Click on the sections below to learn more about Collective Worship at our school:
Overview of our Prayer and Liturgy Provision
Students engage deeply with prayer and liturgy through full active and conscious participation in assemblies twice a week. One assembly per week has an extended prayer focus and is known as the House Prayer Assembly. These are collective acts of worship using the Gather, Listen, Respond, Go Forth format. They are both student and staff led. Students work collaboratively, with both peers and teachers, to prepare creative and well-constructed collective acts of worship, as each PDT group class is responsible for planning and delivering an assembly at least once in the academic year. They are also asked to evaluate their experience of planning liturgical experiences to ensure that they reflect on creative approaches and to enable the school to bring in training and formation in this area as required.
The themes of assemblies are based on the Church’s Liturgical calendar, every assembly begins with a range of liturgical music, ranging from contemporary worship songs to more traditional hymns.
When students are not in assembly, they share a collective act of worship, led by the PDT group in their rooms. These also follow the Gather, Listen, Respond, Go Forth format.
Each week a reflection will be provided for both staff and students. Staff will have an opportunity to reflect together each Friday morning in the chapel. Students will be provprovided a reflection prepared by the GIFT team with support from the prayer and liturgy coordinator.
Each year group will be provided the opportunity for a whole year celebration of Mass once in each academic year:
• Y7 Welcome Mass
• St Joseph’s Day Mass
• Y8 and 10 Christmas Mass
• Y9 Lent/Easter Mass
• Y11 Leavers’ Mass
Alongside this there will be a termly Mass offered that is open to all staff and students.
For staff at school, there will be an opportunity to celebrate mass at the end of the Christmas term as well as the end of the summer term.
Throughout the year, there are several opportunities for the students to plan and participate in a range of liturgies to mark seasons, feasts and festivals in the Church’s liturgical calendar. These make use of our outdoor Stations of the Cross, our Prayer Garden, the meadow and indeed the whole school.
