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Is your child aged<br />
between two-and-a-half and<br />
school age?<br />
St Chad’s<br />
Preschool<br />
St Chad’s<br />
Pre-school<br />
Pop in for an info pack or call 07526<br />
100755. We would love to see you!<br />
St Chad’s Pre-school<br />
Opposite Abbey Lane School<br />
56 Abbey Lane, Woodseats S8 0BP<br />
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY FULL DAY SESSIONS<br />
Monday/Tuesday/Friday 8:45 - 11:45<br />
Wednesdays and Thursdays 8:45 - 3:15<br />
• A fun and exciting environment for your child<br />
• Experienced and qualified staff<br />
• Learning through play to help your child reach their potential<br />
• Free early learning funding for eligible children<br />
Loving the P<br />
As humans, we are programmed<br />
to seek community. It is when<br />
we live in community that we<br />
harness the best in each other.<br />
We may not always get on with<br />
our neighbours but for good or bad they<br />
are there and we will be happier and<br />
be more fulfi lled if we seek their welfare<br />
because our welfare is tied in with<br />
theirs in ways that we cannot always<br />
appreciate. Only when we grasp this<br />
truth will we be truly alive.<br />
Our society, currently, is a deeply<br />
individualistic one. We have<br />
largely lost the concept of<br />
helping others because we<br />
feel that we need to focus<br />
on ourselves and those<br />
closest to us and only<br />
then can we help others.<br />
I am not sure that will<br />
work in the long term<br />
because we will never<br />
have enough and only<br />
when we put the needs<br />
of others before ourselves<br />
will we see real growth in<br />
them and ourselves, although maybe<br />
not in the ways we might expect. If we<br />
wish to seek real change then we need<br />
community because the ‘whole is greater<br />
than the sum of the parts’. Only by<br />
working together can we bring about real<br />
change.<br />
Jean Vanier the founder of L’Arche<br />
communities which is spread over 37<br />
countries and is an organisation for<br />
people with developmental diffi culties<br />
and those who support them, put it like<br />
this: “One of the marvellous things<br />
about community is that it enables us to<br />
welcome and help people in a way we<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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email: offi ce@stchads.org<br />
website: www.stchads.org
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