COLLECTIVE WORSHIP
DRAWN THE SHORT STRAW?
YOUR TURN TO TAKE ASSEMBLY?
We've all been there.
It is 9.00 at night and you know you have 12 hours before you have to lead whole school collective worship...
and you haven't got a single idea...
HELP!
On this page you will find links to general advice on
planning and leading worship.
For starting points for specific acts of collective worship ,
try assemblies.org.uk
Worship Workshop,
a Church of England site, has resources, music suggestions
(including downloadable backing tracks etc.) and a worship
planner.
Schoolswork, is
another site with all sorts of useful resources.
Rochester Diocese (Church of England) Board of Education guidance
on planning and monitoring collective worship
My own Collective
Worship Blog, with assemblies I have led at our local
primary school.
THINKING ABOUT WORSHIP AND WORSHIP PLANNING
Stuck for a theme? Starting Points
Using
all
the senses in worship - "Tuning the Five Stringed Harp"
And here
is a very, very good (as always) paper from Dr John Hull,
written in 1995, but still very appropriate, highlighting some
of the theology, and the theological problems behind this thing
called "collective worship".