Blog by Tag: RE

Last week we read the first story in the Bible about God creating our beautiful world. Today we decided to go for a walk around our school grounds to look for some of the beautiful things God has given us. The children identified flowers, plants, trees, leaves and grass as…

Building upon our knowledge of the Bible being a special book, we listened to the first story in the Bible and then heard it retold us in our golden box.  The children were mesmerised by the light for light and dark and understood that the cloths represented the sea and land.  We learned that God…

It has been wonderful to watch friendships being created and developed in the first few weeks of nursery.  We are learning to get along, help one another and develop our sharing skills.  We are putting our faith into action, demonstrating how we love God and one another. 

Throughout the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope, we have been exploring different themes. Each school in our local cluster of Catholic schools has produced a ‘prayer focus box’ on a different theme.  The boxes have been passed between the cluster schools throughout the Jubilee Year and to…

This week has been all about new experiences for our nursery children.  They have been discovering the nursery environment and all it has to offer, whilst making new friends.  

Year One Designing Crosses

This week, Year One have been learning how Christians around the world make the sign of the cross.  We looked at different crosses and crucifixes and thought about the images and symbols on them before designing our own crosses.

Year 1 Our Jubilee Pledge

We have been talking about our Jubilee Pledge in Year 1. We have decided that we will be thinking carefully about the difference between wants and needs.

Do we really need another toy? Do we really need more clothes? Do we really want more sweets? 

‘Sunday should be kept as a day of rest.’

On the playground, we debated this statement. 

The children argued either for or against putting forward their ideas and views on this statement.

Today we visited Church and looked at the Easter display showing the cross and Jesus’s tomb. This reminded us of the different bible stories we have read about Jesus throughout our topic ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. We also looked at the baptismal font and talked about our own baptisms.

Together…

In nursery, as part of our RE topic we visited church to talk about how the parish family gathers there to pray and worship God.  We had already talked about how we belong to our family at home and our school family.  

Today we had a beautiful end of topic celebration for our nursery and reception children with the parents of nursery children invited.  It was a fantastic turn out and the children loved sharing their learning with all those present.  The children were so respectful during times of prayer and…

Some of our collective worship ambassadors and prayer buddies had been creating designs for special Jars of Hope for each class in school.  We are celebrating the Jubilee Year this year with the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hop’.  The jars will be kept on the prayer focus table in class and pupils are…