Spirituality

Spirituality is a natural aspect of everyday life at Tynsel Parkes CE Primary Academy. We believe that all of our children are on a spiritual journey as well as an academic journey and need to be nurtured and show the path to encourage well rounded spiritual beings. 

We believe this is an ongoing process and takes all of us on different journeys throughout our lives. Our approach to spirituality enables children to develop into adults being about to tackle the ups and downs of everyday life and respect and appreciate the world and those around them whilst not being afraid of questioning how they see the world. 

Spirituality Wellbeing  Knowledge Aspect  How do we encourage spirituality? 
Myself 
  • Understanding  I am a unique person 
  • Have a perception of myself 
  • Having self-worth 
  • Having values and beliefs that are my own 
  • Having self confidence 
  • Feeling joy, fulfilment, peace, patience, freedom, humility, integrity and creativity 
  • Having my own identity 
  • Being able to make decisions and take responsibility 
  • Feeling joy and celebrating achievements 
  • Being able to be silent and reflect 
  • Reflecting on their own beliefs through collective worships and RE activities and lessons.  
  • Discussions and conversations in class, with adults and with peers 
  • Reflection on their own experiences 
  • Celebrations of success within and outside of the school community 
  • Through visitors, trips and clubs  
  • Christian Values 
  • Reflection Areas 
  • Providing children with good role models from all adults in school 
  • Promoting positive, considerate, kind attitudes by all adults in school 
  • Recognising the backgrounds and individual needs of all children in school  
  • Behaviour choices and encouraging children to make the right decisions 
Others 
  • Having empathy, concern, compassion and forgiveness for others 
  • Appreciating and understanding others values, opinions, principles and beliefs 
  • Caring and nurturing approach to others 
  • Being able to create inter-personal relationships 
  • Be able to feel love, hope and trust 
  • Be able to follow the values of my school community 
  • Enjoy and engage in celebrations 
  • See others as feeling thinking beings 
  • Have an awareness of failure, loss, disappointment, suffering and pain of others 
·  Working with and raising money for charities 

·  Collective worships 

·  Celebration assemblies 

·  Curriculum subjects and activities 

·  Community links- project outcomes and links with local groups 

·  Creating links with parents to encourage a home/school partnership 

·  Children can conduct themselves appropriately amongst each other 

·  Discussion of real world events and news 

World 
  • Have awe and wonder about the world 
  • See the beauty relating to the man-made and natural world 
  • Have care and consideration towards nature 
  • Connect with nature 
  • Value nature and creation 
  • Be curious and inquisitive about the world around them 
  • Ask big questions about life 
  • Have a sense of mystery 
  • Have an open mindedness to life 
  • Curriculum; through learning about the world in multiple subject areas 
  • Collective worships 
  • Community projects both internal and external (Recycling) 
  • PATHs discussions 
  • Links with the Minster 
  • Real life experiences 
Beyond 
  • Be able to understand meaning outside of everyday life 
  • Have faith in religion 
  • Have adoration and worship 
  • Be at one with the creator 
  • Have an essence of the universe 
  • Understand that there is more to life than meets the eye 
  • Collective worship 
  • Links with the Minster 
  • Real life experiences 
  • Have candles for collective worship (During Hall Collective Worships) 
  • Prayer 
  • Reflection 

 

Spirituality within our Curriculum.  

Within each curriculum subject area we promote spirituality. Here are some examples of how we promote this across the curriculum areas. 

Subject  How do we encourage spirituality across the curriculum? 
Maths 
  • Identifying pattern and creating awe and wonder regarding numbers 
  • Exploring truth in terms of number 
  • Perseverance when tackling tricky tasks 
  • Sense of achievement  
  • Creating confident learners  
  • Teaching children self-worth and encouraging them to take risks  
  • Identifying maths concepts such as time and space 
English/Reading 
  • Understanding the world and others feelings through books and texts 
  • Developing compassion and understanding of others  
  • Understanding emotions through written words 
  • Having aspirations through inspiration in books and text 
  • Visiting other worlds through books and text 
  • Creating an idea of awe and wonder through literature 
  • Perseverance when writing/reading 
  • Sense of achievement  
  • Creating confident learners through developing reading and class discussions 
  • Teaching children self-worth and encouraging them to take risks  
Science 
  • Asking questions about science, religion and the world 
  • Having an awe and wonder about the various scientific concepts 
  • Discovering space, the universe and beyond 
  • Creating links and questions between science and religion 
  • Perseverance  
Computing 
  • Awe and wonder of what can be found on the internet 
  • Joy and excitement of what can be developed and created 
  • Communication with others and how to take responsibility for themselves online 
PE 
  • Working as a team 
  • Self-actualisation  
  • Caring, encouraging and supporting others 
  • Participating in sports teams to achieve a bigger goal 
  • Understanding failure and disappointment as well as success and joy 
RE 
  • Developing a sense of questioning the world around them 
  • Asking questions about faith and religion on a personal and wider level 
  • Use of music and art 
  • Understanding other cultures, opinions, values and points of views 
  • Understanding many celebrations and beliefs 
  • Developing an understanding of commitment and sacrifice  
DT, ART, Geography, History 
  • Discovery 
  • Understanding the beauty in design and the world 
  • Personal achievement 
  • Perseverance 
  • Communication and working with others 
  • Problem solving 
  • Understanding how subjects such as art can have an emotional impact on the beholder 
  • Understanding the world and the way people treat each other in subjects such as history and geography 
  • Perseverance  
  • Resilience  
  • Achievement  
  • Self-exploration and an understanding of you as an individual  
  • Understanding other cultures, opinions, values and points of views 
  • Understanding of diversity 
  • Questioning the world and the environment 
  • Looking at war and peace 
Collective Worship 
  • Prayer 
  • Reflection 
  • Sharing collective worship 
  • Listening to stories  
  • Connecting together  
  • Sharing a multitude of emotions and feelings 
  • Empathy  
  • Awe and wonder 
  • Creating questions 
  • Encouraging self-exploration 
  • School values 
Around the school 
  • Promoting self-responsibility for behaviour 
  • Caring for others inside school and on the playground 
  • Respect 
  • Kindness 
  • Thankfulness  
  • Manners 
  • Helpfulness 

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