Spirituality and Worship at St John's

At Bollington, St John’s, spirituality is a golden thread throughout our day to day lives. We provide regular opportunities to develop and promote children’s spirituality, teaching them to be questioning, understand themselves, relationships and the world and beyond. This enables them to become flourish and live their lives to the fullest, working with all their hearts.

Our vision, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord”, means that we strive to encourage our school community to recognise that when we work for the Lord, every action has significance and value.

Opportunities to develop spiritually are threaded throughout our curriculum, and we use the windows, mirrors, doors and candle model to provide the children with ongoing self-reflection and spiritual development.

We offer opportunities to:

·Developing questioning minds

·Embrace and encourage a love of nature

·Encourage self-awareness and reflection

·Reaffirm the importance of relationships with self, others and the wider world

·Ask big questions

·Gain a deeper understanding

This allows our pupils to:

·Enjoy exploring, and embrace, diversity

·Be creative

·Develop their imaginations

·Show kindness

·Be caring

·Show compassion

·Be self-aware

·Love themselves

·Believe in themselves

·Recognise their value

·Challenge and be willing to change their own opinions

·Be ready to say sorry, forgive and restore relationships

·Recognise their place as custodians of the earth

·Advocate for their beliefs

·Trust God to help them

Our long-term plans show how spirituality is woven into our PSHE and wider curriculum. This can be views on our curriculum pages, highlighted in green.