Ooo, the experiment sounds fun - do you have any details please?

Die Hard is my favourite Christmas film - along with Muppet Christmas Carol.

Winston's Wish is a really good site and they have offered training in the past - worth a look?

There's also a lot of other things on Andy's site - definitely worth a look 

This year in our school, pupils will attend one assembly each week which should include an act of CW. The other 4 days they are in form time. Form tutors know they are supposed to lead/facilitate an act of worship in the classroom and they have received considerable amounts of inset time to support them in this. I also provide a prayer for each day. In all honesty, many do not do prayer at all, some do it sometimes and a few are brilliant and creative. I imagine this is a similar pattern in many schools. In our lest Section 48 inspection the chap commented that much of our CW is 'done to pupils rather than by them'. I think this stung our head who had only been in post for one week at the time. So, I have been asked to lead a twilight inset next week (nothing like giving someone time is there!) for 27 KS3 form tutors and HOYs on 'Developing pupil participation in collective worship'.
In most forms, particularly the lower school, there are lovely individuals who will volunteer to read and there are some who will write prayers with a bit of support. the tricky bit is how to convince staff that they should be allowing/encouraging their pupils to create and/or lead the worship rather than sir or miss simply reading out what I have written. We all know it is easier for us to take that role of adult standing at the front, get the prayer read out and move on but we also know, without inspectors telling us, that it is far from ideal.
I spent much of this afternoon wracking my brains and trawling the net for inspiration. I have come up with a few small ideas but having led numerous insets on CW already these are certainly the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.
What I'd love to know is how much classroom CW in your school is prepared and/or led by pupils, who guides them in its preparation and whether you have any pearls of wisdom I can cast before my audience next week (any apparent oblique reference to our staff being swine is not intentional, apart from the cynical bloke in the english dept!).

Is there any mileage in the ACCE contacting heads directly to encourage them to send their chaplains? I would have little if any chance of getting funding for membership or conference without backing from 'outsiders'.

I had a chat with the nice man on the indoor market. They made up the covers in the colours and fabric we chose, put the inners in and delivered them too. They cost about £11 each but this was some time ago.

We had a pupil panel for our new RE post interviews last week. The deputy had wanted to ask this question in the formal part but the head said no so she asked the pupils to do it instead. They asked the poor candidates what cartoon character they would be and why! Some of the answers were brilliant and some awful but either way I felt sorry for the applicants. Similar questions are around such as which chocolate bar, colour, animal, etc.
BTW, the candidate who gave the best responses to the pupils got the job.

Ah, those halcyon days of Joan Jet and the Blackhearts! Although these stats are rather American, it does make you realise how much young people have changed in so many ways but also how some things stay the same. I wish more people in authority in the Church, , whether official or by virtue of having been in the parish since 1882, could understand this.

Am all 'ashed out' after 10 services today but response from pupils was good even though they had to be there.

Welcome John, I used to find pupils couldn't believe I got paid for doing so much fun stuff  - good job they didn't see all the other parts of the job!

Previously we have had a large voluntary Mass during the last week of term and then upper and lower school assembly/carol services on the last day. With our new head we are considering carols and candles on the last day in a local church for upper school. They will walk from school to church by themselves late-morning, enjoy the service and then be allowed to go home from there. We've yet to decide what to do with the lower years and whether we will still have a Mass.