Collective Worship at Baldwins Gate
Our programme for Collective Worship:
Year A (2021/22)
Autumn Term 1: Generosity and harvest
Autumn Term 2: Compassion and Christmas
Spring Term 1: Courage and Candlemas
Spring Term 2: Forgiveness, Lent and Easter
Summer Term 1: Friendship and Pentecost
Summer Term 2: Respect and The Trinity
Year B (2022/23)
Autumn Term 1: Thankfulness and Harvest
Autumn Term 2: Trust and Advent
Spring Term 1: Perseverance and Epiphany
Spring Term 2: Justice, Lent and Easter
Summer Term 1: Service and Pentecost
Summer Term 2: Truthfulness and The Trinity
Year A (2021/22)
Autumn Term 1: Generosity and harvest
Autumn Term 2: Compassion and Christmas
Spring Term 1: Courage and Candlemas
Spring Term 2: Forgiveness, Lent and Easter
Summer Term 1: Friendship and Pentecost
Summer Term 2: Respect and The Trinity
Year B (2022/23)
Autumn Term 1: Thankfulness and Harvest
Autumn Term 2: Trust and Advent
Spring Term 1: Perseverance and Epiphany
Spring Term 2: Justice, Lent and Easter
Summer Term 1: Service and Pentecost
Summer Term 2: Truthfulness and The Trinity
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Remembering Queen Elizabeth II
After hearing of the sad passing of the Queen, across the school various lessons took place considering her significance and her role in history. For part of this, the children, staff and representation from the Parish Council visited Jubilee Gardens in 2 groups to lay flowers and hold a minutes silence. |
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Our Prayer Space
This is a focal area in our school that all pupils can access. It is an area where they can quietly reflect, explore life's questions, their own spirituality and faith in a safe environment. Our prayer space also has a prayer bowl where the children can write down what they would like to pray for. Each week in collective worship the Reverend Clemas will take these prayer ideas from the bowl and include them in his prayer. Throughout the year the prayer space may also reflect current local or world events and the themes of our collective worship.
Our Prayers for UkraineMany of our pupils have been using our prayer space to pray for Ukraine and all those affected by the conflict.
We have made our own prayer tree to help the children share their prayers and thoughts. Reverend Clemas has been including the children's prayers in our Worship. One of our Year 5 pupils has started a 'Support Box' Appeal for the people who have fled Ukraine. Our pupil has created her own powerpoint to inform our school community of her work and to ask for help and support. |
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Our Peace themed Prayer Space
Our Prayer Corner - Thankfulness focus
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Collective Worship
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During the very difficult 'Covid' times of lockdowns and 'bubbles', collective worship at Baldwins Gate continued to be a high priority and we sought new and innovative ways to bring our school community together. This included videos shared with our families and the children at home during lockdown, live streamed Worship across our class bubbles when we returned to school and even collective worship outside when the weather allowed (the neighbours even joined in with our hymns!).
Our current collective worship is through live streams across our classes. The pupils really enjoy how this brings them all together. Our current theme is 'Peace'. We have begun by focusing on Remembrance; we have explored this theme through images, song, music, poems and art. All the children have painted a 'Rock for Remembrance' and these have been placed around the school. The whole school came together outside for a minutes silence on 11th November. |
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Our theme of 'Thankfulness' allowed pupils to reflect on what they are thankful for and to think of others who are less fortunate. Through our links with the Alice Charity, the children and families made donations of food and other necessities as we celebrated Harvest.
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Class Worship
Class worship enables pupils to reflect and respond on our whole school collective worship.
Peace
Across the school pupils have been responding to and reflecting on Remembrance and what it means to them and the wider community, both in the past and in the present day. Reflections and responses have taken place in the shape of poems, art and personal thoughts.
Peace
Across the school pupils have been responding to and reflecting on Remembrance and what it means to them and the wider community, both in the past and in the present day. Reflections and responses have taken place in the shape of poems, art and personal thoughts.
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Thankfulness In Key Stage One the children have been writing prayers about what they want to thank God for. In Key Stage Two the children have been reflecting on the lack of equality in the world, the differences in their childhood and the childhood of children living in poverty. As well as thinking about what it would be like to be homeless. |
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Children Leading Worship
Class 4's assembly focusing on Courage
Class 4 led our collective worship. The children prepared their own assembly focusing on how having courage changes the world. They talked about famous people, past and present, who had the courage to stand up for what they believed.
Class 4 led our collective worship. The children prepared their own assembly focusing on how having courage changes the world. They talked about famous people, past and present, who had the courage to stand up for what they believed.
