Collective Worship
Collective worship is often referred to as the beating heart of a church school as it offers a wonderful opportunity for all members of the community to meet together, explore issues together, think through questions together, and respond to others and, for some, to God. At Nailsworth C of E Primary School, this is no different.
We are committed to offering high quality collective worship, recognising and valuing collective worship as central to fostering a sense of community (one of our core values) and to expressing the school’s Christian vision - 'Together we rise, we learn, we love abundantly.'
Collective worship in our school is inclusive, invitational and inspiring and intentionally ensures that Collective Worship enables pupils and adults to flourish spiritually (SIAMS 2023).
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InclusiveWe aim to offer children the opportunity, without compulsion, to discuss and reflect on their own spirituality. InvitationalWe offer everyone the opportunity to engage in collective worship, whilst allowing the freedom for those of other faiths and none to be present with integrity. InspirationalWe aim to ensure that worship is creative and inspires children, through music, liturgy, stories and reflection time. We aim to develop children’s appreciation of the variety of traditions, globally, in the Anglican/Methodist Church |
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Individual Worship Design
At the start of every Worship, we invite the whole community to worship with us through the words:| 'We have gathered in the name of 'God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit, to worship together and to think about ( ). This is the day that the lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.' |
We wholeheartedly endorse this philosophy and support children in understanding their relationships with themselves, each other and the world. Everyday, we join together through Collective Worship to share these Christian values with our children to help them find their place in the world.
We end each worship with a dismissal incorporating our Christian vision and four core values
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Go in peace and with respect We go in peace and with respect Go with compassion as a community We go with compassion as a community Go with perseverance and love We go with perseverance and love Lord, help us to work together to achieve our vision.... Together we rise, we learn, we love, abundantly. |
Worship Rota
We have a clear Worship rota that ensures even coverage of our vision, core values and termly value, as well as collaboration with the local community. Please see an example below:
Celebrating Achievement
Each Friday, children’s achievements are celebrated and parents are encouraged to share in this experience by coming along to a Friday Celebration Assembly.
The celebration assembly recognises all children not just those who achieve academic success. Children are nominated by their teachers and the headteachers awards link to our Christian values. At some point in their time at Nailsworth every child will sit on the sofa and have their success celebrated. It's about children seeing success and this motivates them to model our values. Every child at Nailsworth should have their time to shine and their efforts celebrated by the school community.
If you would like further information about Collecive Worship, please see our Collective Worship Policy
If you have any specific questions around collective worship, please contact our RE and Collective Worship Lead, Lisa Goodfellow.