Blog by Tag: Catholic Life

We have been using watercolours to paint our Spring Flowers, linked to our topic Desert to Garden and looking at new life. What beautiful pictures. 

Spring walks are so important for many areas of our learning and understanding.  We have been on a few spring walks over the last few weeks to see how the environment around us is changing and plants are growing.  This afternoon we also visited our prayer garden to thank God for the sunshine,…

After a glorious spring walk, nursery children went to play on the large field this afternoon.  After a rehearsal for their Easter Reflection in church Year 6 joined nursery for a play on the field. Well done Year 6 for being fantastic role models for our youngest pupils.  

After Mrs McIntyre using small world figures to act out the story of Palm Sunday in class, many children chose to recreate the story in their play.  One child described her gathering of the crowd like a ‘parade’ and the children told the story singing ‘Hosanna, pretending to wave palm leaves at…

This week the children have been listening to the story of Palm Sunday. They reenacted Jesus travelling through Jerusalem on a donkey with crowds waving palm leaves shouting 'Hosanna'. The children also used the figures in our golden box to retell the story. 

Children from Year 3 came to this afternoon’s curriculum governors meeting to talk about their learning in Religious Education.  Mrs McIntyre and Mrs Sothern conducted a pupil book study and the children shared their knowledge and understanding.  Governors commented that they had learned new…

As part of our topic work on Desert to Garden, today we talked about, and made a Lenten Promise.  We discussed how spring is a special time for growing and that Lent is also a special time to grow. To grow as a person and be more like Jesus.  The children talked about how they could grow during…

This week the children have made pancakes as we have been learning about Lent and how this is a special time to prepare for Easter. 

We had lots of fun on our pyjama day raising money for our school.

We have been talking about how we are welcomed into school, our homes and our church. How we say good morning to each other, wear smiles on our faces and take care of one another. We talked about how we are part of Jesus’ family and how Jesus welcomes Everyone. We made banners decorated with our…

Today we visited English Martyrs’s church to see the crib with the three Kings now in attendance.  

The Glory Be Prayer is a traditional prayer of the Catholic faith.  For children in Early Years, they experience the prayer being said out loud.  The key message of the prayer for children of this age are the words ‘Glory Be’, which is a sign of praise, a thank-you to God for sending his Son.  Our…