IQ3 How is daily collective worship1 enabling pupils and adults to flourish spiritually?

Everyday Meditation for Schools

The word “meditate” simply means to think deeply about something and is a practice that has been used by people of many faiths and beliefs since the earliest of times.

Children today are exposed to adult pressures… at very early ages. Meditation simply and immediately helps them to cope and survive these forces. Teachers notice the benefits very quickly in classes and schools where meditation becomes part of the regular experience of the children.

Meditation – Outreach of The World Community for Christian Meditation

This is a complete resource that enables you to introduce a time of meditation into the daily routine of your classroom.

Spiritual Encounters – Bible based meditation teacher’s pack

Rainbow Small Group Worship

Collective worship in a classroom has a different feel from worship in the hall.  The more intimate nature of the worship can make everyone feel more readily included. It is also the perfect setting to look at some of life’s big issues in a prayerful and reflective manner. This resource supports small group worship through the six themes of:

Relationships

Outward looking

Yourself

Grateful

Be Still

Valued

Classroom Rainbow Worship Complete

Please see the document below for useful website to help plan you collective worship. You should find these resources useful for both whole school and class worship. The document has been hyperlinked to take you to the relevant website. Click to on document below to open

Websites for Collective Worship & Christian Values

Rainbow Worships: Supporting well-being through collective worship and spiritual development.

A set of 10 worship plans, with supporting PowerPoint presentations, to assist worship leaders to actively engage children in worship. The Rainbow Worship resource provides a starting point to deliver worships that begin to respond to feelings that children may have experienced during the lockdown measures.

Rainbow Worship

Worship Together – Rend Co. Kids

If you are looking for worship songs to use with your children then click here to be taken to ‘Rend Co. Kids’ – you will find numerous worship songs to use  and they are free.

Sing out the Values

If you are looking for songs that are value based please click here.

Thy Kingdom Come- New

Promoting  a prayer culture in your schools and encouraging families to pray together. Click here to be taken to the resource.

Picture News. We are a team of teachers past and present led by Katie and Rob Harrison. We understand the time constraints of teachers and recognise that children can relate well to the world around them.

We aim to make lives easier by providing an instant resource for schools to use in a variety of ways, we are very passionate about making resources that can make a difference to the children in the schools we work with.

Click on the icon below to be taken to their website.

Scripture Union have written some collective worship resources for primary and secondary schools entitled ‘Thy Kingdom Come.’ Click on the icon below to be taken to their website and the resource.

The Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich have worship resources that you might find useful. Please click on the link below to be taken to their website and the resource.

The Diocese of Salisbury have worship resources called ‘Reflection Dairies’. Click on the link below to be taken to their website and the resource.

The Diocese of Derby have worship resources developed by Alison Brown called ‘Seeing Anew.’ Click on the link below to be taken to their website and the resource.

Christian values 4 schools is an excellent website for Christian values that have been linked to scripture and biblical story. This website was created by the National Society. Click on link below:

Imaginor ‘Roots and Fruits’ is an excellent resource for teaching Christian values. Click on link below:

 Treasured Tales

Below are 5 downloadable collective worships for Harvest, Christmas and Easter. Each one has a beautifully designed character that can be used to bring the worship alive.

 Harvest

Squeak,   Harvest Care,   Harvest Share,   Harvest Creation,   Harvest Thanks

 Christmas

Christmas Innkeeper  Christmas Joseph  Christmas Mary  Christmas Shepherds
Christmas Wisemen   Barney Sheep

 Easter

Easter Palm Sunday    Easter Anointing    Easter Last Supper    Easter The Arrest   Easter The Resurrection  Mark 

 

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