Events with the Church

On Wednesday 19th October, we went up to church in our classes to enjoy some prayer spaces that Rev Julie and Kate (our new youth worker) had set up for us.

The focus was on the Lord’s Prayer and there was a station for each section of the prayer.

One of the stations was about forgiveness, linking with the part where we pray for forgiveness for our sins and help to forgive those who hurt us. Part of the activity was ‘Fizzy Forgiveness’ and the children used vitamin tablets in water to imagine their sins or the sins of others ‘fizzing away’ and being forgotten about.

They also drew round their hands and wrote something they are thankful for on each finger and enjoyed focusing on ‘give us our daily bread’ by thinking of all the food they are thankful for!

It was a really lovely time to reflect on the different parts of the Lord’s Prayer and why it is a great model prayer for us to learn.

A very big thank you to Rev Julie and Kate for all the time and effort they put into creating the stations.

On Friday 25th June, we all gathered outside the front of the school to officially open our beautiful new Prayer Space. The money for the prayer space was kindly donated by Rev Julie from the Church School Trust and Mr Gray (our Site Manager) built this incredible shelter for our whole school community to use as a space of reflection and prayer. Mrs Carpenter, with the help of some great designs from the children, painted the mural on the inside with a Psalm recognising the greatness of God along the ceiling. We are so thankful to so many people for contributing money and their time towards creating this wonderful space and invite you all to use it whenever you like!

Thank you so much to all those parents and members of our community who braved the rain to join us in pausing for a moment to appreciate this new space we are so thankful for.

This week, we were all able to visit the HOPE lettering in the church yard in our bubbles to hang our prayers of hope on. It was a really special time to discuss what we are hopeful for this year and a lot of the children reflected on the hopes they have for COVID-19 reducing and enabling them to meet with their much missed friends and families. Rev Julie has also left some templates by the lettering so that friends from the congregation and village and also write a prayer to hang up, alongside all the children’s, so the whole community can be involved. This week, we also watched our virtual Easter Service which the whole school joined in with. We hope you enjoy it!

On Wednesday 11th November, the whole school paused to visit the church grave yard and place crosses at a war memorial grave. The children, along with Rev Julie, went with their teachers to have a two-minute silence to  remember those who fought for peace and for the long-lasting peace we are fortunate enough to have in our country. Mr Gray also put a wreath on the memorial in the village with a message which some Year 6s wrote, in memory of the bravery and courage of the soldiers.

We linked Remembrance Day in with our value this term of Generosity and Willow Class thought about this during their Spiritual Journal time in school. They focused on how soldiers in WW1 and 2 showed generosity and bravery by fighting for us to be able to live in peace.