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

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.

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.

Winner winner Christmas dinner!

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