Termly Values
2025/2026
We have had a little bit of a change with our Termly Values for the coming years- they are still the same values, but they will be focused on in a different order throughout the 2-years as we have now linked them to our Learning Powers. The Ethos Group worked together to link the Learning Powers to our Termly Values and the reasons they chose what they did are outlined below.
Autumn 2025 
Compassion and Trust link to Betty the Butterfly who continuously improves. If you love something, you will work hard to continuously improve it. Because we think of compassion as loving, to love someone means that you trust them and so we linked compassion and trust together. We also chose the colour red for this term.
Spring 2026 
Our Spring term focus will be on Humility and Service as these link well with Harriet the Hermit Crab who teaches us to be creative. If you want to be creative then you also need to be humble, recognising when you need help from others to complete your ideas and knowing that others might be better at some things that you. You can also serve other people with your creative ideas when you need help from others to complete your ideas and knowing that others might be better at some things that you. You can also serve other people with your creative ideas. Being creative is represented by the colour orange so that will be the colour for this term.
Summer 2026 
We chose Justice, Peace and Perseverence as our summer term values. We didn't want to separate these three values as they link together so well and we felt that they link brillianty with Albert the Armadillo who teaches us to be resilient. Yellow is the colour of hope and resilient people are always hopeful so the colour for this term is yellow.
Autumn 2026 
This terms focus came out of the colour chosen: green. Green is a calm colour; Edgar the Elephant teaches us that we need to concentrate and to do that we need to be calm. We felt that green links really well with the value of Creation as we are fortunate to live in a green and furtile area. Whilst out in nature, we noticed that we feel calmer and therefore can concentrate better. We also linked being thankful to this term as we recognise the importance of being thankful for this wonderful world that we live in.
Spring 2027 
This term is all about Friendship and Koinonia (community) as they link very clearly with Annie and Arnold the Ants who teach us to be co-operative. The focus is all about teamwork and loyalty, which are represented by the colour blue.
Summer 2027 
Our final term in our 2-year cycle is all about Reverence and Forgiveness. We chose these because they can be represented by the colour purple, which is often thought of as a royal colour so links very well with reverence: many people revere the God they believe in or royalty. Purple also represents mystery and if you want to solve a mystery, you need to be curious, like Charlie the Chimp. Being curious means we might sometimes frustrate people by asking too many questions, and we are bound to make mistakes along the way as we try to solve these mysteries, so we also felt that forgiveness linked well with this term.
This term, the Christian values are Creation and Reverence
The memory verse is:
Memory Verse: Revelation 4:11 “Our Lord and God, you deserve to receive glory, honour and power because you created everything.”
The classes begin each term by discussing these values and completing some work linked to each for their class reflective corners. This term, we have linked the work done by the children to our Spiritual Development aides of 'Windows, Mirrors, Doors'. We looked at what makes us go OW or WOW in the world, how it makes us feel or what it means to each of us and finally what action we are going to take as a result of this.
Some songs we have been singing are:
Thanks and Praise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES0S-BkMnXM
Makanaka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9KdHkjHVI
Creator God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM4IVZuljEI
Indescribable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLMVqNwypjA
TRUST AND FORGIVENESS PRAYERS
Each term, the classes also write prayers that link to the termly values and things that are in the news at that moment. These prayers are placed in prayer pockets or on the Reflective Corner displays and are chosen from for end of the day prayers. Here are some examples of the prayers the children have written:
Dear God,
Thank you for people we trust and if we sin, we pray that people will forgive us.
In your name we praye these things,
Amen
Dear God,
Thank you for everything we have today!
Please help us to know who to trust.
Please let people forgive what they have done in the past.
Please be kind to people around us.
Amen
Dear God,
Please make sure we can all count on someone to help us when we fail but make sure we always carry on, even when times are tough.
I hope we all know who to trust and who will help us during these tough times.
Thank you Lord
Amen
Below are the links to some of the songs we will possibly be singing this term in Collective Worships. They all link to our termly values in some way:
The Lord's Prayer (It's Yours) by Matt Maher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2uPU-NY-sc
Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) by Chris Tomlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbe7OruLk8I
Count on Me by Bruno Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R533DDds3RY
Lean on Me by Bill Withers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iouTzcAiARk
Stand Firm by Amos and Margaret Raber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48QHxU9iCs
The Lord's My Shepherd by Stuart Townend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eIQQayhpak
JUSTICE, PEACE AND PERSEVERANCE PRAYERS
AUTUMN 2024
Dear God,
Please help us to keep going.
Please help us to persevere with thing swe find hard and never giving up.
In your name we pray these things.
Amen
God,
Let us have harmony and rest and sleep.
It's the end of the day, it's time to chill.
Amen
Dear Lord,
Please let our world be the best that it can be and don't let anyone change themselves because they are perfect the way they are.
Let peace roam around the world for everyone and forever.
Lete everyone be different but everyone get treated the same.
Amen
Humility and Service Prayers
Summer 2024
Dear God,
Thank you for friends and family
And thank you for doctors and nurses and people who show humility and service
And love your neighbours as yourself.
In your name we pray these things
Amen
Dear Lord,
Thank you for helping us help charities.
Thank you for people being humble.
Please help us be humble.
Amen
Thankfulness and Compassion prayers
Spring 2024
Dear Lord,
You had compassion for your people and sent Jesus as a sacrifice for all the things we do wrong. Thank you for forgiving us when we say sorry for our mistakes.
Thank you for sending you message down in the Holy Trinity as God teh Fatehr, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
How Jesus, when he left and ascended into heaven, showed compassion and sent the Holy Spirit to help us.
Amen.
Heavenly Father, I thank you for today. Thank you for forgiving me my sins. Help me to always do what is right. help me to be nice to others and be a good kid. Amen.
Dear God,
Thank you for all the good things happening to people. But we pray you'll help those in need too. The people in Turkey and Syria suffereing from earthquakes and those with sickness or illness around the world. I hope you help Iceland with volcanoes and keep them safe. Thank you for keeping us safe and in your Name we pray these things.
Amen
Dear God,
Thank you for all you do. Thank you for love. You are the best. Amen.
Dear Lord,
We thank you for all our friends and the lovely teamwork in our class. Help us to show kindness and respect to everyone every day. Help us to remember that we are all part of a special team.
Amen
