Blog by Tag: Catholic Life

Year 1 Our Jubilee Pledge

We have been talking about our Jubilee Pledge in Year 1. We have decided that we will be thinking carefully about the difference between wants and needs.

Do we really need another toy? Do we really need more clothes? Do we really want more sweets? 

There were some amazing hair creating on show this crazy hair day!  Thank you for all your support for our PTA.  

Today we visited Church and looked at the Easter display showing the cross and Jesus’s tomb. This reminded us of the different bible stories we have read about Jesus throughout our topic ‘To the Ends of the Earth’. We also looked at the baptismal font and talked about our own baptisms.

Together…

In nursery, as part of our RE topic we visited church to talk about how the parish family gathers there to pray and worship God.  We had already talked about how we belong to our family at home and our school family.  

Our snack table is always a favourite area of nursery.  We encourage independence by children choosing their own healthy snack, taking it to a table to eat, chatting to their friends and adults in nursery and washing up their own dishes afterwards.  

We have tidied up our prayer garden and planted some sunflowers! We can’t wait to watch them grow. The children have been watering them each day.
 

On Sunday it is the feast of the English Martyrs. In class today Y2 found out about the English Martyrs.

There are so many beautiful daisies on our soon to be cut grass around school that the children in Nursery A decided to learn some facts about them and collect as many as possible.  We then used them to create daisy chains and in our provision throughout nursery from creating transient artwork to…

There was so much of the Catholic Life of the school to celebrate today and it was so much fun.  The children from both of our nurseries took part in an Easter Raffle to raise money for Nugent’s Good Shepherd Appeal.  We learned that not everyone would win but that in raising money for charity we…

KS1 End of topic assembly Desert to Garden.

Today the children in Key Stage 2 held an Easter Reflection in church.  The children retold the events leading up to the death of Jesus with respect and emotion.  They sang beautifully and read clearly.  Thank you children for helping us to prepare for Easter in such a deeply spiritual way.…

Today we had a beautiful end of topic celebration for our nursery and reception children with the parents of nursery children invited.  It was a fantastic turn out and the children loved sharing their learning with all those present.  The children were so respectful during times of prayer and…