Harvest themed Prayer and Liturgy in Reception Class

Today the Eco Council led an assembly to launch the ‘Cut Your Carbon’ campaign.

Remembrance day in Reception Class

CAFOD Colour Run

Stewardship of God’s Creation in Y6

Today Y6 went on a nature walk to celebrate the jubilee year and their hopes for God’s world in the future. They collected items from the school grounds and created their own version of the jubilee badge.

Jubilee celebration

Year 5 took part in a Prayer and liturgy, celebrating the Jubilee as we become pilgrims of hope.

Exploring God’s creation in Reception Class

Y6 prayer and liturgy

Today Y6 welcomed their parents and families to join us in worship. The theme was unconditional love. The children enjoyed planning and leading the worship and it was lovely to reflect together on what unconditional love from God means in our lives.

Prayer and liturgy

Year 5 took part in a beautiful Prayer and Liturgy about hopes and dreams.

Artwork celebrating God’s creations

Fairtrade Fortnight

Our new Eco Council have had a busy first half term organising Fairtrade Fortnight. They delivered a whole school assembly on current Fairtrade issues & organised fundraising by selling raffles tickets for our annual Fairtrade hamper. The money raised will support global Fairtrade initiatives to ensure farmers get a fair deal for their goods.

Reception Class Harvest Trail

Mary’s Meals

Today we ate some delicious porridge and made a donation to raise money for Mary’s Meals. We learned how this charity provides children across the world with a warm nutritious mug of porridge each school day to help them stay healthy and increase their ability to learn and grow.

Supporting ‘Mary’s Meals’ in Reception Class

Caring for God’s world

Harvest trail

Y6 took Nursery on a wonderful Harvest trail around our school. We sang, said prayers and gave thanks to God for our Earth and its abundant gifts.

Mission

Year 5 have been learning that we all have a mission, no matter how big or small. They created a mission which they can carry out at school. One group’s mission was to help some year 3 children play tennis.

Mary’s meals

Year 5 enjoyed eating their porridge and learning about the valuable work carried out by Mary’s meals.

Harvest Trail

Year 5 took part in a wonderful Harvest trail across different areas of our school site.

Harvest walk

Year 1 Creation walk

Prayer and Liturgy

Today we chose to worship God outside in nature.

Today we went into our new outdoor Prayer Space for our daily Prayer and Liturgy

Year 5 Remembrance celebration

Year 5 led a thoughtful celebration of the word about Remembrance, sharing reflections, poems, and prayers to honour those who have served. We were also joined by our friend of the school, Pipe Major James Axon, who performed beautifully on the yard, creating a moving and memorable tribute for everyone

Celebration of the word

Year 5 took part in a remembrance celebration of the word.

Anthony Walker Foundation

Year 5 took part in a fantastic work shop delivered by the Anthony Walker Foundation. We are an anti-racist school!

A very special workshop

Y6 were very excited to welcome back a member of the Anthony Walker Foundation. We talked about racism and what it means to be anti-racist. The children produced some wonderful work to reflect on the messages they heard.

In RE, nursery learned about Angel Gabriel visiting Mary to share the special news about baby Jesus. They then created their own beautiful angels using art and craft materials! ✨👼🎨

Jubilee Year Celebration day

Today we marked the end of the church’s Jubilee Year with a day of celebration and reflection. We started the day reviewing what we had done all year to promote the Jubilee’s message of Hope. The whole school was decorated with balloons and streamers in the Jubilee colours and we all wrote postcards with messages of Hope to share with our families. Our lovely cook even made cupcakes for us to take home. We ended the day with a Celebration of the Word, with our Faith ambassadors taking a leading role.What a day!

Jubilee Celebration Day Y6

Y6 really enjoyed celebrating everything they have achieved this jubilee year. We remembered our pilgrimages of hope; wore our house colours to reflect the jubilee badge and created bunting and postcards. We even finished the day off with yummy cupcakes!

Celebration of the word

Nursery – Advent and heart promises

In RE, the children learned about Advent and waiting for Jesus by exploring an Advent calendar. We talked about waiting and trying our best, and began our heart promises — starting with Hope. These are now displayed on our RE wall, with Peace, Joy and Love to come.

Fellowship

Today Y6 explored how to live in fellowship with one another. They created paper doll chains and discussed what it means to live and work together following Jesus’ example.

