Church Links

 

Mells School is a Voluntary Controlled Church of England School which means that it is a school run by Somerset County Council but which still retains its important links with the Church of England through St Andrews church and through the Diocese of Bath and Wells.

 

 

St Andrews Church in Mells

 

 

 

Our vicar, Martin Weymont, visits the school each week to take the Monday morning assembly. He also serves as Foundation Governor, along with Mrs Shirley Inch, on the school's governing body.

 

The children attend an Easter Service at St Andrews each year, led by Martin Weymont, and including parents and friends of the school .

 

 

  

 

Mells Pupils at the Christingle Service, St Andrews Church December 2008

 

The school's Religious Education provision is based on the Somerset "Awareness, Mystery and Value" (see Curriculum).

 

A daily act of collective worship takes place, led each day by a different member of staff, and including a time for prayer and reflection, a story from the bible and a hymn.

 

Christian principles are embedded in our aims and vision for the school and underpin our ethos.

 

Each daily assembly begins with the lighting of a candle and with the prayer:

 

We light the candle, for this is our special time,

 

To praise and thank our Lord,

 

To share our love and our feelings,

 

For we are His children.

 

                                              Amen

 

Each class also leads one assembly each half-term to share special work and achievements with the rest of the school. This "Celebration Assembly" includes the awarding of Celebration Certificates and certificates and badges for swimming, gymnastics, etc. This begins with the prayer:

 

We light this candle

For this is our time to celebrate

To show our work and share our skills

Thank You Lord

For our talents and Your love

                                               Amen

 

We have many other favourite prayers which we use regularly. These include:

 

The Lord's Prayer

Our father, in Heaven

Hallowed be your name

Your Kingdom come

Your will be done

On earth as it is in Heaven

Give us today our daily bread

Forgive us sins

As we forgive those who sin against us

Lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil

For the kingdom, the power

And the glory are yours

Now and forever   

                                            Amen

 

 

 

 

 

 

If Our School Were in Heaven

 

If our school were in Heaven

we would sweep the paths clean.

 

If our school were in Heaven

we would cultivate the garden.

 

If our school were in Heaven

we would keep our things neat.

 

If our school were in Heaven

we would display our work for the angels to see.

 

If our school were in Heaven

we would treat everyone as a child of God.

 

So here on earth we will do these things

and so make our school more like Heaven.

 

 

The following prayer was presented by the late Bishop Jim Thompson to the children and young people of the Diocese of Bath and Wells on 19th May 2000

 

The Millennium Prayer

 

O Lord

Let there be respect for the earth;

peace for its people,

love in our lives,

delight in the good,

forgiveness of past wrongs

and from now on a new start

Amen 

 

 

 

Our Cathedral at Wells during the Octocentennial Festival "Magnificat" Service in September 2006

 

We are supported in our work by the Diocese of Bath and Wells who provide training, resources and advice. Visit their website HERE and have a look at what is going on in our area.