5th June 2025
Service of Welcome and Installation of Bishop Sophie Jelley
Just a reminder that Headteachers are invited to attend Bishop Sophie’s Service of Welcome and Installation which will take place this Saturday 7 June at 2pm. You should have received an invitation by email this week from The Reverend Canon Nitano Muller, Canon for Worship and Welcome at Coventry Cathedral.
Looking at Spiritual Development in Your School?
Jen Jenkins has recorded CPD ‘Spirituality Shorts’. These six one-hour recorded sessions will support you as you consider a model for spirituality that works well for your school and connects cohesively with your vision. The sessions are:
- Introduction – the expectations around spirituality in the SIAMS Framework, spirituality models available and how to tie these to the wording of your vision
- Self – what Christian theology has to say about the relationship with ‘self’ and how you can nurture this relationship during the ows and wows of life
- Others – what Christian theology has to say about the relationship with ‘others’ and how you can nurture this relationship during the ows and wows of life
- Nature/the World – what Christian theology has to say about the relationship with ‘nature and the world’ and how you can nurture this relationship during the ows and wows of life
- God/beyond – what Christian theology has to say about the relationship with ‘God or something beyond the individual’ and how you can nurture this relationship during the ows and wows of life
- Going Deeper- what next? – Bringing spirituality into collective worship, into the curriculum and into other aspects of Church school life
Find them on the DBE website with the usual passcode.
This Term’s DBE Pupil Voice Question…
A big thank you to those schools and pupils who have already contributed to the DBE’s Pupil Voice question this term. 😊
If you would like to take part, it’s very easy! We are using the ‘Smart Schools Council’ programme to email this question for your pupils to answer:
“What does it feel like to pray?”
- This is designed to be led by pupils and there is no additional work for the teacher, or software to download.
- This could be done with the worship council, school council, a lunchtime/after school club or a whole class. (Suggest year 5/6/7).
- The session includes a 3 min video clip, and discussion can be as long or as short as you like (so around 10-20 mins).
- There is a stimulus (video), discussion time and a multiple choice vote. There is an another slide for your notetaker to make additional comments – please do get the children to do this if there is time!
Thanks and do let us know what you think! We’ll feed back on the results in due course.
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