The Collective Worship resources and links shared here are designed to support you in formulating policy and developing practice.
Your School Adviser is available to offer you personalised support to suit your own school needs.
The Chelmsford Diocesan Education Team is delighted to share with you some ideas to support your schools’ class based Collective Worship. These weekly suggestions, explore the Lord’s Prayer.
Church of England hosted resources that were put together in 2020 and 2021 to support home, school and church together in collective worship. Includes videos and downloads both for primary and secondary schools (don’t miss these PDFs as there’s half a term’s planning in there!). How might you use these with a pupil-led worship group?
Resources from Imaginor. It has a Gather, Engage, Respond, Send structure and also uses Windows, Mirrors and Doors approach. There are separate resources for Early Years.
An interactive resource – useful for pupils to mix and match to create your own unique worship! How will you model using it, before getting the pupils to plan from it?
From the publishing arm of the Diocese of Gloucester, this includes free downloads and planning resources, and new ‘Experience Easter’ and other church year festivals with resources for school and church and community to enjoy together.
Meet Lucy and William, who are worship leaders in their primary school. Join them as they explain the structure and pattern of an act of collective worship in their school. Other materials from The Diocese of Canterbury are here.
From Bath and Wells ‘Go Team’, Bible Chat Mats allow children, young people, and adults to read the Bible and talk about it, whether in school, around a meal table, or sitting on the sofa!
A news-based weekly email that covers a host of topics but now with a biblical link or Christian value too. Subscription required. Some pupil worship groups use the materials as stimulation for their own planning of collective worship.
A teaching resource from Christian Aid, with material for primary and secondary use, including collective worship.
An array of reflection ideas for use in collective worship, classroom reflection spaces or intergenerational activities that your school could set up in conjunction with your church or community.
Great resources on a range of topics from Black History Month to anti bullying to Windrush. New topics added regularly.
Heart for the Earth is a school-based resource that will encourage our church schools to reflect theologically and practically on the issues of climate change.
Primary and secondary school assemblies with a broadly Christian perspective ‘for every season’ from SPCK. Contains a section on assemblies to celebrate festivals of a good range of religions and a ‘rapid response’ feature to help schools address big issues in the news. Planning tools, searchable by season or Christian value.
Great resources to support planning on key Christian events and Christian themes.
The Big Start Assemblies team has made available one complete series, consisting of thirteen assemblies; all built around the specific theme entitled ‘Giants of Faith!' These assemblies will help children engage on the topic of faith whilst meeting SIAMS and Ofsted guidelines on Collective Worship.
Some free, but mostly subscription – songs that children love to sing and ‘Words on Screen’ technology!
iSingPOP have great songs and worships to share with pupils. It follows the SIAMS Church of England’s requirements for Collective Worship and is partnered with Prayer Spaces In Schools Each worship time involves a song, bible story and a prayer activity designed specifically for each key stage along with the Lord's Prayer. There is a free taster pack to download.
Pop UK are offering FREE song resources to all primary schools through our standard membership for the next twelve months. Their songs have been carefully written to maintain a Christian distinctiveness yet can be sung by children of all backgrounds and cultures.
Christian songs that support emotional, social and spiritual health and wellbeing in children through music.
Church of England hosted resources that were put together in 2020 and 2021 to support home, school and church together in collective worship. Includes videos and downloads both for primary and secondary schools (don’t miss these PDFs as there’s half a term’s planning in there!). How might you use these with a pupil-led worship group?
Guiding Light online is the Blackburn Diocesan Board of Education Collective Worship programme for High Schools and Academies. It is a programme which covers all aspects of school and academy life linked to leadership and management, and the delivery of the Collective Worship, the legal requirement and Statement of Entitlement for Collective Worship. Each of the resources for worship comes with a suite of support materials for Key Stages 3-5. There are free samples and a cost is involved for the resource.
Great resources on a range of topics from Black History Month to anti bullying to Windrush. New topics added regularly.
From Bath and Wells ‘Go Team’, Bible Chat Mats allow young people, and adults to read the Bible and talk about it, whether in school, around a meal table, or sitting on the sofa! It can be adapted for Form Worship.
A news-based weekly email that covers a host of topics but now with a biblical link or Christian value too. Subscription required. Some pupil worship groups use the materials as stimulation for their own planning of collective worship.
A teaching resource from Christian Aid, with material for primary and secondary use, including collective worship.
An array of reflection ideas for use in collective worship, classroom reflection spaces or intergenerational activities that your school could set up in conjunction with your church or community.
Primary and secondary school assemblies with a broadly Christian perspective ‘for every season’ from SPCK. Contains a section on assemblies to celebrate festivals of a good range of religions and a ‘rapid response’ feature to help schools address big issues in the news.
Isingpop have great songs and worships to share with pupils. It follows the SIAMS Church of England’s requirements for Collective Worship and is partnered with Prayer Spaces In Schools Each worship time involves a song, bible story and a prayer activity designed specifically for each key stage along with the Lord's Prayer. There is a free taster pack to download.
Worship works are child friendly Christian songs/hymns as well as liturgy, readings and planning tools, searchable by season or Christian value.
Great resources to support planning on key Christian events and Christian themes.
Heart for the Earth is a school-based resource that will encourage our church schools to reflect theologically and practically on the issues of climate change.
The Collective Worship in our schools should strive to be the ‘heartbeat’ of a school, beating away beneath everything that goes on in school.
These eleven weekly suggestions for class based Collective Worship explore the Lord’s Prayer.
See our The Lord’s Prayer - class based Collective Worship page
