News: RE

Some of the pictures of our Year 4 children taking part in our Carol Concert service this morning in church. They made the christingles in their RE lessons.

A beautiful service held this morning by our Year 6 children and lead us into the Christmas holidays. Thank you to Miss Cornall and Mrs Rey for all your hard work in putting this together. Your hard work did not go unnoticed.

A wonderful Christmas Carol worship this morning held by Year 6 with the help of Year 4 children too. A wonderful service to end 2024. A big thanks to the staff who have worked behind the scenes to pull this together for us all to enjoy.

Ready for our first performance.

Well done Reception! You were all fantastic!

Reception in their Nativity costumes.

Year 2’s last ever nativity performance!

A Midwife Crisis!: A Huge Success!

Thank you, Bishop Philip, for your wonderful assembly. You helped us understand how Jesus is the Light of the World, guiding and protecting us. Your words were a source of comfort and inspiration to us all.

Miss Sprot taught us about a Polish tradition today- St. Nicholas Day.

Sequencing and discussing the Nativity story.

Our school worship team led a reflective service based on yesterday's Prayer Day. We discussed the calmness and quiet reflection that we all enjoyed.

Along with many other schools and churches within the Blackburn with Darwen Diocese we have joined the year of prayer. We are very much looking forward to what's to come next.

Reception loved their prayer experience session.

Today we had a prayer experience day were we thought about the different ways we can pray and reflect.

Prayer Experience Day. Well done year 6.

Year 3 Prayer Experience session

This afternoon we got to go and engage in Prayer Experience Day. The children said that they found this fun, exciting, calming and relaxing. It was lovely to reflect and see the different ways in which we can worship.

Today in RE we looked at the birth of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and compared the two.

Year 4 were fantastic today at Blackburn Cathedral. We had to think about some really big questions about the moon and how God made the world. If you can get down to the Cathedral to catch this amazing art installation you won’t regret it.

Our Diwali Presentation and Stay and Play

Yesterday in RE we looked at the other faiths and their special books. We worked in groups and each group talked about the different books and why they are important. We are so proud of how well they used their oracy skills to feedback to the class.

Our finished product. The children really enjoyed baking their biscuits.

Diwali- making Rangoli Patterns with chalk on the ground.

Diwali- making Diva Lamps.

Diwali- making Rangoli Patterns.

Today we went to Church for a special pumpkin service led by Reverend Alice. We were reminded that Jesus is the light of the world and is there for everyone in darker times.

We all smile in the same language at St. Aidan’s. Today we discussed that there are 8 languages spoken in Reception. Each week we will focus on one.

A huge thank you to these boys who took the lead in our RE session this week. They came and spoke to the class about their own experiences of the Hajj and became the experts in our lesson.

What a wonderful afternoon we had listening to Rev Alice talking to us about why the Bible is so special to her. Thank you for taking the time to come and talk to us.

Rev Alice brought her Bibles so we could look at them. Some were her very own, some belonged to her family and some from her church.

Ask your children what they learnt about Harvest today.

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday looking at our special books. The teachers brought some of their books in too. We talked about why these books are special to us. Here are a few of the pictures we took.

Today in RE, we're learning about the harvest!

We have had a wonderful first day back. Well done Year 6! Today we have had a great day. In RE we designed our own life journeys to share about ourselves.

In RE we have been researching churches from around the world.

We have been learning about special times in RE.

As part of our RE topic we went on a visit to church. We did a treasure hunt to find the objects in the church and what they are used for. Year 2 had a great time and learnt so much from Rev Alice.

En route to Blackburn Cathedral

Our morning so far. Learning all about ascension and Pentecost.

In RE we continued our work on special places. Mrs Mohamed taught us all about the Mosque.

In RE we are learning about special places. We visited Church today and Rev Alice showed us around.

Today in RE, we have been learning about the story of feeding the 5000. We had our own picnic and discussed the miracle that happened. We imaged sharing one biscuit and one drink between us all and we said it would not be enough.

Talking to our talk partners in RE today. Ask your child what we call Jesus’ special friends.

Today in RE we discovered what the bread and wine symbolise in the Easter story and then we freeze framed the last supper. Great effort Year 2

In Year 1 our new topic in RE is Easter.

Trust activity in RE

Our RE topic this term is Easter. We are looking at how symbols help us understand the Easter story. Yesterday we played pass the parcel with different parts of the story, we then put them on order and tried some delicious hot cross buns.

The Good Samaritan

Creating a timeline based on when Christianity came to England. The children also looked at facts about Christianity and history.

This week we have been reading the story of the lost sheep. We read the book and then discussed how we are still loved even when we don’t make the right choices and how we can turn our behaviour around. We hope you like our display.

A huge thank you from the Foodbank!

Thank you for attending our fabulous Carol service.

Bishop Philip leads special Advent worship

Yesterday Bishop Philip led a very special worship about Advent being a time of preparation for Christians. It is always fantastic to have Bishop Philip in school. He also danced with Year 1 during their PE session! Reverend Cath enjoyed taking part too.

Reception have been learning about Diwali this week!

They loved sharing what they had learnt with their families at our Diwali Rhyme Time today!

Harvest worship

Harvest worship led by our worship committee.

90th Birthday Celebrations for St Aidan's Church

This weekend marked the 90th birthday celebrations for our St Aidan's Church. We represented school by sending messages of best wishes and sent two pre-recorded hymns which were well received by our Church community. See the video here:

Year 6 Visit to Blackburn Cathedral

Blackburn Cathedral visit.