Advent 2025: A Free Collective Worship Resource

As we journey towards Christmas this Advent season, we invite your school to join us in The Joy of Christmas, a brand new collective worship resource for Advent 2025 aimed at KS2 and KS3 learners.

The Joy of Christmas

For KS1 pupils there is a brand new version of the book The Grumpy Owl and the Joy of Christmas, which tells the story of Jesus’ birth through the eyes of an owl who seems determined to miss all the excitement. You can find out more about this here: The Grumpy Owl and the Joy of Christmas by Jonathan Maltz, Christopher Poch, Jago - Paperback / softback - 9781781405291.

At KS2 and KS3 we focus on the central theme of grumpiness into joy, taking time to reflect and celebrate the key characters in the Nativity story, Mary and Joseph, the shepherds and the wise men. We’ll explore what might have made them grumpy, or find things difficult, and how they found joy in connection, trusting, sharing, and following.

Resource Information

Advent officially starts on Sunday 30th November, but you may want to start the resource the week before, or do more than one session in a week.

There are 4 weeks’ of resources:

  1. Mary’s Story - Joy in Connection

  2. Mary and Joseph’s Story - Joy in Trusting

  3. The Shepherd’s Story - Joy in Sharing

  4. The Wisemen - Joy in Following

Each week includes:

  • A suggested Liturgical Greeting

  • An ‘I wonder’ activity

  • A Bible passage activity

  • A video explanation

  • Reflective and practical actions

  • A couple of prayers

  • Liturgical Ending

Alongside this collective worship resource there are further church resources for adults and children on the theme of The Joy of Christmas produced by the Church of England.

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