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Collective Worship

 

 

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Collective Worship

Collective worship in our school has the purpose of exploring our vision and values and strengthening our community. It also allows us to encounter and explore the teachings of God and Jesus, allows us to look at other worldviews and real-life stories, and gives us another opportunity to grow spiritually.

Inclusive, Invitational, Inspirational

Collective Worship in our school is:

  • Inclusive - it includes all adults and children, parents and the wider community at certain times, reflects the faiths and backgrounds of our school and is supported by our church partnership.
  • Invitational – there are opportunities to engage, to pray and reflect if children wish to in their own way; it includes pupil contributions and invites them to respond.
  • Inspirational – it helps form individuals and their characters by having the focus on our values, provides sound and silence, stillness and movement and has a living message that our children can take out with them to make a change to our world.

Our Collective Worships include:

  • Greeting (for example, the lighting of the 3 candles to represent the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit with a call and response)
  • Engagement (a key stimulus for example, Bible story, news story, poem, story from another culture)
  • Reflection (for example, reflection on the stimulus, questioning, activity, prayer)
  • Response/ Sending Out (for example, thinking about how we can live out this message / value, setting of a challenge for the day)

Our Worship

Collective Worship is shaped by our 6 school values:

  • Compassion
  • Respect
  • Integrity
  • Forgiveness
  • Responsibility
  • Perseverance

as well as church festivals. It is progressive across the term, has a variety of Christian based stories as well as other world views and real-life stories to support these. All staff are involved in the delivery of our worship. Every term we have a worship led by Rev Suzanne Grindrod and Katherine Bloomer (Draycot Benefice Lay Minister) who link their Christian worship to our termly value or festival. Our Vision Team (created from KS2 classes) play a key role in leading worship and prayer across our school.

  • Monday – ‘Whole School Worship’ which introduces and begins to explore that week’s focus based on our value of the term.
  • Tuesday – ‘Key Stage Worship’ to explore this further at an age-appropriate level.
  • Wednesday - ‘Praise and Prayer’ where the children enjoy learning and performing a variety of songs and hymns related to our value of the term and linked to our church services.
  • Thursday – ‘Class Worship’, where the theme for the week is explored again at an age-appropriate level and allows for class reflection and discussion around this.
  • Friday – ‘Celebration Worship’ as a whole school, where we encourage our children to be reflective and celebrate their achievements. Parents are invited to attend this worship.

Window, Mirror, Door approach to our worship

At Sutton Benger, worship follows the Mirror, Window, Door approach, helping pupils reflect, explore, and respond.

Window moments invite us to look beyond ourselves. It gives us opportunities to wonder about life's WOWS (things that are amazing) and life's OWS (things that take us by surprise).

Mirror moments encourage us to think about our own lives, feelings, and experiences, consider life's big questions and explore both our own insights and those of others

Door moments challenge us to consider how we can put these ideas into action, giving us an opportunity to respond. It encourages us to think about how we can live out our beliefs and values.

Prayer

Our prayers in Collective Worship are taken from the children’s ‘Pause for Thought’ reflection book. Each term, a different class writes prayers linked to our value of the term. This creates a book of children’s prayers, emanating from the school vision and values; these are shared by the children with the whole school community during Collective Worship. This gives children ownership of their spiritual development; thus ensuring that prayer time creates a culture that gives our children time to be still and reflect.

Collective Worship Plan

Collective Worship Plan

Contact Us

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  • 40 Chestnut Road Sutton Benger Wiltshire SN15 4RP

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