Collective Worship

As a church school, our daily act of worship is really important to us and how we start the day off well. Our worship is invitational, inclusive and inspirational. In worship, we help children to develop spiritually whatever thier world views.  We reflect on our world and our place in it, as well as thinking about how humans can impact the world and each other in good and bad ways.

Our usual pattern of worship is:

Mondays: World Aware Worship – We hear about events that have happened recently across the world.  These might be from Picture News or responding to significant events that have happened during the previous week. We use our oracy skills to talk about our own views on the news and think about how the ‘wows and the ows’ make us feel using our windows mirrors and doors questions. We hear about what The Bible says to Christians about the topic, and what other famous people have to say about it too.  We remember the UNCRC rights that we and all children in the world should have. Mrs Smith uses our prayer jelly babies to say a prayer which we can join in with if we would like. We finish our worship with a celebration of the birthdays for the week with candles on our sustainable celebration ring and singing our birthday song!

Tuesdays: Theme of the Week Worship – One of our class teachers helps us explore an aspect of our current theme. At the moment our theme is ‘What does ‘Doing All Things With Love’ look like?’. We might have a fun introduction with a game or a story and then find out how that links into a message from The Bible.  This could be acted out by some children, shown on a video, or read from a story book. We think about what that theme means for us whether it challenges us to do something differently. We take an object from worship back to our Spirituality Spaces in our classrooms so we can remember our theme. At the moment we are making a jigsaw of all the different Christian values that we can show which means we have done something ‘with love’.

Wednesdays: Wellbeing Worship – Wednesdays are all about Wellbeing in our school, so we use our worship to bring joy and connect to others by singing hymns together. We especially love ones with actions! We also think about what spirituality means for us and we gather up all the prayer treasure chests from around school so we can share some prayers we have written during the week.

Thursdays: Theme of the Week Worship – We usually have a visitor from church come to school on Thursdays to help Mrs Smith who leads the worship.  We explore our theme of the week a little bit more with objects, costumes, painting or games which make our worship lots of fun! We hear another story from the Bible that helps us to understand what Christians think about the theme of the week.

Fridays: Amazing Attitude Award – Each week we celebrate a different amazing attitude.  This might be one of our Christian values, such as generosity; or one of our curriculum drivers, such as creativity. We find out a bit more about what the attitude means and what the Bible tells Christians about that attitude. We use our windows, mirrors and doors questions to respond spiritually to what we have found out. Each class teacher choses someone from the class who has shown that attitude at school during the week and we celebrate that person by hearing from them how they showed their amazing attitude and giving them a certificate to say ‘well done!’