We try to approach spirituality with children in a way that they can understand. In Collective Worship, we use the concept of Windows, Mirrors and Doors to structure our worship and allow time for reflection.
We are also link this to Wows and Ows!
Wows! – The Awe and Wonder moments where your heart sings, you feel blessed, you gasp with excitement or feel truly happy!
Ows! – The moments where we are brought up short. We are shocked or saddened or surprised.
In Collective Worship each week, we look to these moments explicitly.
In school, we promote spiritual development in a myriad of ways and try to think of this linked to SELF, OTHERS, WORLD and BEYOND.
Spiritual development may come through the curriculum e.g. through explicit reflection of SELF in PSHE lessons or consideration of OTHERS in our team work during PE. Sometimes though, it is through the wider school life where we encourage Spiritual Development.
We are a Christian school which means:
- We learn about God - all of the wonderful things he has done and what he wants us to be like.
- We have values which are key to the Christian faith and we try hard to live these every day.
- Our school's vision is linked to the Bible.
- We have connections with church and visit regularly.
- We pray and even have our own school prayer.
- We celebrate Christian festivals and learn the true meaning of them.
- We are inclusive and welcome everybody.
Forgive us for all our wrongs and praise us for our rights.
Let our school community be a place of learning, wonder and love.
Help us to grow and develop together to achieve our very best.
We wish that you can guide us in learning to help and understand each other and create wonderful friendships.
Keep us safe, happy and a big Woodside family.
Please help us to be lights that shine for you.
Amen
We love to join in as they act, read, perform and sing. Each week a group of children is selected to participate with the lively dramatisation of a Bible story , helping to bring our collective worship to life.
Flo brought the community together to create her friendship garden whilst battling Neuroblastoma and brought positivity and collaboration at a difficult time for all. The garden was designed by her in April 22.
We are an inclusive school that values all. Jesus taught us to love one another and to all the same. I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — [John 13:34]
We have a link with the Olive School in Birmingham, which is a predominantly Islamic faith school. Our Y3 children invited them to Woodside, to work together on a project where we look at the identities of one another and share the importance of all begin equal. In Feb 24, we will be returning to their school.
