Tag: Religious Education

On 19th March the people of Italy honour and give thanks to St. Joseph, the patron Saint of Workers.  As 2021 has been declared the Year of St. Joseph, we too have celebrated St. Joseph.  We all wore red.  As he was a Carpenter, we have built with wood, dressed up as St. Joseph, made models with…

Year 5’s class saint is St. Patrick so we had a wonderful day on 17th March learning all about him. Mrs. Smith told us all a about the celebrations that occur in Ireland on St. Patrick’s day and we were surprised to hear that it is a national holiday on that day! We were also treated to some Irish…

During Lent every time year 5 pray, stop themselves doing something they know they shouldn’t or go out of their way to do something for others they are going to write it down and put it in their Lenten jars. At the end of Lent hopefully they will have a jar of messages to remind them of all the…

Year 2 have been learning about their class saint, Saint David, and celebrating his feast day. They found out about his life and some of the miracles he performed. The children wrote poems about St David as well as creating some artwork based on daffodils.

As part of their work on Lent year 5 thought about something they have done that they were sorry for and wrote it down on one side of the leaf. When they had finished they turned the leaf over and wrote about something good they could do for Lent. In taking part in this activity they turned over a…

Year 2 have been learning about how Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts for 40 days. They found out about the significance of the ashes being placed on the forehead and what Christians do during the period of Lent to prepare for Easter. The children made posters to tell others what Christians…

Year One are taking part in a Kindness Challenge during Lent.  We have decided to try to help others during this time.   The children have created jars or envelopes to put all their acts of kindness into.  When Lent is over they will be able to look back to see just how kind they have been.  We…

Year 4 produced some informative leaflets about the parish.

This week we started the week wearing odd socks! This was to kick start our learning about bullying for anti bullying week! The odd socks told us that it’s ok to be different and to be proud just to be ourselves! Mrs Bear celebrated her big birthday and we helped her to celebrate with lots of…

May is the month of Mary and is traditionally a time when Catholics pray the Rosary together at home. Year 2 learned about what the Rosary is and took part in praying it at home with their families.

Year 3 have been learning about the Mysteries whilst praying the Holy Rosary. 

I hope that this clip is helpful in explaining to your children: How do we pray the Rosary?

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