Blog by Tag: RE

In year 5 we have been reading the story of the Exodus, when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt.

We used drama freeze frames to retell the story.

This week we are thinking all about the nativity story and how it shows us that God fulfilled his promise to Mary.

We had to re-tell the story in different ways. Some of us had to create comic strips and some of us had to create news reports!

Check out our newsreports in this video. Miss…

This week is the first week of advent, which is Hope. We looked at Matthew 12:17-21 “And in his name, the nations will put his hope” and discussed what this scripture may mean.

We joined in with a song all about hope, this was a really joyful, uplifting song, which showed us that when we put…

Today we learnt all about Joseph and how angel Gabriel visited him to tell him about Mary having a baby. We realised that he really had to trust in God as it was such a scary, unknown and unusual thing for him to do. We went outside to complete a trust exercise with our partner - we were able to…

In RE this term we have been learning about people in the Bible who had to trust in God. This week we spent time learning about Mary and exploring the story of when Gabriel visited her to tell her all about having baby Jesus. We thought lots about how Mary would have felt, why God chose her, why…

Year 1 went to visit St Francis church to have an explore and see what signs and symbols we could find. We learnt about what things were called and what they are for. We then used this knowledge to create our own churches back in class. We worked as part of a team with a special job, just like our…

Father Kevin was overjoyed when he found out that Year 3 were learning about the story of Zacchaeus. He was so excited that he came into class to see what they have learnt. The children loved answering questions and explaining what they know. They are looking forward to their next visit from…

We had lots of fun acting out the story from the Bible where Jesus calls the disciples to become fishers of men!! 

Father Kevin visited Year 5 this morning to share his experience of meeting Chris Lubbe, who was Nelson Mandela's bodyguard, as this links to our topic of Apartheid in South Africa He shared Chris Lubbe's life story with us, and then we discussed our opinions and feelings towards the events in…

Today in RE, the children role played the birth of Jesus. They took on the roles of Mary, Joseph, Angel Gabriel, the inn keeper and the shepherd. Their reenactment was very captivating and they were able to answer questions about the key biblical figures. Great addition to our advent…

This week's focus for collective worship is the poor. As a class we discussed who the poor are and what they may be in need of. On Tuesday it was World Toilet day and we linked our collective worship them to it. The children came up with some beautiful prayers asking God to help those who don't…

In Year 5, we enjoyed a variety of activities to understand and celebrate Diwali: creating scratch pad art work with rangoli patterns and symbols linked to Diwali; making our own diyas out of clay and using stop-start animation software on the iPads to re-tell the story of Rama and…