Collective Worship

Collective Worship
Collective Worship
 

Our collective worship policy strengthens and supports the Christian identity of our school, reaffirms our values and celebrates the contribution that each child makes to our community. Worship will reflect the variety of traditions found in the Church of England, and will recognise and follow the Christian liturgical year. The daily Christian act of worship is central to our ethos and is supported by all staff and members of the governing body.

 

“To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God and to devote the will to the purpose of God”. William Temple (1881-1894)

 

Aims

Our school worship is central to the life of the school and contributes to the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of our pupils, as appropriate to their ages and aptitudes.

  • to explore a relationship with God in Jesus Christ.
  • to reflect on values that are of a broadly Anglican Christian tradition, whilst recognising the validity and importance of other Christian denominations, religions and belief systems
  • to consider spiritual and moral issues and, through reflection, raise awareness of the ultimate questions of life relating to matters of faith.
  • to reflect on their own beliefs.
  • to deepen and widen the experience of those of ‘faith’ and encourage those of ‘little or no formal faith’ so that they begin to feel for themselves something of what it means to worship.
  • to develop an enquiring mind and express and explore their own views openly and honestly through reflection and wondering questions.
  • to develop a community spirit, a common ethos and shared values.
  • to foster an awareness of the world around them and a sense of their place within it
  • to develop a respect for and an understanding of different beliefs.
  • to develop a sense of sharing and belonging through different groups of children coming together.
  • To have opportunities to live out and explore Biblical teachings.