What are the children learning about the Sacrament of Confession or Sacrament of Reconciliation?

The school programme, Grow In Love, focuses on the fundamental goodness of us all as God’s children. The children learn how, despite their own uniqueness, they need relationships. If they do not make an effort, if they are selfish, bully or generally misbehave they break these relationships. They become disconnected from their own goodness, from the group and from God. To re-establish these relationships they are challenged to see where they have gone wrong or where they could have done better (examination of conscience), they acknowledge it and say sorry. So in a very concrete way they learn what the Sacrament of Reconciliation is about.