The Easter Story

The Easter Story

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 him arriving to town on a donkey- unlike any...
The Easter Story

The Easter Story

Year 3 have been learning about the events of the Easter story, from Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem to his death and resurrection. In our lesson today, we have been looking at impressions of the crucifixion by different artists. We used the question prompts to...
Special books

Special books

This week, as part of our RE work, the children in Year 1 each brought in a book that is special to them and shared their books with the class. We talked and wrote about why our book is special and then drew a picture of the cover. We then found out about special...
Peace at Christmas

Peace at Christmas

In RE, we have learned that the title, ‘Prince of Peace,’ is often used to refer to Jesus Christ especially during the Christmas season. We looked at symbols of peace and talked about what peace means to us. We listened to the gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus and...
Christingles

Christingles

Year 3 have been learning about why Christians make Christingles at Christmas time and then made their own. The orange represents the world. The red ribbon represents the love of God and Jesus’ blood on the cross. The sweet items on cocktail sticks represent God’s...