At Deanery collective worship is a highly valued part of the school day as it is the time when we gather together to affirm what is important to us, to our school and to our world. We take care to plan our collective worship so that it is inclusive, invitational, and inspiring. Collective worship in our school influences the way that we live together as a community and before God.
Read our collective worship policy found in the policies section of our website under parents’ information.
The topics covered follow the Christian calendar as well as linking to our school values to explore the big questions of life and respond to national and international events.

Church Schools use a four part model of worship in their collective worship, with liturgical greetings and the format “Gathering, Engaging, Responding, Sending”

Collective Worship is an important part of the school day, taking time to come together and reflect as a whole school community.  

We are passionate about delivering thoughtful, thought provoking and inspiring Collective Worship. We have daily collective worship. Each half term we have a value that forms the theme for the worship led by Mrs McIntosh and the staff team.

Song and singing is incredibly powerful and an integral part of worship. We have selected a core set of hymns, which link to our value for the half term and are sung in collective worship.

Collective worship provides opportunities for pupils to reflect on spiritual and moral issues. It is inclusive, invitational, and inspirational, enabling pupils and adults time to ponder important questions and issues. Our worship sessions begin with lighting a candle. If worship is collectively in the hall, then each class takes their class candle, lights this and places it on the prayer table at the front of the hall. (Don't worry the candles are battery operated!)

As a school, we have created big questions for each year group, linked to our value for the half term. The questions have been carefully planned to be progressive and develop deeper thinking as pupils begin to flourish through school.

Our Collective Worship Policy can be found below.

Each year group is responsible for leading a service in our local church for important feast/celebration days e.g Harvest, Remembrance, Christmas, Mother’s Day, Lent, Easter

Weekly class prayer allows pupils to respond to themes from collective worship in their own classes.  Class assemblies use Picture News to contemplate current affairs in relation to spirituality, as well as celebrating pupils’ attitudes and achievements out of school.

We are a Deanery school serving many parishes in the Deanery of Aston and Sutton Coldfield.  Since 1st December 2019 the Revd Ann Richardson has been the area Dean and we love welcoming her into school as part of our community. 
We invite clergy from many local Churches in to support our worship as well as other Christian organisations such as KidsUK and our school parent prayer group.

In acts of Collective Worship in our school it is recognised that in our school community, some members will come from families with a commitment to the Christian faith, others from families with a commitment to another faith and yet others will have no particular commitment to any tradition. Therefore the content and language of collective worship allows for different levels of response. It invites rather than coerces.

Parents have the right to withdraw their child from collective worship.  If a parent wishes to consider this option, Mrs McIntosh should be approached.