Collective worship – Roots and Fruits

We use Roots and Fruits as the main focus for our collective worship.

Roots and Fruits provides creative collective worship for primary schools based in Christian values themes over a period of two years. Rooted in Bible teaching, twelve Christian values represent the fruit that grows as the teaching is lived out in everyday life.

The value for the Summer Term 1 is Generosity and Summer Term 2 is Respect.

A prayer of welcome

We light three candles to remind us of: 

God the Father, the generous giver, 

God the Son, who gave his life for the world and 

God the Holy Spirit, who inspires us to give cheerfully. 

Generosity is… 

Encouraging the best in each other 

Never selfish 

Enjoying helping others 

Raising support for a good cause 

Offering what we can 

Sharing our time and talents 

Inviting someone to join in 

Taking care of God’s creation for future generations 

You first, me last. 

Welcome prayer

We have gathered in the name of 

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, 

to worship together 

and think about our value 

compassion. 

Compassion is… 

Costly caring 

Offering help 

Making a difference 

Putting others first 

Always listening 

Sensitive to suffering 

Service in action 

Interested in others 

Offering care and concern 

Noticing a need. 

Space Makers

Space Makers is a resource for schools and churches from the Diocese of Oxford. Accessible to pupils of all faiths and worldviews, five contemplative practices help schools to embrace some of the ancient wisdom of the Christian tradition and, in doing so, assist children to navigate the world around them. Climate anxiety and the vast increase in screen time and exposure to social media seem to be causes of deteriorating mental health in young people.

The ancient contemplative traditions of Christianity, like its secular cousin ‘mindfulness’, have a lot to offer at this time. Space Makers brings five contemplative practices into the life of our schools.