Within our family of St George’s, we believe that spirituality is all about making connections.
- Making connections with our life experiences.
- Making connections with our family.
- Making connections with our friends.
We discuss how within life we all have:
‘Wow’ Moments – These are the awe and wonder moments. The times when you want to breath in and capture the feeling, holding onto it as long as you can.
‘Now’ Moments – These are the everyday ordinary times. Being able to be present in the moment, thinking of what we have and how lucky we are to be here, now.
‘Ow’ Moments – These are the things that can go wrong. They can knock the breath out of you.
We talk about how all of these moments together enable us to then make connections, and we encourage the children to use our symbols of the head, heart and hands to make their reflections.
At St George’s, Spiritual development is interwoven within the whole curriculum and as we all are spiritual beings, whether we have a faith or not, we know that spiritual moments occur all of the time. As a school, we ensure that we notice how and where the connections are being made and most importantly recognising the things that happen.
Across our Curriculum, we plan opportunities for Spirituality in line with Katheryn Wright’s Sacred Pathways:
1. Naturalists: Loving God outdoors
2. Sensates: Loving God with the senses
3. Traditionalists: Loving God through ritual and symbol
4. Ascetics: Loving God in solitude and simplicity
5. Activists: Loving God through confrontation
6. Caregivers: Loving God by loving others
7. Enthusiasts: Loving God with mystery and celebration
8. Intellectuals: Loving God with the mind.
8. Contemplatives: Loving God through adoration
We also recognise that spiritual opportunities arise spontaneously, and we ensure that we also capture these special moments too!
As part of the award, we have been busy working with the Church members to serve our local community.
Here are examples of some of the work we have completed this academic year:
- A group of Year Six pupils joined the local art group at St George’s Church to create Christmas cards for members of the community
- Attended the local Remembrance Service at St Mary’s Church
- Attended services with Reverend David at Brook Court Care Home in Kidderminster
- Sang Christmas Carols accompanied with a bell ringing performance at Brook Court Care Home in Kidderminster.
- A group of Year One and Year Five pupils have visited Brook Court throughout the year to read with the residents
- Year Three visited the grounds of the Church to carry out litter picking
- A group of Year Six children attended the Church Christmas Fayre on a Saturday afternoon and ran a stall to raise money for both Church and School
- Raised money for a local Rotary Group to support staff members in The Three Peaks challenge
- Took part in ‘Walk to School Week’ to raise awareness of the air quality within the local area
