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Collective Worship
Collective Worship at Mill Rythe Infant School will:
- promote a sense of family, community and of belonging and sharing
- promote the articles' contained in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- provide an opportunity to mark special celebrations and achievements
- provide a space for reflection and stillness
At Mill Rythe Infant School there is a daily act of collective worship, which is open to all staff and pupils and is non-denominational. This can be based on groupings of the whole school, year groups or individual classes.
Our acts of collective worship provide an opportunity for us all to feel that we belong, to think of others and of ideas and things outside ourselves. They provide a time to reflect, to respond, to revere and wonder, to recognize and celebrate realities and values which our School and society holds important.
Collective worship is based on the values common to Christianity and other major religions such as love, honesty and trust and is therefore appropriate to pupils and staff, whatever their cultural or religious beliefs. Major festivals from Christianity and other faiths are celebrated, as are personal and group achievements and birthdays.
We aim to make collective worship a part of our educational provision and as such it will re-affirm, interpret and put into practice the values of the school.
Parents have the right to ask for their child to be withdrawn from assemblies and are informed of this right in the school prospectus.
This policy will be reviewed annually.
