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Collective Worship

Collective Worship in our school enables every child and adult to flourish and to experience awe, wonder, joy, and celebration. It will help educate for wisdom, knowledge and skills, hope and aspiration, dignity and respect, and developing community and understanding of living well together.

Our school acts of collective worship aim:

•  To give an opportunity, for those who wish, to worship God
•  To help children develop a sense of awe and wonder around them
•  To provide regular time and opportunity for reflection and to enable children to move from what is of immediate but passing concern to the broader and more lasting concerns of life
•  To provide time and opportunity for thanksgiving and to enjoy the unity from sharing friendship, acceptance, joys,  hopes and fears 
•  To develop an awareness of and concern for the needs of others as well as personal needs
•  To provide time to share with others the things we have been doing, our thought and ideas
•  To help children develop shared values 
•  To give children experience of being active members of a caring community
•  To respond in a compassionate  way to experiences of injustice, cruelty, exploitation and greed 

At our school Collective Worship takes place in a number of ways. We meet together as a whole school, in Key Stages and as individual classes.

​Throughout the year, each class in the school also takes responsibility for leading whole school collective worship based on our 'value'. So far this year:
Maple Class have led on ' forgiveness'
Oak Class have led on 'courage'
Beech Class have led on 'peace'
Cedar Class have led on 'truthfulness'

The acts of collective worship in the school are planned so as to give the children a variety of experiences, and enable them to come to the threshold of worship. These experiences may include: the telling of appropriate stories, drama, dance, poetry, music and visiting speakers. 

The children will be given an opportunity to respond to those experiences through silent reflection, spoken prayer or the singing of songs.

Links with our local church

​We have strong links with St Nicholas Church in the village. Our school collective worship often takes place in the church and the wider community joins us for our Harvest, Christmas and Easter services too. Reverend Sharon leads Collective Worship in school regularly.

Values for Life

In our school we have a different 'value' that we focus on each half term on a two year cycle. 
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Our Values in year A are: 
Courage
Peace
Trust and truthfulness
Forgiveness 
Justice
Thankfulness and generosity

​And in year B: 
Compassion
Hope
Respect and Reverence
Perseverance
Responsibility
Service