Designed to serve as a personal development resource for all who work in schools and for teachers and TAs, this book provides materials for staff development activities and resources for use in classrooms. It relates to the Every Child Matters agenda, and offers strategies for implementing key components of spiritual and moral development.

Part 1 Principles; 1. Educating the whole child; 2. Education, spirituality and morality; 3. Learning for understanding; 4. The school as a spiritual and moral community; Ubuntu: developing the person; 5. Building leadership capacity; 6. Monitoring and Evaluation; Part 2 Practice; This section will identify the key components of spiritual and moral development and offer strategies to support their implementation; 7. Understanding right and wrong; 8. Making moral choices; 9. Relationships and respect; 10. Empathy and compassion; 11. Fairness, equity and inclusion; 12. Tolerance and acceptance; 13. Community and service; 14. Compassion, caring and charity; 15. Beauty and creativity; 16. Reflection, stillness; 17. Joy, celebration; 18. The transcendent, wonder and worship.