to get in trouble instead’
• Akila - Believing in the right thing helps you do the right thing.
• Isaac – Start by doing the right thing and it will help you keep going.
• Robyn – Take time to sit down and have peace and quiet, have a breather, when someone is mean to you