‘So encourage each other and build each other up’

- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

All About Us!

Hi, we are the Worship Crew!

We will be involved in many aspects of school life, particularly in leading collective worship, creating reflection spaces inside and outside as well as ensuring our Christian vision and values are embedded across the school.

We recently met together to create a school prayer based on everything we believe in at Elsenham. We are proud of our collaborative ideas and look forward to teaching the rest of the school our prayer in coming assemblies.

Our school prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father,

Guide us to remember that everyone is someone in our church school community.
Give us the wisdom to become learners for life and help our kindness to shine so we are ready to make a difference.

Fill us with hope and faith in our passions, in ourselves and in You. 
May Your love and hope teach us to 'encourage each other and build each other up'. 

In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit,

Amen.

Picture news training

As a school, we use a resource called ‘Picture News’, which keeps us up to date with current affairs and allows the children to express their views and act on them. The Worship Crew recently undertook online training with Picture News to learn how to deliver Collective Worship to their peers. The Crew reported that they found the training useful, informative and ‘can’t wait to get started’! Inspiring other children to become courageous advocates is something that they believe strongly in and will start to lead discussion-based Worship after half term.

Pop-Up Prayer Space

Worship Crew organised a 'Pop-up Prayer Space' for Christmas where children from all year groups had the opportunity to create prayers on strips of paper and weave them into a collective piece. They also enjoyed some nativity themed colouring.

Our New Gazebo!

After months and months of fundraising, we have built a wooden gazebo in the playground. As well as a space for outdoor lessons, the main aim of this area is to encourage children to get in touch with their spiritual side. To promote this, the Worship Crew introduced new resources in assembly. The new resources include binoculars and magnifying glasses to appreciate the wonders of nature. They also include a set of clipboards so that children can take a moment to be mindful and do some calm colouring or write a prayer. The whole school has been excited to use the new equipment, with many children taking advantage of the binoculars to support the RSPB’s Bird Watch. The Worship Crew are taking responsibility for restocking the colouring and prayer resources, alongside maintaining equipment.