Dear .........................

Thank you for agreeing to come to our school on................ to talk to class....../ years....... in assembly/collective worship about ...............

Assembly/collective worship begins at........ and generally lasts for........ minutes. It will take place in.. (location) and approximately ...... pupils will be present from Years......( aged....).

Please arrive by.......... and report to the school office, where you will be required to sign our visitor's book.

For the duration of your stay at our school you will be required to wear a visitor's badge; this ensures that everyone understands that you are in the building on school business.

Our school community is not a faith community and collective worship is provided for all pupils. Therefore the experience you plan should be comfortable, inclusive and sensitive to the needs of all. As part of your presentation you may wish to share your beliefs with the children. This is perfectly acceptable as long as these are put into context. Please remember it is not the place of a school to provide opportunities to convert or indoctrinate pupils. The pupils need to be reassured that all of their faith or culture backgrounds are of equal status and validity.

In our school we do not expect or invite children to pray as though they were all members of the same faith. As part of collective worship our pupils are used to having a quiet thinking/reflection time when they can consider the meaning of what they have heard and seen to their own lives. We hope that those who are religious believers use this time to relate the focus or theme to their own religious beliefs and some may indeed pray or worship internally.

If you have any queries please contact................... at the school. Please also contact us if you have the need for any equipment to be made available for you.

We look forward to seeing you on.............

Yours sincerely,