Collective Worship is an integral part of our school day. We come together as a school at the start of each day to reflect, to sing hymns and to pray. As a Church of England school, our worship focuses around our school values. Each of these links back to Christian values and are rooted in the Bible.
We know that not all children in our school are of a Christian faith. We teach respect and tolerance in all that we do. All children attend our worship and are asked to join in with the prayer by bowing their head if they agree with the sentiment of the words being spoken.
Our School Values are rooted in our Christian faith but we also know these values will help our children to be model citizens as they get older.
KINDNESS
COMMUNITY
HONESTY
CURIOSITY
CREATIVITY
AMBITION
HOPE
COMMUNITY
HONESTY
CURIOSITY
CREATIVITY
AMBITION
HOPE
Reverend Linda leads worship on the first Monday of each month at 9.05am. This is a wonderful way to start our week coming together to reflect. Worship with Linda often involves puppets, stories from the Bible and acting things out. In one such example, Rev. Linda shared Matthew's, Parable of the Kingdom. Whilst explaining how a little can make a big difference, she made bread to demonstrate that a small amount of yeast makes a huge difference to the bread.
Even during school closures for COVID-19, Collective Worship continued and children were sent a video daily so they could watch the worship in their own homes with their family. We received so many positive comments from parents following each session. On many occasions, children did something to act on the worship such as a kind deed for someone else, a drawing of their bucket or show you care hearts.
"We are finding the collective worship videos really inspiring. Our daughter told us that love is the future not Coronavirus." Reception parent
"It's lovely to share in collective worship." Year 1 parent
