Blog by Tag: Catholic Life

This week the children have been listening to the story of Palm Sunday. They reenacted Jesus travelling through Jerusalem on a donkey with crowds waving palm leaves shouting 'Hosanna'. The children also used the figures in our golden box to retell the story. 

Children from Year 3 came to this afternoon’s curriculum governors meeting to talk about their learning in Religious Education.  Mrs McIntyre and Mrs Sothern conducted a pupil book study and the children shared their knowledge and understanding.  Governors commented that they had learned new…

As part of our topic work on Desert to Garden, today we talked about, and made a Lenten Promise.  We discussed how spring is a special time for growing and that Lent is also a special time to grow. To grow as a person and be more like Jesus.  The children talked about how they could grow during…

This week the children have made pancakes as we have been learning about Lent and how this is a special time to prepare for Easter. 

We had lots of fun on our pyjama day raising money for our school.

We have been talking about how we are welcomed into school, our homes and our church. How we say good morning to each other, wear smiles on our faces and take care of one another. We talked about how we are part of Jesus’ family and how Jesus welcomes Everyone. We made banners decorated with our…

Today we visited English Martyrs’s church to see the crib with the three Kings now in attendance.  

The Glory Be Prayer is a traditional prayer of the Catholic faith.  For children in Early Years, they experience the prayer being said out loud.  The key message of the prayer for children of this age are the words ‘Glory Be’, which is a sign of praise, a thank-you to God for sending his Son.  Our…

The children were busy this morning making vegetable and egg muffins.   We tried them out in our woodland area this afternoon.  They weren’t our most popular product but lots of children tried them and English Martyrs Soup has been requested again for next week - unexpected food hit of the…

Year 3 spent time visiting church to see the Nativity. We took the opportunity to pray, reflect and be thankful for the wonderful Christmas we enjoyed.

Year 2 visited church today to see the crib. 

We visited to church to see the crib and the three wise men visiting baby Jesus.  We talked about how the 3 kings are also called ‘The Magi’ and we spoke about the importance of the star that they followed to find baby Jesus.  One of our little boys suggested we sing the ‘Little Baby Jesus’ song…