Worship
Collective worship is an important part of each day. It’s a time when we gather together to consider a variety of themes and stories – moral, social, multi-cultural, biblical – and a time for reflection and quiet, an opportunity to celebrate together and share our thoughts and ideas with one another. Worship promotes values which will everyone to lead happy and healthy lives. These values complement and reinforce all faiths; they promote positive relationships, for example.
We have a variety of different acts of collective worship during the week, including Tuesday Views Day (when we explore spiritual, moral, social and cultural questions, equality and diversity, and British values such as respect and tolerance) and Thoughts on Thursday (which features a Bible story reflecting the Christian value we’re considering at the time).
Read our policy on collective worship.
Spirituality
St James’ CE Primary’s vision is to be a happy and healthy place to achieve and believe. Developing spirituality can play a key role in achieving this for our pupils and our staff, enabling them to flourish.
Spirituality is not something we can see; it’s something we might feel inside ourselves. It’s about awe and wonder, asking questions, inspiration and being aware of something ‘bigger’ outside of ourselves.
When talking to children about spirituality, we refer two things: a sense of connection and a sense of awe and wonder, and different (related) contexts for spirituality:
- self (emotional intelligence and self-respect)
- others (love, friendship and connection with others)
- physical world (appreciation or even joy with the world around us)
- creative world (similarly, feeling moved in some way by)
- a greater force (which might be a sense of faith for some)