Collective Worship 2024-25

We will be continuing to focus on our key values. We start each school day by coming together as a school community for an act of Worship, linked to the understanding of the key value for the half term, and always including an opportunity for children to reflect on their own thoughts and feelings. 

We are very grateful for the regular input of local clergy and ministers and lay members of various denominations for their contributions to our worship in school and at our church services. 

We also visit the local church for a church service each term for key services such as Harvest Festival, Christmas and Easter, as well as the end of the school year.

The values for this year are as follows:-

Autumn Term 2024

For the first half term, we will focus on the values of generosity and friendship, before exploring the idea of Christian service and thinking about how we can contribute as individuals and as a community. 

We will start by considering how true friendship enables each person to grow and ensures that the unique individuality of each person is recognised. We will think about being able to share each others joys and sorrows. We will consider what it means to be a good friend, and this will also link to our Anti-bullying week focus early on in the term. We will then move on to consider the joy of being generous, unconditional generosity and giving generously to those in need, loving others as we love ourselves.  

'A friend loves at all times.' Proverbs 17:17 

'Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.' 2 Corinthians 9:7  

'Encourage one another and build each other up.' 1 Thessalonians 5:11 

‘I get by with a little help from my friends.’  John Lennon and Paul McCartney 

‘Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.’ Anon  

We continue to be very grateful for our local clergy and ministers who lead our worship each Wednesday. Rev Nick Moir, vicar of Teversham Parish Church, Sharon Byrne, curate of Teversham Parish Church, Matt Lillicrap, minister of Hope Church, and Danny Driver, vicar of Christ the Redeemer, will all continue to lead our Wednesday worship, including guiding us in asking and seeking to answer our own “big questions” about God and the World. 

We love because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19