The following worksheet was one which I gave to a Year Seven R.E. class, and while they were filling it in, I decided to do it myself; hence the poem entitled :- 'Confession' which I wrote afterwards, and read out to them. (I must have had a bad week, that week!)

It all goes to show we're not perfect. We all had a good laugh about it, as I read it out to them!

Love....... the  right  ingredients-

(1 Cor 13)

Instructions to the children:-

Cross out which phrases do not apply to you, circle those that do.

I am patient : 

I am kind :

I put up with a lot without losing my  temper:

 I never ever demand my own way :

I do not boss others around:

I never hold grudges: 

I never point out other people’s faults : 

I am never jealous:

I am not envious of anyone :

I never boast /show off :

I am not a proud person : 

I am never selfish : I am never rude:

I am never irritable :

I am not touchy or overly  sensitive.

 Now add up the ones you've circled; what is your score out of a possible 15  points? ____

So would you say you were a loving person? Yes:No

Now why don’t you try the questionnaire if you dare!

Then read the following poem and find out what happened when I ‘circled’ the ones which applied to me at the time!

CONFESSION TIME:

Look at this questionnaire

Just see what you can do

Put a circle round the ‘I am’s’

If you think that it is you.

Then cross out all the phrases

That you def’nitely are not

Then add up all the circles,

And see just what you’ve got.

See if you can score eleven marks or more.

(“I bet he’ll be a seven,

He a five, and she a four!”)

Now just as an exercise

While I’m waiting for this lot,

I’ll add up all my fifteen,

And see what I have got.

(I’m sure to score quite well of course,

I’m a Christian and I'm cool.

A priest and R.E. teacher,

And I don’t break any rules.)

That’s a cross, and a circle,

And a circle and a cross,

And a cross and a cross,

and a cross and a cross!

……….

Just now wait a minute,

This can’t possibly be me!

My total isn’t fifteen.

It just adds up to three!