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Worship at Darwen St James
Collective Worship Policy
Worship at Darwen St James’ is integral to our daily academy life. It is a time that brings us all together, be it remotely, in the hall or as class groups. We use this time to reflect, discuss, talk to God and praise him through song.
Worship is planned by Miss Peckson, our worship lead and the Worship team have input into the planning and also the delivery of some of the worships. For our worship overview for this year please see below. From that document you will see that our worship is planned in themes, which are not value specific. This enables us to focus on all of our values throughout the year in many different ways.
Through Worship we look at our values, bible stories, Christian festivals, world news events and how that relates to God and Jesus, multi-cultural and different faiths festivals, Remembrance and a huge amount more. Worship is led by all of the teachers at Darwen St James’ who embrace the experience that Worshiping with the children gives them.
This is what our daily collective Worship looks like –
| Monday | Class Worship/Worship through song |
| Tuesday | Whole school Worship. |
| Wednesday | Whole school Worship with Rev. Kev |
| Thursday | Class Worship - Picture News |
| Friday | Whole school Celebration Worship. |
Worship Overview 2025/2026
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Aut1 |
Spr1 |
Sum1 |
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W/S Theme - Thankfulness and Generosity Festivals - Harvest Values - Hope, Courage, Friendship and Perseverance |
W/S Theme - Perseverance Festivals - Epiphany Values - Love, Hope, Courage, Friendship, Perseverance |
W/S Theme - Friendship Festivals - Ascension, Pentecost Values - Courage, hope, Perseverance, Friendship |
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Aut2 |
Spr2 |
Sum2 |
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W/S Theme - Trust and Compassion Festivals - Remembrance day, Advent, Christmas Values - Hope, Love, Courage, Friendship |
W/S Theme - Justice Festivals - /Shrove Tuesday/Ash Wednesday/Lent/ Easter Values - Love, Hope, Friendship, Perseverance, Courage
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W/S Theme - Respect Festivals - Ordinary Time Values - Courage, Hope, Love, Perseverance, Friendship |
Our Worship area in the school hall.
At the start of our worship we say the Trinity and light three candles in the name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We then say our opening words together. To signal the end of our worship we say our closing words together as we put out the candles.
As we are a church school each classroom or base has its own worship/ reflective area. Each area contains various resources suitable for the age of the children who use the room. Examples of resources include Bibles or Bible story books, crosses, candles, a book to record class prayers, prayer dice and prayer formats which can be used to write prayers for collective worship.
Prayer At Darwen St James
The Lord’s Prayer.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Our Action Prayer.
May the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
And the love of God our Father.
And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
Be with us all evermore.
Amen.
Our Governor's Prayer
St. James Over Darwen church is our local Church and is just up the road from our academy. We have strong links with our Church, we visit them on a regular basis for worship and celebrations including Easter, Harvest and Christmas. Our Reverand, Rev. Kev leads our worship every Wednesday, he will also be around school supporting familes and our pupils.
Rev Kev is the Vicar of St James, Over Darwen our church school. He loves to make faith in God real and exciting to everyone, especially those who are not normally members of the church. He has lived in Belgium with his family for 10 years, likes to think he can speak French. For fun he likes running and messing about with computers and technology.
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January 2024
We recently had a team from the Church of England head office come and make a film about Minecraft Church! Very exciting! Hope you like it!
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