Prayer and worship are central to the daily life of St Catherine School and form part of every meeting, assembly or gathering.

Each day, classes pray a number of times together some of which are led by the children. We incorporate silence into all of our prayer at school, inspired by the words of St Theresa of Calcutta:

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you.

Each week the rhythm of the school is kept by moments of communal prayer and workship.

Monday - Celebration of the word

Tuesday - Hymn Practice

Wednesday - Phase Prayer (led by pupils)

Thursday - Pupil led Prayer (in class)

Friday - Celebrastion Worship

Prayer time at St Catherine’s provides opportunities for spiritual growth and development through participation in a variety of forms of worship and all forms of prayer – formal, informal, spontaneous, private, shared, petitionary and meditative.

We aim to help the children value and respect the power of prayer and to use it to help strengthen the children’s relationship with God.

We want to be a praying community. It is important for children to know the ‘formal’ prayers of the church which we may all pray together and which we all hear and say with the parish / family communities outside school.

The prayers we use are taught through word and song in Early Years and Key Stage 1 and developed in Key Stage 2. They are displayed in each classroom.

Prayer does not only mean ‘formal’ prayers. We do hope to help each other to listen to God speaking to us and to respond in our hearts and minds during moments of stillness, reflection and silence.

Each class has a prayer table which provides a focus for prayer in the classroom. 

Members of the Power of Prayer Group regularly monitor these areas and give feedback so that these areas enhance the mood and setting for periods of prayer and worship'.