Rt Rev Dr Jonathan Frost, Bishop of Portsmouth, visited The Bay CE School last week (Wednesday 6th September).
Reverend Frost met with pupils and staff, who welcomed him into the school community. Starting at the primary site, he had a tour around the school. He was then led by four Year 6 pupils as they walked him over to the secondary site.
At the secondary site he was joined by some Year 7 pupils, along with the Year 6 pupils for a pupil conference. The Bay CE School is the only church all-through school on the Isle of Wight.
The pupils asked him a variety of interesting questions such as…
- What can the church do to support people’s mental health?
- How would you motivate people to find out more about Christianity?
- Do you think it’s important for all students to study RE in school and why?
- What is your favourite part of being a Bishop?
- What was your favourite subject at school?
The pupils were interested to hear about how he once travelled to Australia and played cricket for a local team and his favourite subject at school was sport. He talked passionately about how he sees one of the roles of being a Bishop to speak up boldly if he sees something unfair in society.
After listening with great interest to the pupils and finding out how they had settled into the new term he had a tour of the secondary site.
Lexi from Year 6 said:
“I was really proud to be asked to meet with Bishop Jonathan. He was interested in what we thought about our school and it was a great opportunity to get to ask him questions.”
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Duncan Mills, Executive Headteacher said
“We were delighted to welcome Rt Rev Dr Jonathan Frost, the Bishop of Portsmouth to our school community. As the only Church of England, all-through school on the Isle of Wight, he was keen to find out about the running of the school across two sites. He enjoyed the pupil conference and welcomed the questions put to him.”
More child indoctrination. Every child is born Atheist until an adult corrupts them.
children are born without any knowledge of any belief systems – they are then indoctrinated by the adults around them, to see the world in the same way that those adults do.
partly because the adults perpetuate their own beliefs and partly because adults can’t answer the big questions, such as ..how did all life begin