Our Worship Team are a specially selected group of children who hold regular meetings to discuss our vision, values and worship in school.
The team leads collective worship on a regular basis and use the church lectionary as their theme in the Christian year along with themes that are relevant for the children at that time of year. They present a worship for the whole school which is often insightful and interesting for both the staff and pupils!
The Worship Council plays a vital role in the development of worship within our school.
The aims are:
Even if a child is not a Worship Council representative they play an important part in demonstrating daily the Christian values that we are proud of. All children are encouraged to spot others carrying out the school values that show our Christian character and ethos.
Each year our Worship Team visit All Saints Church in Denstone, to join the worship teams from St Augustine’s, Draycott-in-the-Clay and St Peters, Alton for a spiritual ambassador and worship leader training day. Take a look at the things they got up to here.
We had a wonderful day working with our Christian Distinctiveness Advisor. The focus this year was prayer. We considered lots of different ways to pray. We thought about the categories: me, others, please, thank you and sorry. We loved confetti prayers, we took a pinch of confetti and put it into a central place; while we were doing this we thought about who we wanted to pray for and why. One of our favourite prayers was the ‘love heart’ prayer. We put a love heart on our tongue and waited for it to dissolve. While it was dissolving we thought about who we loved, who we found hard to love and people who don’t know that they are loved.
SUAT supports and leads in the set-up of new academies joining the partnership. The services provided by the central support function cover both educational and non-educational support. In terms of educational support, SUAT is linked to the School of Education of Staffordshire University, which is an outstanding ITT provider.
