Year 1 RE
Assembly
To end our topic about feeling sorry, Year 1 performed an assembly for their parents and the rest of the school.
We worked hard to incorporate all our learning and ensured we were able to pass on the important message of saying sorry. Every child was given an important role saying lines, acting, dancing or writing prayers. We all thoroughly enjoyed celebrating with everybody and showing off what we had learnt. |
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Year of Mercy
This year the Catholic Church is celebrating a year of Mercy and on Friday the 4th March we celebrated a day of Mercy.
To introduce this Father David told us the story of The Prodigal Son, which tells us that no matter what we do, we will always be forgiven.
Year 1 thought about this story and discussed the things that we have done wrong during our lives.
We wrote these into a sorry prayer and put them into water.
Later we were able to see that our sins had been washed away as the writing on our prayers had disappeared.
To introduce this Father David told us the story of The Prodigal Son, which tells us that no matter what we do, we will always be forgiven.
Year 1 thought about this story and discussed the things that we have done wrong during our lives.
We wrote these into a sorry prayer and put them into water.
Later we were able to see that our sins had been washed away as the writing on our prayers had disappeared.
Change
To begin our topic about ‘change’ Year 1 were very lucky to have a retreat afternoon with Francis.
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The topic is linked to the Special time of Lent and explores how Christians aim to change to be more like Jesus. We began the afternoon by looking at ourselves in the mirror and describing what physical features we could see.Francis then explained that Jesus and God do not look at our appearance but have a ‘magical mirror’ which sees us deep inside and shows our kindness. We all drew a picture of ourselves doing something wrong and needed to say sorry.
We stuck this on a mirror and then completed a picture of us being kind. Individually we stuck this over our previous picture to show the image that Jesus sees and how our kindness can take away the bad. As part of our reflection we thought about how we could change during Lent and ensure we were being like the kind picture. |
Advent Reflection Day
Monday 30th November was our Advent Reflection Day in school.
We had a lovely, calm and reflective day praying, creating art work on an Advent theme,
making our class Advent Wreath and completing work about the symbolism and meanings
behind the parts of the wreath.
At the end of the day the whole school came back together to share our work, our thoughts
and our prayers.
We had a lovely, calm and reflective day praying, creating art work on an Advent theme,
making our class Advent Wreath and completing work about the symbolism and meanings
behind the parts of the wreath.
At the end of the day the whole school came back together to share our work, our thoughts
and our prayers.
Hinduism
As part of Hinduism week we looked at the story of Rama and Sita. We were able to sequence the story and retell it in our own words. At the end of the story the city celebrates Sita’s return with lights. This is why Diwali is the festival of light. To celebrate in our own way we all made a lantern.
‘The story was great! Ravana had 10 heads and 20 arms!’ – Theo
‘I really enjoyed making the lantern and I am going to make more at home’ - Summer
‘The story was great! Ravana had 10 heads and 20 arms!’ – Theo
‘I really enjoyed making the lantern and I am going to make more at home’ - Summer
Baptism Retreat
As part of our RE topic ‘belonging’ we were lucky to have Gabie in to help us reflect. During our retreat we looked carefully at all the signs and symbols of baptism. We lit candles, washed our hands to represent the washing away of our sins and wrote baptismal messages. We really enjoyed our day and it helped us to really understand the important ceremony.
Baptism
On Tuesday October 13th, Key Stage 1 and Foundation 2 had a trip over to Church to take part in the re-enactment of a Baptism ceremony with Father David.
All year groups are studying Baptism at the moment as part of their Come and See RE topics and watching and taking part in a ceremony helps bring the Sacrament to life for the children.
All year groups are studying Baptism at the moment as part of their Come and See RE topics and watching and taking part in a ceremony helps bring the Sacrament to life for the children.
Families
As part of our first RE topic ‘families’ we have been thinking about our own families and how we show love. We compared this to Jesus’ family and the events in his life.
During our topic we were very lucky to have a retreat morning where we were able to focus on our families and reflect.
We began our day by looking at Jesus and discussing the events in his family’s life, we completed role plays of these different events and the looked at psalms.
After, we decided to write a letter to our own family to say thank you to them.
During our topic we were very lucky to have a retreat morning where we were able to focus on our families and reflect.
We began our day by looking at Jesus and discussing the events in his family’s life, we completed role plays of these different events and the looked at psalms.
After, we decided to write a letter to our own family to say thank you to them.