Collective Worship

At Cookridge Holy Trinity Primary we have daily acts of Collective Worship, in which pupils, staff, clergy and visitors are actively involved. Our daily Collective Worship is linked to our school ethos and our school’s Christian Values.

A list of our Collective Worship weekly themes is available for the whole school year. These themes link to our school’s core Christian Values and also include some themes which link to our major Christian festivals. In the classroom and weekly school newsletter, each half term’s Christian Value, memory verses of Bible quotations and our ethos statement are displayed.

Special celebrations take place at:

Harvest
Christmas
Easter
Significant times of school year e.g Trinity Day

A variety of types of Collective Worship are reflected in the relatedness between school and the Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Cookridge. Participation in the end of year services, Easter and Christmas services provide opportunities for the children’s experience to be focused outside the more familiar setting of the school premises and enriched by that process.

Aims for Collective Worship

To use Collective Worship for the children in order to meet their expectations and needs.
To enjoy worshipping together.
To stimulate imagination and encourage participation.

By these means to enable the children:

To gain a clear and concise understanding of Christian teaching and practice with reference to the teachings of the Church of England and the Holy Scriptures.
To reflect and be encouraged to perceive the spiritual dimension of being human.
To give thanks to God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
To encourage respect for others and to explore and discover relationships and diversity.

Christian Values

We seek to explore the meanings of Christian values and their significance through weekly acts of worship delivered by our Head teacher, Deputy Head, Holy Trinity Church, Tinshill Free Church and class teachers. These Christian values are taught as part of our curriculum and embedded in our school life.

In consultation with our children, parents, Governors and staff we believe that the gifts of respect, service, perseverance, hope, compassion, truthfulness, thankfulness, friendship, trust, forgiveness, love and courage are the values we want our children to leave our school with. Whilst these gifts are inclusive of human values, we try to anchor them into the Christian faith by relating them to the Bible through stories and readings.

We teach our Christian Values in a two year rolling cycle.

Our Christian Values this year (Year A):

Term 1: Respect
Term 2: Service
Term 3: Perseverance
Term 4: Hope
Term 5: Compassion
Term 6: Truthfulness

Our Christian Values this year (Year B):

Term 1: Thankfulness
Term 2: Friendship
Term 3: Trust
Term 4: Forgiveness
Term 5: Peace
Term 6: Courage

Home School Values

Linking to each half term’s current Christian Value, we include a ‘Home School Values’ sheet in our weekly newsletter. These enable conversations related to what the children are learning in school and provide opportunities for talking, reading together, sharing words of wisdom, fascinating facts, a family focus, a home school challenge and to share in an inspirational character who has demonstrated the value.

Please find our Home School Values sheets attached below: