Our Lady & St. Werburgh's Catholic Primary School

Our Catholic Life in Reception 2024-2025

We enjoyed our first retreat day learning about God's Creation with One Life Music. We learnt a song about how God made us and we learned signs as we sang. We played Guess the Animal game, which we really enjoyed.

In our class room,  we drew our favourite animal, thanking God for creating our favourite animals. 

Noah Day

On Friday 20th September, following on from our retreat day with One Life Music, we had our first class liturgy, learning about how Noah was active in his faith and what he did to save the animals. We thought what it might have been like for Noah and how we might feel if God asked us to build an ark and save the animals. We talked about how Noah trusted God and we can also trust God. We drew who we would put into our arks.

Carrying on with our learning from our Noah day, we made our own Noah's Ark story spinners where we told the story in our own words.

As St Francis of Assisi is our class saint, we held a liturgy for our families. We listened to Psalm 104 then we pledged to care for different animals saying "I will care for the.. " as we placed our animal into the basket. We then completed some lovely activities based around St Francis on our classroom with our families. 

Baptism

As part of our learning about Baptism, we have been learning about the role of the Priest, who attends a Baptism, the importance of water and what happens as part of a Baptism. We took turns to be Father Anton, hold the baby, be a Godparent and hold the Baptismal Candle. 

We have been learning different songs about God, Noah and Jesus. Here we are enjoying dancing and singing along to the songs!

Catholic Life in Reception 2023-24

To begin our Catholic Life in our new school, we celebrated the Nativity of one of the patron saints of our school, St Mary. We learnt about why Mary is important to us. To celebrate her Nativity, we made rice krispie cakes and held a mini birthday party. We had lots of fun!

This week, we held our first class liturgy, we learnt how to set up our prayer area. We then learnt about our class saint St Francis of Assisi and began to learn the hymn based upon the prayer of  St Francis, Make me a channel of your peace. 

To celebrate our class saint, St Francis of Assisi, we held our first Stay and Pray with our parents. We accessed a range of activities based around St Francis and his message. Activities included to rebuild a church for St Francis, decorate a St Francis wooden doll, make a earth to promote peace with our hand print and a love heart on and making autumn suncatchers. We all thoroughly enjoyed spending time with our families in our classroom. 

We have been learning about the Old Testament. We have been learning the story of Noah and the Ark and how Noah followed God, listening to what God said and told him what to do. Using our Noah's Ark role play, we have been acting out the story and singing Who built the Ark? whilst we were role playing. 

Yohan was baptised in India. We asked Yohan's mum, Linsu to come into school to tell us about the differences between baptism in India and here in the United Kingdom. We asked some questions: Why is Yohan not wearing any clothes? What is the water poured over Yohan's head in? Why is Yohan wearing a crown? 

We have been learning lots of songs about Jesus. Our favourite songs are Who built the Ark? and Shine. Here we are listening to, singing and dancing to the songs. 

Holy Week: we role played the events of Palm Sunday waving palm branches and saying Hosanna! 

As part of our People who help us unit of work, we interviewed our parish priest Father Anton, to find out what he did. We thought of our own questions then we visited our hurch to interview him. 

As part of our people who care for us, we listened to Jesus' first miracle, the wedding at Cana. We role played this miracle then suggested what we thought Mary and Jesus might have been feeling. 

When learning about Jesus Ascension, we looked at different religious artworks. We then had a go at recreating the art work using wax crayons. 

Pentecost

To celebrate Pentecost and help us to understand how the Holy Spirit came to the disciples, we made wind and fire streamers using red and blue strips of paper. We also decorated a dove using the colours of fire.