The hope of Easter continues

Before Easter I led, with Rev Lindsay Hammond vicar of St Mildred’s Tenterden, our school Easter Services. This is the annual service that all year 8 attend as part of their school day and happened this year in the Schools Sinden Theatre

This year it happened in the midst of Holy Week. Lindsay and I took the opportunity to story-tell the events of the first Holy Week from Palm Sunday, through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and to the celebration of Easter Day. At each time capturing some sense of the emotions that must have been flowing from hope and expectancy through the disciples fear and disbelief to a place of hope once again. As Christians we know how the story ends and how that hope permeates our lives, but what does that hope mean for the young people that I work with on a daily basis.

As we enter into the final months of this academic year over 1200 students at Homewood are preparing for public examinations, all hoping for the best grade possible to help them get to the next step of their lives. Teachers are hoping that the enormous amount of work they have put in over the past year and longer will be absorbed by their students and help them achieve the best they can. And as a Christian I pray that the hope they have, through the hard work they have put in, will be richly rewarded in their achievement of results that they can be proud of.