Year 1 Church Visit
Year 1 Church Visit
Today Year 1 went to Church to look at several key features of our Church. We looked at the lectern, altar, crucifix, font, tabernacle, stained glass windows, pews, holy water and donation boxes.
Good Shepherd Mass
On Thursday, some children from Year 5 went to celebrate Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral. The mass was led by Archbishop John Sherrington and was to celebrate all the work done in raising money for Nugent Care.
Nursery Visit to Church as Friends of Jesus
As part of our RE topic, ‘Dialogue and Encounter’ we visited church. We listened to a Gospel reading and learned about how the church family gather together to pray and to celebrate the Eucharist. We talked about how were are all friends of Jesus and how to follow his example. The children…
Special Messages of Love
In our topic ‘Dialogue and Encounter’ we have been learning about our neighbours near and far. We have learned about Peter and Paul who travelled to tell everyone about Jesus. Today we tried to be like Peter and Paul and spread the news the ‘Jesus loves everyone - Jesus loves you!’ We drew a…
Classroom Prayer
We are enjoying our special time spent together each day in prayer. The children choose items to set up a focus area before we spend time together.
Retreat Day
Last week, Y5 had an excellent time at St Joseph’s Prayer Centre.
The children took part in a range of workshops celebrating differences and recognising the qualities in each other.
Setting our butterflies free!
After weeks of watching and waiting our caterpillars emerged from their chrysalis’ as beautiful butterflies. Today it was time to release them. We were so excited, just look at our faces!
Building a church
Today one of our nursery children came to tell me that she had built a church. What an amazing creation! She showed me all the people and told me that they were at Mass. We discussed that the people were parishioners and that we call them the congregation when they are gathered in prayer.…
Learning about the Holy Spirit in Nursery A
In RE this week we have been exploring further the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit. We have listened to the story and used scarves, ribbons and bubbles to explore the feeling of wind and thinking about how Jesus’ friends must have felt. The Holy Spirit feels like the wind, makes us feel…
Gardening club fun
Last term’s gardening club all left with their own pansy to grow on in their own gardens. Thank you for helping to make our school environment beautiful.
The Last Supper and Good Friday
Using small world play, we told the story of Jesus’ last supper with his friends. We discussed the words of Jesus to do this to remember him and how many people remember Jesus this way at Mass. We also talked about Good Friday and how it was a sad day but a good day. After looking at hot cross…
Retelling the Story of Palm Sunday
We made palm leaves in our key person groups and used small world figures to retell the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem, a story that we remember on Palm Sunday. Different groups of children chose to recreate this story during their role-play throughout the few weeks leading up to our…