"This morning I have had the chance to look around the School and to see some of your work.  I’ve been very inspired by what’s being done here, and very inspired by the vision of this school. 

The motto of this school is “Knowledge Is Power”.  In the Bible, the power of God is always something that is used to create new things.  It creates the world, it creates new life, it creates new possibilities for human beings.  When we ask for power, we are asking that we may help to make the world new, that we may give other people new opportunities, that we ourselves may discover that we can be made new – forgiven, restored, empowered.

Knowledge helps us to make that kind of difference - to make a different society and a different world, to create new things and new possibilities.  And that means that the knowledge we need in school and beyond is not just the knowledge we learn in the classroom – it is the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves.  When we know who our God is, when we know that God is a God who gives us new beginnings and new possibilities, when we know that we as human beings are always capable of new things and growing further, then we have the knowledge that matters. 

We begin with the knowledge of God - the creator God, the redeemer God.  We go on to the knowledge of ourselves and one another - what are we like, men and women; what are our possibilities.  And when we know God and when we know ourselves, then the knowledge we learn in the classroom becomes something that really makes a difference in our world. 

“Knowledge Is Power”.  With the knowledge of God, the knowledge of ourselves and our neighbours and the knowledge of the world around, we will make a new society and a new world together, to the honour and glory of God.  I pray that that knowledge and that power will be yours all through your lives.  May God bless you and this School."