The Belfry CE VA Primary School

Collective Worship

In our school, collective worship is a key part of our daily life and plays an important role in the school’s spiritual and moral development. Each day, pupils and staff are invited to engage with collective worship in their own way, making it inclusive, and through the week have the opportunity to reflect on the content and how it can impact their lives.

Each week, different staff lead worship and we welcome visitors from different denominations of Christianity in the local community to lead worship, too. We also visit out local church for services at least four times a year - harvest, Christmas, Easter and a summer blessing.

Each half-term we focus on a different Christian Value, following a two-year rolling programme outlined below. The value we are focussing on for that half-term inspires our choices of bible stories for our collective worship. This half-term, we are focussing on generosity.

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Year A	Compassion	Perseverance	Friendship	Respect	Thankfulness	Service
Year B	Compassion	Perseverance	Generosity	Courage	Trust Truthfulness	Forgiveness Justice

At the end of each week, we celebrate children’s achievements within the class setting as well as those who have been nominated for demonstrating the value. We believe that by living out these values our pupils are developing their spirituality and are being guided to become responsible, compassionate and respectful citizens.

Collective Worship is structured around four key elements: Gathering, Engaging, Responding, Sending.

The children are regularly given the opportunity to respond and reflect more deeply on a Worship’s theme, within their classes, and these responses are captured in their Class Reflection Book.

We have had a brilliant time with our visitors in school looking at some of the stories in more detail as well as key points of the Christian calendar. Open the Book, Governor Ruth and the Belfry Values Collective have led some of collective worship sessions this half term. The children (and staff) have all really enjoyed their visits and contributions. Have a look below: