Worship

This week in Worship we have continued our ‘Desert to Garden’ topic. Our key words this week were CARE, LENT and GROW.

Our first session began with a lovely story called ‘Penguin and Pinecone’ Click here to watch. In the story Penguin shows love and care by planting Pinecone in a place where it can grow. Over time, Penguin’s love helped the Pinecone grow into a big, strong tree. We have continued this theme by planting seeds in our garden and adding playdough blossom to twigs…new life!

We then saw some photos of a baby – can you remember who the baby in the photos was? Just like Penguin, this grew big and strong because of the love and care from her family. It was Barbara!

Lent is a special time to care for others with kindness and love. When we help someone, share things or say kind words, our love grows, just like Pinecone grew into a tree and Barbara grew into a caring and loving nursery lady!

Lent reminds us that when we care for others, we grow closer to Jesus and help make the world more loving.

Our second session this week we heard about the Good Samaritan. Lent is a time to care for others, and we can help and be kind to everyone. Jesus said, “Be like the Samaritan. Love others and help them when they need you.”

We also heard about ‘Jesus and the woman of Samaria’. We saw a picture of the woman with Jesus at a well, and had a think about what they may be doing there. We heard words from the Gospel (John 4:42), “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, we have heard for ourselves and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the World”. We thought about and discussed the question, ‘How can you show Jesus’ love to others through your actions this week?’

We have concluded our sessions this week by praying in our prayer garden around our statue of Mary. Some of us have chosen to this ourselves as well throughout the day. It was so lovely and peaceful.

Throughout the week we have been collecting steps towards Cafod’s Big Lent Walk. Each day we have been walking around the school field. The CAFOD Big Lent Walk 2026 invites individuals, schools, and parishes to walk 200km during the 40 days of Lent to raise funds for fighting poverty, including projects supporting communities in Nigeria. Funds raised help combat widespread poverty, conflict, and climate issues, while supporting water access and empowering women and girls.

The stations of the cross

This week we all went on a pilgrimage around school to visit the stations of the cross. At each station we discussed what we saw which helped us to understand more about Jesus’ journey to the cross. The children were so moved they haven’t stopped talking about it.

Learning landscape

A week full of experiments with questions such as; what will happen if? what do you think? can you tell me? We have been:

balancing objects using balance scales using words like heavy, light, and balance.
predicting which objects will sink or float?
following instructions to recreate images using magnetic tiles
using number patterns to 9 to fill the numicon boards. Yes, nine a new number! The children were sooooo excited. We are now finding out about number 9
following cue cards to build flowers
using the iPad to complete matching games
and next week we will be learning some new letter sounds!