In the Jewish religion, New Year is celebrated in Autumn with the festival of Rosh Hashanah. It’s a time to repent, to make up for things that have gone wrong, and to wish friends and family a “sweet New Year” – symbolised by apples and honey (surprisingly delicious, if you’ve never tasted them).
In Science, we investigated shadow formation using a variety of scary monsters whose shadows grew alarmingly as they moved closer to the light source. Mwah-haaaaa-haaaa-haaaaaaaaaaa!
With CAFOD’s Harvest Fast Day falling during our time at High Borrans this year, we brought the traditional Y6 CAFOD fundraising lunch forward a week. A true cross-curricular extravaganza if ever I’ve seen one, though perhaps a shade too subtle for our special visitors to notice when we did exactly the same last year! The…… Read More
Taking a very small amount of time off the relentless Y6 pursuit of excellence in Maths and English, we have extended our Geography topic (aka Creative Curriculum, if any OFSTED inspectors are reading this) on El Salvador to explore the work of world-famous Salvadoran artist, Francisco Llort. Llort seeks to express the beauty and vibrancy…… Read More
Y3 were given the following scenarios. After dramatising them, they were able to discuss whether each of the incidents viewed were a sin or not: You are visiting your grandma’s house. She has a vase that is very old and important to the family. You pick it up to look at it, it slips out…… Read More
Year 3 have been learning all about the Muslim place of worship, the Mosque. Thank you Alayah, for bringing in those Holy objects of Islamic faith! … Read More
Year 3 took the holy objects they have shared during our stories leading up to and during Holy Week and created a moving liturgy that ends with Jesus’ death on the cross. “…it seemed like the end of everything…” The following day, they chose their own selection of holy objects (reverently used during our liturgy)…… Read More
Linked to our Religious topics of ‘Celebrating’ and ‘Gathering’ this term, the Reception children enjoyed a visit to St. Columba’s church. Two of our parish members Mrs Dodds and Mr Finlay helped us on our visit. Mr Finlay drove the children to the church in the minibus. There was great excitement getting out of school…… Read More
On 7th February, Y3 were excited to talk to Mrs. Jordan about her pilgrimage to Lourdes. First we generated questions that we would like to ask: Then we held our interview: We learned many things about Mrs. Jordan’s pilgrimage to Lourdes and why this spiritual journey was so important to her: Look at…… Read More
In RE we have been been looking at what a ‘celebration’ is and how the parish family celebrate. What is a celebration? Why do people celebrate? Can you celebrate on your own? We looked at photos of ourselves at our Christmas party. We noticed our special clothes, special food and the fun we had…… Read More
From the 23rd of January to the 28th, we have been learning all about the liturgical year in Year 3. Take a look at our work: We had great fun playing our liturgical year card game and it helped us to remember how Jesus’ life is celebrated in the different seasons, as well as the…… Read More
