Collective Worship

At our school, we meet together every day for a whole school act of worship.

Mondays are led by Mrs Prenton.

Tuesdays are led by Mrs Fabby or, once a month, by Andy Avery from CSCW (Chester Schools Christian Work), and focus on the termly values: we talk about what they mean, how the memory verse links to these values, what we can learn from them and how they link to our whole school Christian Vision of 'Love, learn and grow together'. We have also linked our termly values to the school's learning powers and now focus on one of these each term alongside the values. Which values and learning powers link together were chosen by the Ethos group and are also linked to a colour of the rainbow to help the children remember these.

Wednesdays are led by Mrs Fabby and we sing songs that are linked to our termly values.

Thursdays are led either by the staff or by the children with each class taking a turn to plan and lead an act of worship once a year. These acts of worship focus on important days, often link to charities and are always linked to our termly values and learning powers. At the end of these acts of worship, any Caught Being Kind certificates are handed out.

Fridays are a chance for the staff to celebrate those children who have stood our during the week for their positive attitude or effort in lessons or around school. These children are given certificates to reward them for their achievements and, where possible, are given based on a child's achievements with regards to the Learning Power for that term. During this act of worship, we also celebrate children who have stood out because of their writing: these children are our writers of the week.

The termly value is taken from the list of Christian Values found on the Christian Values 4 Schools website, and could be one of the following:

Friendship        Forgiveness        Peace        Compassion         Trust         Love       Creation       Hope    Perseverance          Justice        Thankfulness       Reverence         Humility         Service       Fellowship

PENTECOST 2025

Year 3/4 led the Pentecost service in the church for us this year. One class focused on Ascension Day, looking at people who celebrate their birthday in May and linking this to Ascension Day being a time of celebration for the church; they also retold the events of Jesus' life from the Old Testament prophecies about him, through his birth and time here on Earth and up to his death, resurrection and ascension into heaven.

Another class acted out the story of Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit. They linked the idea of the Holy Spirit to a phone needing to be charged to be able to work and a person needing food to feel well and energetic.

The final class looked at the letters that spell our Pentecost and used these to talk about the meaning of Pentecost for Christians and then told the story of an artist from a war torn country and how one day, he saw the sun piercing the darkness and creating a triangle shape in the sky; this reminded him of the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit) and brought him faith and hope which, in his mind, are two of the greatest gifts people can share.

EASTER 2025

Year 5 told the story of Holy Week in a sincere and respectful way, focusing on key events during Holy Week and leading up to the death and resurrection of Jesus. This year, they chose to act out the events of Holy Week, with the whole school joining in with songs familiar to them and enjoyed by the whole school.

HARVEST 2024

Year 1/2 led the harvest service this year, which was held in the church, with donations of food being given to the Chester and Ellesmere Port Food Bank. The whole school learnt a new song for this service called 'Thanksgiving' and according to several different members of staff, 'the children raised the roof with their singing'.

Year 1/2 also learnt a new song (Creator God) that they had listened to and talked about in recent RE lessons that focused on stories of creation. This song was chosen by the team as the children had so enjoyed listening to it in lessons and were eager to learn it. They performed this song as part of the Harvest service for parents and the whole school and the song.

PENTECOST 2024

Year 1/2 led Pentecost for us this year. Mr Murphy's Class talked about Ascension Day, Mrs Calvert/Mrs Allason's Class acted out the story of Pentecost and Mrs Wright's Class taught us some more about Spiritual Development.

We all learnt a lot.

EASTER 2024

Year 5 led the Easter service in the church and taught everyone about the importance of Easter.

HARVEST 2023

Year 3/4 led our harvest service again this year and all food collected was donated to Foodbank Chester. 

EASTER SERVICE 2023

Year 5 led our Easter service in the church. They acted out the story of the events that led to Jesus' death and the whole school joined in with singing some lovely songs.

PENTECOST SERVICE 2023

The Ethos group led the Pentecost service this year.

They taught us about Ascension Day and Pentecost.

They acted out part of the story of Pentecost.

The whole school joined them in church to watch and we sang some songs altogether. 

Choir performed a song for everyone.

They led us in some prayers.

One Reception parent said: "Our son came home and told us all about Pentecost Day and what it means."

HARVEST 2022

On Thursday 20th October, Year 3 and 4 led our Harvest Assembly. It was the first time since Covid that we have been able to invite our parents to one of our special acts of worship.

One class shared a special harvest story with us.

Another told us about how harvest is celebrated in other countries.

  They also told us about why harvest is so important.

Prayers were shared too.    And songs were sung with the whole school.

Some of our Year 5 children said: "I really liked how we got together and sang together and how the parents came."

Another Year 5 children said: "I really liked it when the mice learnt what harvest is all about." 

Thank you to everyone who donated food. It was taken to the Chester Food Bank.