Year 6 have been working extremely well throughout our RE topic, ‘what do religions say to us when life gets hard?’ Within this we have been looking at life after death and Heaven. In our lesson today, we have explored Heaven and what it looks like. We have to Read more
Year 1 Oaks read the bible story “Jesus’ Special Friends” and talked about what makes a good friend. We used fruit to represent our Christian values and what we value in a friendship. The blueberries represented kindness, strawberries represented love and so on. At the end we sprinkled ‘happiness’ onto Read more
As part of our RE topic, Year 6 discussed what they think a soul is, where it comes from, what happens to it when we die and what it looks like. The children had some fantastic and mature ideas and were able to both articulate their own thoughts and ask Read more
Today we looked at how different religions pray and worship God. We discussed that prayer is how religious people talk to their God and why prayer is an important activity. We explored a range of artefacts from Hindus, Judaism, Muslim and Christians and looked at where they came from and how Read more
In R.E this week discussed things that we can’t see but believe in. We blew up a balloon and blew some bubbles and asked if we cannot see air, how do we know it’s there? We then discussed how we exercise trust and faith in our everyday lives. We talked Read more
This half term Year 6 are looking at ‘Me and my relationships’. This week we have focused on different situations and gave advice to each other. The children worked cooperatively to sensibly discuss and give advice. We considered whether the friendship sounded positive and healthy or not? Is it a Read more
In our RE lesson this week, we recapped on the terms atheist, agnostic and theist. We discussed how there is no evidence of God but lots of people still believe. We used metaphors to describe God and the children shared what God means to them. We had lots of lovely Read more
A huge well done to all the children in Ash as you’ve all made such a fantastic start to the new school year. We’ve had a busy week doing lots of Maths games, drawing our favourite teddy, we’ve spent time in Kayden’s garden, sang songs in RE, wrote new prayers Read more
On Thursday 7th July, Hawthorn took part in the Rochdale Science-Faith Festival at St. Luke’s Church called God and the Big Bang. We took part in interactive workshops with the opportunity to discover, discuss and debate the compatibility of science and faith.
On Thursday 7th July, Maple took part in the Rochdale Science-Faith Festival at St. Luke’s Church called God and the Big Bang. We took part in interactive workshops with the opportunity to discover, discuss and debate the compatibility of science and faith.