Advent – waiting in hopeful expectation

Y6 have filled their Advent calendar with prayers, acts of service and devotions. We will patiently take turns each day as we wait in hope during this season.

Advent Trail – Nursery and Year 6

This morning Nursery and Year 6 children took part in a wonderful Advent Trail around the school grounds. Along the way we sang hymns and listened to scripture readings. We ended the trail in Forest School, where we were greeted by Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, Angel Gabriel, the Wise Men and the Shepherds.

Advent Trail

KS1 Nativity

Advent trail

Thank you to the Y6 children who took a lead part in the Advent trail. They had a wonderful time teaching the younger children about the Nativity and guiding them in their worship.

Reception Class Nativity

We are so proud of our wonderful Reception Class for such a fantastic performance today!

Advent Trail

Year 5 and Reception class took part in a wonderful, imersive Advent trail. Year 6 did a fantastic job leading it and it and it really brought this important liturgical season alive for all the children involved.

Planning Celebration of the Word

During our Faith Ambassador meeting this week, Key Stage 2 pupils worked together to plan a Celebration of the Word. They used sources from CAFOD and wrote their own prayer.

Christmas card making in Reception Class

Winner winner Christmas dinner!

We hope you have a blessed Christmas and a peaceful New Year. From Y6

Raising money to help others

Epiphany

Y6 celebrated Epiphany in class today by guiding the 3 kings to Jesus. They followed God’s light to the manger.

Whole School Prayer and Liturgy to mark the feast of Epiphany

Celebrating the Epiphany feast day in Reception Class when the magi (3 wise men) came to visit Jesus.

The three kings

Year 5 delivered the three kings to the nativity scene on the Epiphany.

Epiphany artwork

Nursery – Learning about the Wise Men

In RE, Nursery children learned about the Wise Men and their journey. They enjoyed dressing up, acting out the story, and creating Magi pictures using shapes.

Curiosity Celebration of the Word

Today we invited our parents to worship with us. We heard about how Jesus was curious to learn more about God and how we can foster and nurture our own curiosity in God too.

Developing our ‘green fingers’ in Reception Class

Reception Class have been lucky to take part in a series of ‘grow with us’ sessions led by the Food for Thought initiative. This week we grew our own bean plants and are looking forward to developing the school gardens over the coming weeks.

Our end of topic celebration

Y6 planned and delivered a beautiful Celebration of the Word in our prayer garden to mark the end of our ‘Sources’ work. They wrote prayers, shared Bible readings and reflected on their new knowledge and growth.

Candles class artwork

A visit from the charity Mary’s Meals

We leant about how the money we raised during our porridge day helped to deliver life-changing school meals to children living in some of the world’s poorest communities.

Mary’s Meals

Y6 had a wonderful session today learning more about the wonderful work Mary’s Meals does feeding 3 million children daily across the world.

Our School Council led an informative assembly to mark Children’s Mental Health week

This year’s theme is ‘This is my place’. We talked about supporting each other to feel like we belong. We also took part in a whole school mindfulness session.

Supporting our mental health in Reception class

Year 4 Celebration of the Word

Today Year 4 invited their parents to join them in their daily Celebration of the Word. The theme was trust and we heard how we should always trust in the Lord and do good.

The call of the disciples (Luke 5:1-11)

We shared our love by inviting our friends to share food with us, just like Jesus did.

Our Prayers

Celebrating Mothers Day in Reception Class

Roleplay of The Last Supper

The Last Supper artwork

Making Easter cards for our families to celebrate the symbol of new life.

We learnt all about Easter traditions in Poland

Today with invited one of our Polish parents into Reception class to teach us all about Polish Easter traditions. We loved the beautifully colourful Polish palms and learnt all about what goes into a polish Easter basket.

Crucifixion artwork

We used our IPads to create beautiful artwork to remember how Jesus died on the cross for us all.

Enjoying a traditional Easter treat for our snack

We have been learning all about the Easter Story in Reception class and enjoyed sampling some traditional Hot Cross Buns for snack today.

Garden of Gethsemane.

Year 4 and 5 delivered a beautiful Celebration of the Word about the betrayl of Jesus.

Our Big Lent Walk

The sun came out this morning for our Big Lent Walk. Thank you to everyone who donated to support this wonderful fundraiaing event for CAFOD.