Collective worship - pray with colouring
The children enjoyed their daily collective worship today by gathering together and taking part in tactile prayer. Tactile prayer such as gentle colouring has a soothing quality that promotes a sense of stillness, creating the conditions for a more reflective and receptive prayer experience.…
Year 6 Leaver’s Mass 2026
On Monday morning, year 6 celebrated our first ever outdoor leavers’ mass in our prayer garden. Parents, parishioners and staff were invited to join the celebration.
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…
Jesus Is Our Friend
This week we have started our new RE topic, 'Dialogue and Encounter'. Today the children have been talking about Jesus's friends and remembering different Bible stories where Jesus showed kindness to others. We placed our photographs with Jesus and His friends to show how we are all friends of…
Nursery Visit Church
The children have visited our Church to look at the beautiful Easter garden. We talked about Good Friday and Easter Sunday and the children remembered how Jesus died on the cross then rose again. The children spoke about what they could see and we said a thank you prayer to God for giving us…
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…
Easter Reflection 2026
We held a wonderful Easter Reflection in church with all of Year 3 to 6 taking part, through prayer, song, drama and spoken word. It was an opportunity to reflect on the love Jesus has for us all and the calling to be part of his family, by following his path and example as Christians and…
RE Curriculum Governors Meeting
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…
Retelling the Christmas Story in Nursery B
Understanding the World, Communication & Language, Literacy, Physical Development
The children are reading the Christmas Story and learning about baby Jesus being born in a stable. Outdoors they worked together to make a stable using wood, leaves and pinecones. We then added Angel Gabriel,…
The Christmas Story in Nursery B
We have been reading the beginning of The Christmas Story when Angel Gabriel told Mary she was going to have a baby and his name would be Jesus. The children have re-enacted the story and talked about how Mary may have felt. This week we talked about the meaning of love and created ‘hanging…
I Spy Beautiful Things
Last week we read the first story in the Bible about God creating our beautiful world. Today we decided to go for a walk around our school grounds to look for some of the beautiful things God has given us. The children identified flowers, plants, trees, leaves and grass as…