We had a visit from an RE Storyteller who went through different workshops with Reception, Year 1/2, Year 3, Year 5 and Year 6 about components of the Easter story.
The children were really enjoyed the stories and asked lots of questions.
Children from KS1 and KS2 took a wintry Christmas walk to St Nicholas’ Church this morning. Once there, the children sung some of their favourite Christmas songs in this beautiful environment and talked with Rev. Paul about how Christians celebrate Christmas.
Rev. Paul was very impressed with some of the questions relating to the church itself.
All of the children were so impeccably behaved and are a real credit to our school!
Thank you Rev Paul.
To mark the end of their Easter topic, Year 6 have created some wonderful Easter artworks.
KS2 (Year 3-6) enjoyed a wonderful walk to St Nicholas Church this morning.
Once there, each year group sang a Christmas carol they had been practising over the last few weeks. Rev. Paul also told the children all about Advent and chose a lucky Year 3 child to come and light the candles on the Advent wreath.
Rev. Paul was really impressed with the children’s knowledge of Advent already and after that the children asked him such insightful questions about the church.
At the end of the service Rev. Paul blessed us all with a lovely Christmas prayer.
All of the children were beautifully behaved and represented our school incredibly! Well done KS2!
Each year group posed a question to Rev. Paul relating to their current topic questions for R.E. Watch the video below to see his answers.
Look out for a special guest appearance from Maisie the dog too!
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On the run up to Christmas, Year 6 have been delving deep into the Birth of Jesus accounts in the gospels. We discovered that only two of the gospels, Matthew and Luke, had nativity accounts and both held a different perceptive.
Year 6 have been learning about our wonderful World during RE lessons by answering the question, ‘Why should people with a religious faith care about the environment?’ We researched the creation stories from Christianity and Hinduism and understood the importance our world is to our lives. We were interested to find out about the Reduce Reuse Recycle campaign and made a logo out of recyclable materials. We watched a short clip showcasing our wonderful world, which made us fully appreciate all the amazing things that we have on our earth. We studied the artist Andy Goldsworthy as his art specialises in using natural materials from our wonderful world. We designed images in his style.
For more information on Andy Goldsworthy you can visit –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
For our Learning Challenge Curriculum, we studied the gospels to find out what they told us about the birth of Jesus. At the end of this topic we designed two Christmas cards from Matthew and Luke’s perspectives. Here are some of our designs:
Thursday 5th December KS2 visited St Nicholas Church in Boldon. The children were told about the history of the church; the architecture of the church, showing us how we knew it had been extended, the meaning of the stained glass windows and about the history of St Nicholas himself. The priest then used two of our pupils to explain the meaning of Christingle – Jesus the light of the world. He explained how the christingle is made up and what each part represents;
- An orange, representing the world
- A candle pushed into the centre of the orange, then lit, representing Jesus Christ as the light of the world
- A red ribbon wrapped around the orange representing the blood of christ
- Dried fruits and/or sweets skewered on cocktail sticks pushed into the orange, representing the fruits of the earth and the four seasons.
To finish the children sang Christmas songs!
The children are learning about different religions and how people show care as they understand different religions and have respect for one another.
In our Learning Challenge this term we will be learning the difference between Passover and Lent.
Today we have been learning about Passover which is a Jewish celebration.
The children enjoyed Mazot and juice (wine).
