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QUAKERISM
AT PENN CHARTER
What's
a Friend? by parent Maggie Lockwood explores how the values
and practices of the Religious Society of Friends are experienced
by students and parents at Penn Charter.
In the following reflections, parents and/or teachers reflect
on the way in Quakerism shapes a student's experience in all
three divisions:
Quaker Life in Motion: Upper School
Quaker Life in Motion: Middle School
Quaker Life in Motion: Lower School
Quaker
Curriculum provides an overview of religious studies courses.
To read student work on Quakerism
...
Visit these blogs about:
Testimonies http://blog.penncharter.com/testimonies
Music for Change http://blog.penncharter.com/musicforchange
Coming soon ... Peruse these brochures, each of which was
a collaborative effort by students in 10th and third grades.
(The brochures are saved a Adobe Acrobat files.)
Equality
Simplicty
Integrity
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Quaker
Focus of the
Month
December 2008:
Simplicity
Do you clear away the clutter in your life so that you
can more readily hear the "still small voice of God"?
Simplicity is not just simple clothes and a simple lifestyle.
It's an organization of the mind that enables you to sort
out the unimportant details that often clutter your thoughts.
-- Sidwell Friends School 7th grader
Simplicity does not mean
drabness or narrowness but focusing on what is important to
us in life, and letting go of anything that dilutes our energies
and scatters our thoughts.
--North Carolina Yearly Meeting
Everything should be made a simple as it can be, but not simpler.
--Albert Einstein
January 2009:
Justice and Equality
How does
our School community respond to injustice and promote fairness?
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel
of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
-- Desmond Tutu
Cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek justice, correct
oppression. Isaiah 1:16-17 This country will not be a good
place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place
for all of us to live in.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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