St Barnabas

St Barnabas' CE Primary School and Nursery

Serve with Hope and Encouragement to Learn and Love
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

Collective Worship

We believe that Collective Worship, the time we assemble together every day, both supports and strengthens our school vision.  Our Collective Worship also helps us to think about the decisions we make and actions we take.  

 Serve with Hope and Encouragement to Learn and Love 
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” 

CORE VALUES - SERVICE | HOPE | ENCOURAGEMENT | LEARN | LOVE 

We aim for our Collective Worship to be: 
- inclusive, invitational and inspirational
- offer the opportunity, without compulsion, to all pupils and adults to grow spiritually through experiences of prayer, stillness, worship and reflection
- offer opportunities to worship in different ways using music, silence, story, prayer, reflection
- help pupils and adults to appreciate the relevance of faith in today’s world

In keeping with the Recovery Curriculum (Professor Barry Carpenter) Collective Worship will take into account the following losses:
routine, structure, friendship, opportunity and freedom.

We recently wrote a new school prayer to support our school vision.  We are proud that this prayer was written during partial school closure (covid-19) which shows the strength of our school community:

Dear God

Help us to serve with hope in our community.
Thank you for encouraging us in our learning.
May we support others,
And show love and compassion in all that we do.

Amen