Christian Values Group
The ‘Christian Values Group’ is a group of governors, staff, church representatives, parents and our curate, Trish Mander. The distinctiveness of a church school is that we help to develop ‘all round human beings’. This group aims to promote our school values, enhance children’s education and develop links within the community. The group meets once every half term. If you would like to be a part of this group please let us know. New members are always welcome. You can help in many ways.
One of the responsibilities of the group is to organise family church assemblies. These are usually held on the first Monday of every month and involve the whole school community. All parents are invited to attend. Members of the CVG group also organise teas and coffees at these service and always welcome help with this too.
Prayer art is an activity organised and led by the CVG . The children can choose this as a golden time activity on a Friday afternoon. It is on every two weeks and provides craft activities that aim to encourage the children to pray. It is linked to the story that the children have heard in the previous Monday’s collective worship. Some examples of prayer art are hand prayers where the children draw round their hands and write 5 different things they would like to pray for on each finger. The children have also completed spiral prayers which were hung in the spiritual garden.
Our school bible verse is:
“Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” (Psalm 119.105)
SIAS (statutory inspection of church schools) inspection
Our last SIAS inspection was December 2013. The CVG work towards the requirements stated in the updated SIAMS framework.
Sponsorship
We sponsor Stanley from Haiti through Compassion’s Child Sponsorship Programme. The programme is the heart of Compassion’s ministry to children living in poverty and aims to disciple, equip and enable children to develop into fulfilled and responsible adults.
The Child Sponsorship Programme is operated through a Child Development Centre which is run in partnership with a local church in the child’s community. Child sponsorship is a one-to-one relationship between a sponsor and a needy child living in desperate poverty in the developing world.
We hold ’10p Tuesday’ each week where children are asked to bring in 10p to cover Stanley’s sponsorship. The school council also come up with fundraising ideas and hold events to raise money for him.
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