It has long been a statutory requirement that schools provide a daily act of collective worship and yet few schools have the luxury of a space large enough to house the whole school together. As a consequence, schools have had to come up with creative ways of meeting this requirement, such as providing tutors with a “thought for the day”.
It is fair to say, that this is delivered with mixed levels of commitment and skill. Over time it has been perhaps inevitable that assemblies have come to be seen as one of the least important things in school, perhaps a bit of an afterthought after the main business of teaching has been completed.
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