Resources to Support Collective Worship

An Angel Just lIke Me

These Advent resources have kindly been shared by the Dioceses of Portsmouth and Winchester. In addition to supporting collective worship and RE, these resources also begin to address some of the issues stated in the ‘From Lament to Action’ report.

This mini project for Christmas has been developed from a now out-of-print but timely and significant book by well-known author Mary Hoffman ‘An angel just like me’. Attached is a project booklet with pages of activities, ideas and links to RE curricula, and an accompanying Worship PowerPoint presentation that links to Mary Hoffman reading the book which you can access at https://youtu.be/bgD2VkNDV0s

An Angel Just Like Me – Diocesan Christmas Project
An Angel Just Like Me Accompanying PowerPoint

Books

Cooling, M: Assemblies for Primary Schools Autumn Term.
Cooling, M: More Assemblies for Primary Schools Spring Term.
Cooling, M: More Assemblies for Primary Schools Summer Term.
Cooling, M. & Walker, D: Cracking Assemblies
Cooling, M: Wisdom of Worship
Lings, H: Ready-to-read assemblies for collective worship
Sayers, S: Living Stones Year A: Rocks
Sayers, S: Living Stones Year B: Rocks

School collective worship calendar 2021 – 22 Autumn Term
School collective worship calendar 2020-21 Spring Term
School collective worship calendar 2020 – 2021 Autumn Term

Useful Websites

A reflection on Henry Moore’s Mother and Child from the St Paul’s Schools & Family Learning Team.
www.canterburydiocese.org/childrenandyoungpeople/our-schools/collective-worship/collective-worship-at-home.php
A resource from Canterbury diocese that supports children in leading worship in their homes, accompanied by a book of Bible stories.
www.canterburydiocese.org/childrenandyoungpeople/our-schools/rebuilding-community/
Rebuilding a School Community: An excellent resource both to use at leadership level but also for collective worship both in the home and at school.
www.cofesuffolk.org/ Flippin’ Praise
Heartsmart Family
www.isingpop.org/ iSingPOP is a primary school music project that brings together school, church and community. A range of songs to support worship have been found here.
www.imaginor.co.uk/jack-box-worship/ Jack in the box worship
www.imaginor.co.uk/journey-into-pentecost-2/ Journey into Pentecost
www.imaginor.co.uk/roots-fruits/ Roots and Fruits
The Church of England’s #faithathome has worship materials created and led by children, young people and staff from schools across the Church of England network.
stapleford-centre.org resources
Wintershall Education has resources for use in school and at home.
worshipworkshop.org.uk

Exemplars to support delivering collective worship in the classroom

Approaches to class worship.
Collective worship exemplar for how to structure class worship.
Collective worship exemplar based on ‘take home’ questions.
Collective worship exemplar for how to lead a prayer circle.
Collective worship exemplar based on prayer reflection areas.
Appendix 1 prayer reflection areas.
https://www.isingpop.org/classroom-worship
A resource to support collective worship in the classroom.