Here we are at the end of the Spring Term! We are very thankful that we have been able to spend these last few weeks together in school and we are looking forward to lots more learning through play, and hopefully good weather, during the Summer Term.
This week we learnt about the Easter Story and I was so impressed by the children’s fantastic knowledge and their ability to express their ideas about Jesus:
“Jesus died because he loves us”
“Jesus knew all along that he was going to die”
“Jesus died and then he was alive and then he died”
When we learnt about the Story of the Nativity at the end of the Autumn term, we watched a lovely CBeebies clip of an artist drawing the story in sand. Here he is again, this time drawing the Easter Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vjfpXBJRCc
As part of our learning about the Easter story, we completed our Lenten Project which, this year, involved walking a virtual Pilgrams’ Way. We took on the challenge of walking the 90 mile route from Southwark to Canterbury on our lovely school field. Thankfully, we were able to combine all of our steps together and we had some help from the Reception children!
While walking, we encouraged the children to think about some of the things they are thankful for and we used their ideas to create some special and individual Prayers for Easter…
“Dear Lord, thank you for my mummy and my daddy, Amen”
“Dear Lord, thank you dinosaurs, Amen”
“Dear Lord, thank you for my brothers, Amen”
You will find your child’s Prayer for Easter on the back of their printed Easter egg which we sent home yesterday. Please do take a moment over the holidays to share it together.
We also found out about some of the different things people do to get ready to celebrate Easter:
The Little Acorns made some of these delicious cornflake-chocolate nests and, as we are all so kind and friendly in Nursery, they made enough for everyone! Thank you Little Acorns!
We also printed our own beautiful Easter eggs using shaving foam and drops of food colouring to create a marbling effect…
Aren’t they gorgeous! Do have a look in your child’s book bag, if you haven’t already, as we sent these home yesterday. On the back, you will find your child’s Prayer for Easter…
We ended the week with an exciting Easter egg hunt in the garden! The children were set the challenge of finding 100 missing Easter eggs and, guess what…they did it!
Finally, we were so very impressed by the amazing Easter creations that many of you sent in! They were put on display and admired by Mr Quinn, Mrs Warner and Mr Norris (our site manager). Well done everyone!
We hope you all have a wonderful Easter. Thank you again for all your amazing support and we will look forward to seeing you when school reopens on Monday 19th April.