HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

As Holy Family, we learn, believe and seek to make the right choices, as God's children

Collective Worship at Holy Family

Year 2 collective Worship - Child Led

Today we have been thinking about how we should treat others, no matter what, Just as Our Mother Mary does. We decided to share the story of the Good Samaritan and discuss times when others have shown us kindness. We listened to a song called ' I'll be there' and thought of how we can show love to those we meet.

Year 6 Collective Worship

Some of our Year 6 pupils have been shining out with leading their own collective worship in class. In pairs, they have planned and delivered  worship on a theme of their choosing. They have guided us through thoughtful reflections, whilst allowing us to be close to God.

True #MissionariesofChrist.

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Year 3 Collective Worship

 

Year 3 read the story of Jesus' appearing to his followers on the road to Emmaus, and the children considered how these men would have felt in that moment. 

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Nursery Collective Worship.

 

The children sat and thought about seeing Jesus. We focused our imagination on what Jesus looks like and what he is doing. I read the passage below to the children to get them to think about Him.

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National Day of Remembrance

Year 6 reflected on the past year of Lockdown, thinking about what they and others have experienced and how this has made us stronger. We designed our own candles to represent how God is the light in our path through these difficult times and that with Him we have the strength to be positive and continue to accomplish what we want to do in life. We made thank you cards to those who helped protect and care for us during these times - some were posted to nursing relatives in France to show our appreciation.   

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Year 3 Collective Worship

Year 3 listened to a recording of Fr Frankie and then reflected on their memories from lockdown, thinking about the positive things they experienced, rather than the negative. 

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Nursery Collective worship.

 

The children listen to the story of The Garden of Gethsemane.Matthew 26:36-56.

The children gathered and meditated, focusing on imagining they were in a garden at night time, what could they sense around them and that they see Jesus. The children are building up their skills in imagining and thinking of something that hasn't happened to them in real life and what it would be like to be there and in the presence of Jesus.

The children responded by creating their own bouquet of flowers.

Year 6 Collective Worship

In our homes and families we learn, experience and test out ways of loving. As a class, we listened to scripture from Colossians 3: 12-1. We listened to God's word and reflected on the qualities that we currently possess and what we would like to possess just as God has shown us.

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Year 6 Child Collective Worship

One of our wonderful class members led a virtual collective worship. She focused on the theme of charity and linked it to our charity of the year, The Good Life Orphanage.

Year 6 Collective Worship 

Two of our wonderful Year 6 pupils led a collective worship with the focus on kindness as this week is Anti-bullying week. They confidently delivered this to our class and even included a role play. 

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Year 6 Collective Worship 

Our first child led collective worship and what a lovely treat! We stepped outside to worship together in our school prayer garden. Well done to our two class members that delivered a beautiful service.

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Year 4 Collective Worship

This week Year 4 did a Lectio Divina on Matthew 21:28-31 focusing on choices. The children reflected on what choices they make and how Christ's example helps us to make the right choices.

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Year 3 Collective Worship

This week, Year 3 looked at the importance of family in our lives. This included our family, our school family, and our church family. The children reflected on God's love for everyone in the world.

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Year 6 Collective Worship

This week's theme was friends and family. As a class, we reflected on the important personal qualities we might need to build and encourage friendships such as, patience and compassion. 

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EYFS Collective Worship

The children in EYFS have been listening to their favorite hymns. They picked apart the words they were singing about. Nursery listen to "He's got the whole world in his hand" and drew pictures of the important things in their life. The Reception children listened to "If I were a butterfly" they had a discussion about thanking God for making them special and saying thank you for something specific about themselves.

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Year 6 Collective Worship

 

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Year 1 Collective Worship

 

 This week, some children in Year 1 planned their own collective worship, using our Welcome, Word and Witness bags in our classroom. The children really enjoyed planning the worship session themselves. 

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Year 6 Collective Worship

Year 6 pupils led a lovely collective worship. It's wonderful to see children taking responsibility for planning and delivering class worship to their peers.

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EYFS Collective Worship

The children in Nursery all listened to a prayer and closed their eyes whilst holding a heart. They could pray to themselves in their head or listen to the word. the children then gave their heart to someone they loved.

Year 6 Collective Worship

We listened to the story of the wise men arriving to worship and deliver gifts to the baby Jesus. We discussed what it means to give and receive of gifts. We reflected on both physical gifts and the personal gifts of Jesus' teachings, knowing how to acknowledge when we are close to following the wrong path and how we could seek His help. 

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Year 4 Collective Worship

Today we looked at the importance of showing love and friendship towards others. We talked about how Jesus would want us to live and what we should do in order to follow His wish. We identified our talents and gifts that we have been given and made a promise to share these with others.

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Year 6 held a lovely Collective Worship this week reflecting on friendships.

We listened and discussed scripture taken from the Old Testament about the friendship between David and Jonathan. This opportunity gave us time time to reflect on our own friendships and how grateful for them we are.

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Year 3 Collective Worship

Year 3 listened to the story of Jesus' baptism, and reflected on the importance of entering God's family. 

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Year 2 Collective Worship

Year 2 Collective Worship

Here is a small selection of some of the Collective Worship that we have been doing. We did a Lectio Divina about Epiphany, the Barbarians table led a Child Collective Worship session and we did a meditation all around Epiphany.

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Year 1 Collective Worship

This week Year  1's collective worship is based on the Epiphany. We discussed how everyone has different gifts and then wrote what we thought our best gift is in a star to go into our floor book.

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Mary's Birthday

Today some classes went into the garden for some special time with Mary as it was her birthday this week (8th September).

We talked about how she was a special lady who was chosen by God to become the Mother of Jesus and thought about reasons as to why Mary was the ‘chosen one’.

We discussed the prayer the Hail Mary and figured out that it was split into two parts – the first part was praising Mary and the second was asking her to pray for us to ensure that we do the right thing.

We then said a quiet prayer to Mary and tied a ribbon to brighten up her garden. We wrote down some gifts that we would like to give to Mary.

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