Y5 and Y6 visit St Paul's.
Years 5 and Year 6 visited beautiful St Paul's Cathedral last week. They had been invited there to take part in a new workshop centred around the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit. Whilst there, in 1964, he had delivered a sermon to 4,000 people entitled The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life. Our children learnt about the core message behind that sermon and they enjoyed listening to a sound recording of King Jr. paraphrasing the poem Be the Best of Whatever You Are. Here is a snippet of that poem, originally by Douglas Malloch:
'If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill
Be a scrub in the valley - but be
The best little scrub on the side of the hill,
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a highway just be a trail
If you can’t be the sun be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or fail -
Be the best of whatever you are.
And when you do this, when you do this,
Be a scrub in the valley - but be
The best little scrub on the side of the hill,
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a highway just be a trail
If you can’t be the sun be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or fail -
Be the best of whatever you are.
And when you do this, when you do this,
you’ve mastered the length of life.'
