Collective worship

How?

Collective worship can still happen in schools, even with home learning. If you haven't been in touch with your local schools do send them an email or give them a call to encourage them. There are several ways schools can run collective worship depending on how they are providing home learning. But offering collective worship is a combination of what they need and what you can offer.
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  • If you have several schools in your area, it may be that a pre-recorded video that is sent out (or a link to it) is the most realistic and schools can add it to their home learning platform and show key worker children in school.
  • If you have fewer schools then you may be able to offer a more tailored offering. This might still be pre-recorded or it may be live during an online class.
  • ​It may be offering this resource for them to lead collective worship without having to have planned it themselves. Do offer encouragement and support for this. You may add a short video of you leading a part of it.

Easter Series

Five collective worship sessions are being written for you to use and adapt as you wish. Depending on how often you are leading collective worship, you may offer one a week or choose the one that most connects with your area.
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  1. Triumphal Entry: Humility of Jesus (Luke 19-28-40)
  2. The Last Supper and the agony in the garden: Humanity/humility and Hardship/heralding (Luke 22:17-23, 39-46)
  3. Good Friday: Hopelessness (Matthew 27:32-56)
  4. Holy Saturday: Waiting and wondering (Luke 24:1-12)
  5. Easter Sunday: Hope and happiness (Matthew 28:1-10)
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Click here to download the complete resource.

DBE 'Walking the Way' service

​The DBE will host on You-tube a Diocesan Schools “Walking the Way of the Cross Service” online on Wednesday 31st March. Do share this with your local church and non-church schools.

You may also want to share it with families from your church who aren't attending your parish school.

Click here for the Youtube channel.

Joining the dots

Children exist beyond school, so this resource has been written to tie in with the stations of the cross and other resources, each adding something different. It is a fantastic opportunity to invite families and children into exploring more for themselves. A few ways you could do this are:
  • Run the community trail and mention it in your collective worship/ask if it go into the newsletter. Perhaps the school would like to host one of the stations?
  • Share the 'At home' resource either by inviting them to participate through a group you are running or by sharing the link. It shares the same story but with the focus of the emotions running through it.
  • Have a few questions or a response idea that can be sent with the collective worship for families to explore and think more deeply or in different ways together.

Safeguarding

Children and adults deserve the best care that the Church can provide. Please call 999 if a child or adult is in immediate danger of significant or serious harm. To report any safeguarding concerns or allegations, please contact the Coventry Diocese Safeguarding Team on 024 7652 1345.  Out of office hours, calls to this number will be diverted to our 24-hour helpline.  For all other safeguarding matters, please contact our Diocesan Safeguarding Team.

Contributors

This site and the resources on it have been developed by practitioners from across the diocese of Coventry. We are grateful for their support and encouragement. If you have any comments or suggestions then please use the contact us page to get in touch.