Blog by Tag: Catholic Life

In Nursery A we have been demonstrating our love and care through role play.  We have been caring for our ‘babies’ by making sure they are fed, clothed and well looked after.  We have names for our dolls so that they are treated with dignity and respect.  We talk about why we need to look after…

It has been wonderful to watch friendships being created and developed in the first few weeks of nursery.  We are learning to get along, help one another and develop our sharing skills.  We are putting our faith into action, demonstrating how we love God and one another. 

Throughout the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope, we have been exploring different themes. Each school in our local cluster of Catholic schools has produced a ‘prayer focus box’ on a different theme.  The boxes have been passed between the cluster schools throughout the Jubilee Year and to…

The children have been learning about the Bible. We looked inside our golden box and found our special book. The children all held the Bible and we talked how it has lots of wonderful stories about God and Jesus. We also talked about why we make the sign of the cross when we say our prayers. The…

This week has been all about new experiences for our nursery children.  They have been discovering the nursery environment and all it has to offer, whilst making new friends.  

We had a lovely afternoon tea celebration for our end of year party yesterday.  The children enjoyed making their own hats in preparation.  We also had dancing and party games in the hall.  We are ready for Reception in September!

Today Nursery A and B joined together for a picnic in the sunshine.  We have been reading the book The Sea Saw and this week, in relation to the text we have been planning a picnic.  We are looking forward to our beach trip next week too. The children enjoyed tasty banana oat bars that they made…

We have been working hard to maintain our garden in nursery.  We have a mixture of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables growing.  Look carefully at the labelled pebbles to see the selection including, sunflowers, beetroot, lettuce, onions, radishes, cress, sweetcorn, courgettes and strawberries.…

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.