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The daily act of collective worship is of fundamental importance to a Church school. It is required to fit with the religious character of the school's foundation. In other words the law on collective worship in a community school, that it "should be wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character" does not apply in a Church school, where it should be clearly Christian. Good collective worship in any school needs also to relate to the pupils and their religious development and experience.
In a voluntary aided school it is a condition of teachers' employment that they attend and play a full part in the daily act of collective worship. That legal requirement does not apply in a voluntary controlled or foundation school but worship there is still an important part of the ethos of the school which teachers must be willing and able to uphold.
Advice and practical help on collective worship can be found elsewhere on this web site, and on the Collective Worship site produced by Culham College Institute in association with The National Society.
Why the Eucharist in school? (article by Canon John Hall, 26 June 2000)
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