Collective Worship Policy – Feb 2024

Planning – Autumn Term 1    

Week 5 – Respect

Week 4 – Respect

Week 3 – Respect

Week 3 – Great Spirit Prayer

          Week 2 – Respect

Week 1 – Well Dressing

The following documents are helpful guides for expressing your faith with Worship at Home.

Compassion

Generosity

Friendship

Trust

Thankfulness

Service

   

In- school Collective Worship:

All children take part in a daily act of Collective Worship. As a church school we follow a Christian calendar of festivals and national themes such as Anti-Bullying Week and the Coronation.

Our act of Worship is an important part of the day and the content reflects the schools Christian Values whilst acknowledging the wider world. Time is spent listening, singing, praying and reflecting. All members of the teaching staff lead Collective Worship. It is planned on a value from Values for Life/ Roots and Fruits (Imaginor).

Within Collective Worship the children are given the opportunity to reflect not only on the subject matter within the Collective Worship but also on current events throughout the world. This provides a safe environment for the children to consider and empathize with people and communities who are less fortunate than themselves, or who have suffered in unforeseeable events.

Some of the children are selected to be on a small worship team where they plan and deliver a collective worship on the current value for life. This will include songs, prayers, stories and other activities chosen by the worship team.

A weekly prayer leader from Class 1 and Class 2 is chosen to lead the daily prayers. TSP (Thank you, Sorry, Please) prayers are used as a template for child-led prayers.

A worship table/ board in the hall reflects the current value for life with prompts / questions and objects.

External visitors for Collective Worship:

Representatives from the local church are invited to take part or lead our Worships.  Parents/carers and members of the wider community are also invited to attend Worships every term. The children themselves requested that they present samples of their work and take a greater leadership role as part of these Worships, which are hosted in St Giles Church.  To maintain the link between the school and church, the Parish Vicar is invited to attend these Celebration Worships to take an active role. Our Foundation Governors, as the representatives from the Diocese, are also invited.

Parents/Carers wishing their child/children to be withdrawn from all religious education and Collective Worship should contact the Headteacher.

Once a term we welcome M.A.S.T. (Matlock Area Schools Trust), who present Bible Stories to the children using puppetry.  Our Benefice Vicar visit will take services either in school or in the church.

Collective Worship

NOTICEBOARD

2024

October
Thurs 3rd – PTA AGM 3.30pm
Tues 8th – 9.15am MAST Assembly
Thurs 10th – Parent Consultations
Fri 11th – Harvest Festival in Church 2.30pm
Tues 22nd – 8.30am Tempest Photo’s Families & Individual
Tues 22nd – 11am Flu Immunisation
Thurs 24th – Governors Mtg 4.30pm
Fri 25th – Break for Half Term

November
Mon 4th – Back to school
Sat 9th – School Christmas Fair
Fri 22nd – Schools Together

Fri 29th – MAST Assembly

December
Thurs 12th – Nativity 6pm followed by Pie & Peas at the Village Hall
Mon 16th – Chester Zoo Visit
Weds 18th – Panto Buxton Opera House – Jack & the Beanstalk
Thurs 19th – Christmas Dinner
Fri 20th – Christmas Party then break for Christmas Holidays