A practical resource for those leading Collective Worship in primary schoolsCollective Worship for Primary Schools contains 50 assembly outlines, each based on a key theme and including an interactive game, a thought for the day, a Bible story, questions, a reflection time, a prayer and a music suggestion.Each school month has been matched to Christian festivals, topics and themes, as well as exploring traditional Christian values, such as caring for the poor and speaking out for others, in the context of school issues. Cultural issues and world focus are also included. An appendix provides a suggested calendar of assemblies to use throughout the Christian year and a list of themes linked to world international days or other significant events for the school year.

38 carefully chosen songs to enrich collective worship in primary schools.

I want a friend but who will I choose? Take a trip around the world, meet children from lots of different places and peep into their lives. This is a delightful story about friendship across nations and cultures, in which one small child visits nine different countries to find a friend - and ends up being friends with ALL the children he meets. Along the way he discovers how children live in other countries and the things they enjoy doing - showing both how their lives are different, and how many of the things children enjoy are the same throughout the world. The countries featured are: USA, Brazil, China, Russia, Kenya, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan and Morocco

Are you looking for exciting, new ideas for collective worship? Do you want to make your collective worship inspiring and thought provoking? Do you want to move beyond simply complying with legal requirements?Be Bold! is packed full of ideas, inspiration, visual resources and training materials to help you plan and lead an interesting and varied primary school worship programme. It contains a wealth of practical suggestions for schools wishing to reflect the richness of the Christian tradition in collective worship. The book is separated into chapter themes encouraging you, for example, to ‘be bold’, ‘be creative’, ‘be humorous’, ‘be thoughtful’ or ‘be Anglican’ in collective worship. Each chapter follows a clear structure giving you:Background information – offering an exploration of the theme with background information, facts and explanations. Ways of using the theme – giving practical suggestions and a springboard for ideas to develop the theme.Three ready-to-use acts of worship – outlining objectives, giving suggestions for preparation, ideas for props, readings, music and prayers as well as full advice, step-by-step stages and ways of getting pupils involved. Each act of worship has a photocopiable OHT and can be used for a range of occasions throughout the school and church year. Something to think about – suggesting a framework for staff meetings or INSET days on collective worship including questions and discussion starters, ways to develop a shared understanding of collective worship and the practicalities of implementing a collective worship programme. Extensive photocopiable illustrations and Christian symbols suitable for use during collective worship or for staff training.Be Bold! will help you feel confident in offering collective worship that has its roots in the Christian tradition. The material will enable pupils to reflect creatively on the worship themes and make meaningful connections within their own lives and the life of the wider community.

Religion and its relationship to schooling is an issue that has become more and more topical in recent years. In many countries, developments such as the diversification of state school sectors, concerns about social cohesion between ethnic and religious groups, and debates about national identity and values have raised old and new questions about the role of religion in education. Whilst the significance of this issue has been reflected in renewed interest from the academic community, much of this work has continued to be based around theoretical or pedagogical debates and stances, rather than evidence-based empirical research. This book aims to address this gap by exploring the social and political role of religion in the context of the primary school. Drawing on original ethnographic research with a child-centred orientation, comparisons are drawn between Community and Roman Catholic primary schools situated within a multi-faith urban area in the UK. In doing so, the study explores a number of ways in which religion has the potential to contribute to everyday school life, including through school ethos and values, inter-pupil relations, community cohesion and social identity and difference. At the centre of the analysis are two key sociological debates about the significance of religion in late modern societies. The first is concerned with the place of religion in public life and the influence of secularisation and post-secularism on the relationship between religion and schooling. The second relates to the increasingly multi-faith nature of many national populations and the implications for religious citizenship in educational settings. Religion in the Primary School will be a useful resource for academics, researchers and students as a key addition to existing knowledge in the disciplines of education, sociology and human geography. It will also be of value to both policy-makers and educationalists interested in the role of religion in schools and the implications for the wider community and society in a range of national contexts.