Our Church

Rowde Primary Academy and the Church of St Matthew's, Rowde, have deep connections which reflect the history of the school as a key part of the village. Now we are able to, we are going back to the church as a whole academy for worships at Harvest, Christmas, Easter and for the Leavers’ service at the end of the year. The church presents Y6 leavers with a Scripture Union book. Members of the church often volunteer at school and the Open the Book team presents Bible stories twice a month, with children acting the main characters. We also take children to the Church to enrich teaching and learning of Christianity in RE.

Our Church currently has an interregnum, though we actively involve our Open the Book volunteers in school decisions and we have one volunteer from the congregation, Frances Hall, who sits in with our Academy Council meetings and is our main contact to ensure we can still have strong connections with our Church, in spite of there not currently being a rector.

Previously, the rector worked closely with the academy to choose our vision of 'Learn-Grow-Love', which is underpinned by Jesus’ mustard seed parable: from the smallest seeds grow the greatest shrubs (Mt13v31-32). We also worked with our rector to develop our six Christian values: Respect, Optimism, Wisdom, Determination, Enthusiasm and Love.  In the last academic year, Frances Hall and our Academcy Council worked with the school to connect Bible stories to each of these values.