Tag: Religious Education

Year 5 enjoyed celebrating their class saint’s day on Thursday. They learnt all about the life of St. Patrick, how St. Patrick’s day is celebrated and had a special visit from Mrs. Smith who shared all her Irish heritage with us.

Our class Saint is St Joseph so to celebrate St Joseph’s Day tomorrow, we have been learning all about why St Joseph is such an inspiration, about traditions around the world and we even tated some food traditionally eaten on St Joseph’s Day. 
 

After learning about what happens in a church, Reception visited our church next door, St Mary’s. We looked at the different statues, the altar and talked about how the font was used for christenings. The children also made the sign of the cross using the holy water. We loved having a look around…

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten period leading up to Easter, when Jesus died and was resurrected. The ashes symbolize both death and repentance. During this period, we say sorry for our sins, because Christ died for us.  We gathered together in school today to receive our ashes and…

This week year 1 have been learning about mental health.  What mental health means; how we can be kind to ourselves and others.  We made some ‘Kindness Cups’ and helped to fill our classmates cups with kind words. We all really enjoyed this. It was a great feeling to read and listen to what our…

In Reception we were learning about St Bridget on her feast day on the 1st February. The children found out that she was very kind and that she helped others and she was also known as St Bridget from Ireland. They then created her special cloak making their own piece of patchwork art. What a…

Today we visited our parish church St. Mary’s.  We have been learning about the signs and symbols of Baptism.  In church we took part in a role play. We were able to recall the five signs and symbols of Baptism.  Today we found out about the significance of the oil of Chrism and its importance.…

Year 3 wore red and joined the rest of Key Stage 2, on the yard, at 11 o’clock for a 2 minute silence to mark Remembrance Day. During the afternoon we created some lovely poppy fields using oil pastels. Lest we forget ! 
 

Year 1 finished off learning about Diwali today.  We created some lights holders to celebrate. It was good fun decorating the cups in bright colours.  When we put the tea lights in we loved how they looked.  We were very excited to take them home to show our families.  The children were able to…

Year 1 were delighted to welcome Neil’s parents in class today.  Sarika and Deepak came to talk about the Hindu celebration of Diwali.  We learnt about Diwali being the festival of light.  The celebration is a joyful one that also celebrates the end of harvest. The children enjoyed learning about…

To complete our month of dedication to Mary Year 1 made their own rosaries.  We learnt how the rosary can be used to help people pray.  We learnt that 10 beads grouped together are called a decade.  We were amazed at how many prayers can be said using one.  It took a lot of concentration making…

On Monday 24th of May, we all marked the National Day of Prayer by praying the Rosary during Mary’s special month of May. We learnt how to pray the Rosary and practiced the prayers whilst praying a decade to offer for those who need our prayers.