Our Christian Values

Christian Distinctiveness

At Guilden Morden Cof E Primary Academy, we aim to provide each child with a challenging, stimulating and enjoyable education, rooted firmly in our Christian ethos. We strive to develop the whole child through the encouragement of high expectations, in an inclusive and supportive environment, where every child can reach for their full potential and flourish. This is underpinned by our theological Christian vision:

Together we work to succeed and flourish, to live life in all its fullness. John 10:10

Recognising its historic foundation, the school preserves and develops its religious character in accordance with the principles of the Church of England and in partnership with the Church at parish and diocesan level. 

• We aim to serve its community by providing an education of the highest quality within the context of Christian belief and practice.
• We welcome families of faith or no faith equally.
• We help the children to gain an understanding of the meaning and significance of faith and promote Christian values through the experiences we offer to all pupils.

Collective Worship

In order to help all our children develop in the image of God and live life to its full, we recognise the importance of Collective Worship in supporting this. Therefore we have a variety of adults and children leading collective worship bringing their own spiritual experiences. Distinctively Christian worship is an integral part of every day in school and a chance to come together and worship as a school family.

Collective Worship is adapted to suit the needs and understanding of different age ranges and abilities. As a school we offer visual displays in each class to focus the children on current theological activities or a space to reflect. We also promote prayer across the school and teach the children that prayer can be carried out at any place and at any time.

Worship and prayers make reference to everyday issues for example linking bible stories to living out our school vision and values. We support the children and adults in seeing the relevance and living out our Christian values in their daily lives.

We organise a variety of different people to lead regular worship, including staff, pupils, members of the clergy, Open the Book and GenR8. We also hold family services at our local church to celebrate key evets in the Christian calendar. At these services we invite everyone involved in school worship to take part.

Our weekly Collective Worship is planned as follows:

Mondays  –   Christian Values Worship -  the whole school join together to explore ours Christian values. Themes around the different school values each term.

Tuesdays  – In class termly Values Worship - class based worship on the different school values each term.

Wednesdays  – Festivals and Events Worship     - the whole school join together to look at festivals in the Christian calendar and in other world religions.

Thursdays –  Choral Worship  - the whole school join together to learn new songs an hymns for worship, appropriate to the religious season.

Fridays – Celebrations Worship - the whole school join together to celebrate learning, sporting and other achievements throughout the week.