Collective Worship is a time during the day when children gather together, listen to and reflect on a Gospel reading. They are given the opportunity to lead and respond with their own choice of readings, hymns and prayers.
Staff, parents and children participate in the prayer life of our school.
At St. Mary’s children gather together to pray at regular intervals during the school day. We pray to God is as he commanded us to. We follow Jesus’ example and learn from him.
The Gospels are full of references of Jesus demonstrating the power of prayer, for example:
During the week children plan, facilitate and lead their class prayer services. All classrooms have prayer areas that include liturgical images, artefacts and prayers. Time and opportunities are given for personal prayer time, especially during Advent and lent.
All assemblies and gatherings in school have a religious and prayer focus for the whole community.
We also work hard to include families in the prayer life of our school. We do this by:
At St. Mary's we learn and use a variety of prayers.
Some of the prayers we use are in our "Prayers at St Mary's" prayer book. It includes our four school day prayers, the Saint Nicholas Owen MAC prayer, plus The Angeuls, The Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, Veni Sancte Spiritus, and many more.
You can read our school prayer book below:
At St Mary’s we celebrate Whole School Mass at 9:15am on Friday, with our Parish Priest and Parishioners to share our faith. Class Masses are celebrated on alternative Fridays.