Collective Worship

Collective worship.

A daily act of Christian Collective Worship  is provided for all pupils with participation from all encouraged.

A mixture of senior leaders, local clergy or our worship group lead a Worship each week. Our children take an active part in our Worship and are encouraged to take leading roles.  Each term there is a Eucharist, led by a member of the local clergy, which is celebrated in school or at one of our local churches.  

Within classes there are dedicated ‘Reflection/Prayer areas’ where children can spend time to reflect on their thoughts and feelings whenever they wish. These special areas reflect and support the current values being studied at the time.

We respect the beliefs of our parents who do retain the right to withdraw their children from Collective Worship or Religious Education by written request. Alternative provision for the withdrawn child can be negotiated with the individual's family.

Our Church links.

Although situated in the parish of St. Wilfrid’s (Bognor), our school catchment area covers three further parishes.  The partnership that we foster between ourselves and these churches, together with the wider community is crucial to our success in developing our school as a Church of England School.

We are very proud to work in partnership with:

• St Wilfrid’s (Bognor);
• St Richard’s (Aldwick);
• St Thomas A’Becket (Pagham);
• Holy Cross (North Bersted).

Throughout the year clergy regularly visit the school to hold worship, Eucharist, events and meeting with pupils. Children also get the opportunity to visit and learn about the local churches and parishes through our RE curriculum taught in school.