Sentences with phrase «collective worship»

The majority of acts of collective worship in any given school term should still be «wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character».

We use this to deliver collective worship in form time and it can last for anything from two to ten minutes per day depending on how long you would like it to take.

In community schools the head teacher is responsible for collective worship provision, in consultation with the governors.

This Bundle Includes 4 of our tutor time / assembly / collective worship resources.

This PowerPoint has a daily stimulus for use with the daily act of collective worship.

We believe that if the law on collective worship were repealed schools would risk losing this vital element of shaping a community that reflects the full breadth of human experience.

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It is an ideal way of meeting RE objectives for younger pupils, or could be used within Collective Worship at Christmas time.

These would be useful for daily collective worship in schools or for assemblies as well.

Act of Collective Worship including interview surrounding Michael J...

«The report also misunderstands collective worship in schools.

In a question to the Education Secretary, the MP for Enfield, Southgate, said: «There are reports that Ofsted is demanding that a Christian school invites an imam to take collective worship and that Jewish schoolchildren have been asked intrusive questions about their views on sexuality.

«It is time that the Government wakes up to the policy implications of this and stops giving bishops privileged places in the House of Lords, stops funding ever more religious schools and requiring every school that is not religious to have a daily act of Christian collective worship.»

The requirements for collective worship differ in different parts of the UK.

Sixth form pupils and parents on behalf of (in England and Wales younger) pupils have an absolute right to withdrawal from compulsory Collective Worship.

If collective worship was ended and RE became universally objective, fair and balanced (and included non-religious views such as Humanism), community schools would indeed be exactly what we would want a school to be — open and accommodating to all.

The booklet itself includes: * Get to know me page, * All about me cloud, * How have I contributed page, * Collective Worship page, * Gospel Values, * Multi-Faith Research Task, * AND MUCH MORE!!!

Halloween and Day of the Dead Assembly / Tutor Time / Collective Worship Pack This resource pack contains + 1x Assembly and 2 x tutor time sessions.

Most religious groups, teaching unions, and the Religious Education Council are concerned about the law on collective worship.

Under current rules, parents have the right to withdraw their children from RE lessons and collective worship at all maintained schools, including those of a faith character, and do not have to give their reasons for doing so.

For example, all state schools are required to provide daily collective worship of «a broadly Christian character... concerned with reverence or veneration paid to a divine being».

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BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «For years now we have seen religious teachers being given preference to work in state funded «faith» schools, not just when they would be expected to teach Religious Instruction or lead Collective Worship, but regardless of which subject they are applying for.

«The church strongly supports the statutory requirement for collective worship in all schools and there is plenty of flexibility in the provision to enable all pupils to benefit without compromising their faith or lack of it.

From 1870, the state has taken increasing control, although the Church of England and Roman Catholic churches still have a significant role, and religious education, which now includes teaching about the other major world religions as well as Christianity, is still required, as well as a daily act of collective worship.

«We know, for example, that the response of many schools to the horror of the Paris attacks will have been in the context of collective worship.

The idea behind the word «liturgy» is a community of people offering themselves in collective worship.

Introducing the report, John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford and chairman of the Church of England board of education, argued that Church schools are «absolutely and irrevocably at the heart of our mission», and explained that they are working on a new curriculum that will mean that «the Christian faith right the way through its life, not just in RE and collective worship.»

It has also commented on the overall aims of the national curriculum and matters related to English, history, Collective Worship, spirituality and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development.

for a repeal of the legal requirement of «collective worship» which applies even in community schools

It also calls for the immediate phasing out of state - funded faith schools over a period of five years and a repeal of the current legal requirement for all state - funded schools to hold acts of collective worship and for non-religious schools to hold acts of worship of a broadly Christian character.

«On a related note, we are particularly concerned that children's rights are routinely infringed when it comes to opt outs from RE, Collective Worship and sex education.

Currently UK law allows parents whose children attend state schools to opt them out of these subjects up until the child leaves school, in the case of RE and sex education outside of Science, or the end of compulsory school age, in the case of Collective Worship.

In other acts of worship, consideration should be given to «circumstances relating to the family backgrounds of the pupils which are relevant for determining the character of the collective worship which is appropriate in their case» and to the «ages and aptitudes» of the pupils.

We would question the legality of extending the faith of a school's curriculum beyond RE and Collective Worship, as parents are often forced to send their children to a «faith» school and these parents and children will have their human rights broken if they are not able to escape from the religious ethos of the school.