WELCOME TO COLLECTIVE WORSHIP

Vision

Within a nurturing environment, we provide a caring and welcoming school that values the achievements of all children so that we fulfil our belief that:

EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS

Staff create an enthusiasm for learning, set high standards and expectations, and enable children to master the skills and attributes needed for their next phase of education and into adult life,

We do this knowing that:

I can do everything through Him who gives me strengths

Philippians 4:13

Core Values

LOVE - HUMANITY - ASPIRATION

Our Collective Worship cycle follows the values in the Roots and Fruits documentation, and as such, we discuss, celebrate, and try to embed all the Christian Values it suggests.

However, we realised that this was a lot for the children to remember or be effective at demonstrating.  So in 2025 we took a collective decision to try and group these 18 values (which can be found below) into three core values.  We felt that three values allowed us to better focus our teaching and learning within Collective Worship, and better enable the children to understand both the values and how each value has different aspects.

LOVE

Friendship

Forgiveness

Respect

Compassion

Thankfulness 

Trust

HUMANITY

Peace

Dignity

Generosity

Service

Community

Justice

ASPIRATION

Wisdom

Courage

Perseverence

Joy

Truthfulness

Hope

Our Values for 2025 - 2026 (Year 1)

Friendship

Peace

Wisdom

Forgiveness

Dignity

Courage

Our Values for 2026 - 2027 (Year 2)

Respect

Generosity

Perseverence

Compassion

Service

Joy

Our values for 2027 - 2028 (Year 3)

Thankfulness

Community

Truthfulness

Trust

Justice

Hope

OUR CHURCH SERVICES

Each year we hold four services at St Peter and St Paul's church.

Harvest:  Our first service of the year celebrates the harvest and is our first opportunity to come together in church.  It is always an uplifting time as we celebrate our first term in school, and we give thanks for the gifts donated by the school community.

The donations of food are then packaged up (often by wonderful parent volunteers) and then distributed to the local sheltered housing across from the school.

The gift boxes are not only a sharing of our donations, but a way of saying thank you for being our neighbours and sorry if we make too much noise on Sports Day!

Christmas:  We have our second service, Christingle, after school, and make this a real family affair.  Children are invited, and bring along their parents to join in our pre-Christmas celebration.  Families all sit together and bring a togetherness that normal school services don't allow.

This service is full of joy and carols, and finishes with the children lining the aisles with lighted (gulp!) Christingle candles, whilst singing Away In A Manger.  This is always well-attended and a great way to stir festive spirit.

Easter:  Our penultimate service brings us together just before the Easter holiday to celebrate the resurrection of Christ and the hope that brings to the world.  We use this as a time of reflection and a time to look forward to the coming term.

Year 6 Leavers:  This final service is always a tear-jerker.  It is a public farewell to our Year 6 cohort and is a time of celebrating all they have brought to school, all of their achievement,s and an opportunity for the other year groups to share the impact that the Y6s have made on them.

There is always an unofficial competition to see who starts crying first.  It's often the teachers, but never publicly admitted!

All of our services are led by Mr Cocking and Rev Andy Walker.  Together, they share their thoughts, ideas, a nd collective wisdom to help guide us for the future.