St Mary’s Church Mucklestone
A warm welcome awaits you at any of our services 11:15am every Sunday morning.
Family services are held every month, when members of Children’s Church Club help to plan and lead the service.
Some services have a seasonal theme such as Christingle and Mothering Sunday.
The links between St Mary’s Primary School and Church are an extremely important part of our school ethos and we warmly encourage parents and carers to join the services.
Please visit The Loggerheads Benefice website where you will find details of what we believe, our worship and events
Each classroom has a reflection area. Class 2 is used for collective worship and creates a space for thoughtfulness and reflection. Our display boards celebrate the spirituality of our school. Mirrors, windows and doors are explored to question the ‘ow’ and ‘wow’ of our world and encourage us to look within, out and in new directions. These are the times we reflect and pray. We encourage children to respond in individual ways.
We share in Focus on Faith days when we learn more about and celebrate other faiths. We visit the Open Centre in Derby to be immersed in the faith trail. We invite weekly visitors from our community, Open the Book team, Father David and Father Mark (Methodist minister) to understand further different Christian denominations and learn more from the Bible.
Daily collective worship can be led by the Headteacher, staff, our vicar, Open the Book team or class led. It is carefully planned and a time the school can be together, to be still, quiet and have time to reflect. We question the impact we have on the world and we question ourselves. Link Governor sessions are shared and celebrated as a way of foundation/all governors being invited to share in worship too.
Children ask big questions when they have time to stop, think and reflect. This demonstrates their curious minds and enquiry into how they see the bigger picture of the whole world. Pupils express themselves in their own unique way and this is valued and celebrated in our small school. We are a family, we value each other, we value our world. We value God.
Collect worship, RE, PSHE and our thorough rich curriculum - pupils discuss the impact of their behaviour and relationships in school. We acknowledge spirituality is a different experience for everyone.
Spirituality involves the recognition of a feeling or sense or belief that there is something greater than myself, something more to being human than sensory experience, and that the greater whole of which we are part is cosmic or divine in nature.
