Year 1 explore the Jewish Festival of Sukkot
Today, Year 1 heard about the Jewish harvest festival. This is called Sukkot. Jews build and decorate a sukkah, which means hut and spend as much time as possible in there. They eat, pray and even sleep in the shelter to remember when Moses led the Jews through the wilderness. They give thanks to…
Year 2 Tabernacle
Today we looked at the story of Moses and the Tabernacle. We wrote some prayers and sat quietly sat in our own Tabernacle.
Y3/4 Spirituality morning
This morning in Y3 & 4 we explored the theme of “treasures. At the beginning we came up with lots of ideas linked to treasure like gold, jewels and pirates! We then did three different activities to explore the treasures we have in our lives. We thought about different places that are special to…
Year 3&4 Spirituality Morning
This morning in Y3 & 4 we explored the theme of “treasures. At the beginning we came up with lots of ideas linked to treasure like gold, jewels and pirates! We then did three different activities to explore the treasures we have in our lives. We thought about different places that are special to…
Year 5 and 6 Spirituality Morning
Year 6 joined Year 5 this morning for our Spirituality Morning, where we spent time thinking about the symbol of the cross as represented in different countries around the world. We looked at the Jerusalem cross, depicting four small crosses around a main cross. We learnt that this can represent…
Victory
A very big thank you to Mr Weston and Mr Brown for joining us in R.E. today. They came to talk to us about how Christians believe that Easter is a celebration of Victory. They even attempted to create new life. They were of course unsuccessful but it was a great way to reinforce that only God…
Y6 Explore Eucharist
This afternoon Y6 braved the rain to meet Rev. Rebecca at church. She gave us a very warm welcome and took us through the Eucharist order of service. She explained how and why Christians celebrate Eucharist and the significance of all the items involved. This has helped us to see more links…
Passover 2024
In R.E. Y6 have been learning about how God used Moses to lead the Jewish people out of slavery in Egypt. Just as Jesus did, Jews today still remember this significant event in their history, through the festival of Passover. Today we had fun re-creating a Passover Seder and were able to…
Year 4 Prayers
In their RE lesson, Year 4 went outside to appreciate God’s wonderful world. We thought about what we were grateful and thankful for. Next, we wrote some prayers to God. Once they were laminated, we hung them on the railings for other children to share.
NISCU visit Y6
Debbie and Abbie came to teach us about the life journey of St.Paul, who our school is named after. We found out how meeting God changed the direction of his life completely. We saw how his life journey contained trials, persecution and triumphs and looked at how he was able to overcome these with…
Getting ready for Easter
We are waiting for Easter. We are making links between new life, spring and our animal topic.
Passover 2023
Today Year 6 re-enacted a Passover meal. As we tried each of the symbolic foods we recalled the story of the Exodus. We tried to imagine what a Jewish family might be feeling and the significance it holds for them. You can probably tell by the photos who tried the bitter herbs; which remind Jewish…