Collective Worship Archives

Birbalsingh: The Strict Headteacher Prayer ‘Ban’ Issue

Written by magicsteven1 on 24th January 2024. Posted in Collective Worship, Education. 2 Comments on Birbalsingh: The Strict Headteacher Prayer ‘Ban’ Issue

by John Richards Katherine Birbalsingh was the subject of an excellent video interview recently on Unherd – do watch it: [ED: This is a must watch video. It is quite (more…)

Collective worship in schools

Written by 0Evolved0 on 17th April 2021. Posted in Collective Worship, Education, Religion. 1 Comment on Collective worship in schools

Schools could be found in breach of failing to fulfil requirements for daily ‘collective worship’. The Education Act (1944) requires all maintained schools to provide a daily act of collective (more…)

UN recommend UK Government repeal collective worship

Written by Chris Street on 9th October 2016. Posted in Collective Worship.

Atheism UK campaign for the abolition of compulsory Collective Worship. COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRC/Pages/Membership.aspx The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) held its 72nd (more…)

School Children Punished for Not Going to Mass

Written by 0Evolved0 on 8th October 2016. Posted in Catholicism, Collective Worship, Education. 1 Comment on School Children Punished for Not Going to Mass

Story taken from the BBC News Site School children who decided not to attend their Catholic school’s Founders Mass one afternoon are to be subjected to discipline by the school. (more…)

125 Schools opt-out of Collective Worship

Written by Chris Street on 21st July 2015. Posted in Atheism, Collective Worship, Education. 2 Comments on 125 Schools opt-out of Collective Worship

Schools Week report that more than 125 schools have opted-out of Collective Worship in the past 3 years. These schools have applied to be exempt from the legal requirement to hold Collective (more…)

Lords debate the role of religion and belief in British public life

Written by Chris Street on 30th November 2014. Posted in Collective Worship, Faith, House of Lords, Philosophy, Religion. 3 Comments on Lords debate the role of religion and belief in British public life

A 150 minute debate about the role of religion and belief in British public life is reviewed by Chris Street (President, Atheism UK, since June 2014). The House of Lords (more…)

Religious Education

Written by 0Evolved0 on 2nd December 2009. Posted in Atheism, Collective Worship. 4 Comments on Religious Education

We adopt a ground-breaking approach to the state-sponsored propagation of faith. (more…)