Collective Worship

Community-Led Worship

Across the academic year our Church priest Canon Paula York leads worship on a Wednesday. Sometimes this is at All Saints and All Hallows church on other occasions it is in school worship.

Once the worship time has been delivered by Canon Paula she then stays and works within a classroom supporting with an RE lesson. There is a rota of this across the school so that every class has a session with her. This enables Canon Paula to act as a resource when the class is covering an Understanding Christianity theme and for her to see the other faiths that we teach.

We are also fortunate to have the Christian Assembly Team who every month come to lead worship . They deliver worship based around a series of parables /Bible stories. Areas covered this year are :

• Wise and Foolish Builders
• Parable of Talents
• The good Samaritan
• A modern parable of Advent
• The great Feast
• The Lost Coin
• Good Friday and the Good Shepherd
• The Pharisee and the tax collector
• The Persistent widow wanting justice
• The Prodigal son
• The faithful servant

The children love having guests in our collective worship and respond beautifully to different styles of worship. They are quick to volunteer and participate.

We go to All Saints and All Hallows for our own services such as Harvest, Christingle, Nativity , Candlemass , Easter and a whole school production in the summer. The children are very used to a variety of leaders and members of the community including Foundation Governors leading worship at the church.

It is important that the children can be familiar with the church environment and that they see this as an extension of our school building! Overall we have many opportunities for community-led worship which we believe is an asset to our school.