Our Connection with The Church
Claverley is a Church Aided School and part of the Hereford Diocese. We have very close links with All Saints Church, Claverley. The vicar leads worship and supports RE lessons in school. We visit the church regularly to celebrate significant Christian festivals such as Harvest, Easter and Christmas. Our children contribute to these services as well as other community events such as Remembrance Day.
As a Church of England School, our Christian Values underpin all that we do. Each half term we focus on a particular value. We then display this value in our entrance hall and corridors using images and quotes, from the Bible and elsewhere, to help the children fully understand what they mean and how they link to their own lives. We have a launch collective worship session for each value to bring it into sharp focus for the half term. We also focus on the value every week in our collective worship.
We also have our core values which are fundamental in helping to develop our children to be responsible citizens of the future. Our core values are: Hope, Dignity, Community and Wisdom.
Hope – Christian hope means trusting in the loving purposes of God: trusting that the foundations of the world are good because they spring from God.
Dignity – not thinking too much of ourselves but putting others first, trusting in God’s challenging wisdom so that we may grow in faith, hope and love.
Community – Live in harmony with one another.
Wisdom – Insight into the way life works; a proper understanding of the consequences of our thoughts, words and actions and an awareness of the true value of things.
All Saints Claverley
https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/all-saints-claverley
Our values are the foundations of our behaviour policy, and we use them to talk to the children about their actions, to help them understand consequences. This then helps them to make changes and choices to ensure they are following our values within school and in their own lives at home.
Our half termly values for 2023-2024
Aut 1- generosity
generosity
Aut 2- Compassion
COMPASSION
Spring 1 -Courage
COURAGE
Spring 2-Forgiveness
forgiveness
Summer 1-Friendship
friendship
Summer 2 -Respect
Values for 2024-25
Aut 1 -Thankfulness
thankfulness
Aut 2 – Trust
trust
Spring 1 – Perseverance
PERSEVERANCE
Spring 2 – Justice
justice
Summer 1- Service
SERVICE
Summer 2- Truthfulness
truthfulness
Christingle
Our Vicar (Garry) doing a Christingle service in school. We are always overwhelmed by the generosity of our school community which supports the ‘Children’s Society’.
Harvest – We support our community by donating tins and packets to the local foodbank.
Harvest
This year we have celebrated Harvest in a very different way. We missed being able to come together in the church as a whole school community. Garry produced a Harvest Festival for us all to watch and each class have contributed too! A BIG thank you to everyone who has donated tins, packets and toiletries for the Bridgnorth Foodbank. It just shows that even though we couldn’t all get together in person, we are all able to take the time to support others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIHnV4pkCM