Collective Worship
St Nicholas Priory CE VA Primary School defines collective worship as a time to remember who we are and our place in the world in a Christian context both individually and together as a community. We believe it is important to see collective worship as our time to gather as a community in the eyes of God to reflect, explore, respond, and celebrate.
Collective worship is an essential part of the day at Priory enabling time for self reflection and chance to engage in Christian values and self exploration of spirituality through a variety of worship mediums, congregation spaces and school community groupings.
Our school values (Aspiration, Hope, Service, Forgiveness, Trust and Love with Kindness weaved into each value as a thread) provide the basis for the themes of the Collective Worship each half term.
We aim to achieve high quality worship supported by strong Christian principles, within a Christian community.
We aim to do this through-
❖ Engaging in an act of community.
❖ Expressing praise and thanksgiving to God.
❖ Being still and reflecting.
❖ Exploring the big questions of life and responding to national events.
❖ Fostering respect and deepening spiritual awareness.
❖ Reflecting on the character of God and on the teachings of Christ.
❖ Affirming Christian values and attitudes.
❖ Sharing each other’s joys and challenges.
❖ Celebrating special times in the Christian calendar.
❖ Contributing to our children’s spiritual development
❖Introducing our children to the wholly Christian worship of the Church of England
❖ Gaining in knowledge and understandings of the Christian faith
❖ Exploring and sharing the beliefs of others
❖ Contributing to our children’s moral development
❖ Contributing to the holistic development of our children
❖ Celebrating the life of the school and the children in the presence of God
❖ Celebrating through the medium of song and music
❖ Looking out to the wider world
❖ Encouraging adults and children to flourish spiritually
Collective worship takes many forms across the school. Throughout the week children will gather in classes, year groups and phases to worship. Worship will be given in the form of phase worship, Minster led worship Via weekly Youtube Minster staff, Bible story based worship, Singing worship and Celebration worship.
At St Nicholas Priory we strive for our children to become positive, happy members of society. Our curriculum and variety of activities enhance the ethos behind the Prevent Strategy and reinforcing British values:
Our school is culturally diverse and therefore we place a great emphasis on promoting diversity and tolerance of, through a well planned assembly programme and the RE curriculum. Our PATHS curriculum reinforce the need for tolerance. Although Christianity is the core belief of the school, other faiths and religions are taught to the children.
School Partnerships: Sheringham Teaching School, GY7 cluster of schools.
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