Year 5 were invited to Birtley Methodist Church to learn more about the Christian story of Easter.
We learnt about the last few weeks of Jesus’ life and how this became the celebration of Easter.

We first learnt about Jesus arriving to town on a donkey- unlike any other king! We used our palm leaves to welcome him. We learnt about his ‘righteous anger’ at the market traders outside the temple and we discovered the importance of the stones that had been used and those that had been rejected in the building of the temple.

We learned that Jesus died and was resurrected and that Christians celebrate Jesus coming back to life on Easter Sunday. We made special wheels that show the events of the Easter story.