As part of our whole school learning about our sister faith of Judaism, we took part in a workshop that taught us all we needed to know about the Jewish day of rest called Shabbat. The workshop took us back to our autumn RE, where we had learned that God rested on the seventh day and the Jewish people do this as part of their Shabbat on Friday, going onto Saturday at sunset.
Whole school assembly to launch Judaism Day 
What do you know about Shabbat? 
We will set our table ready for Shabbat. 
We used the yad to read the Torah. 
What do you think about this mystery object? 
We recognised some stories from the Torah. 
Dressed up in a kippah and tallit! 
There were so many kippahs to choose from! 
Can you find the Hebrew ‘C’? 
Hebrew is read from right to left. 
There were so many things to learn! 
We ended our morning with a liturgy.
The children had great fun exploring the Jewish resources, such as the kippar (cap), Torah (religious text), yad (pointing stick) and tallits (prayer shawl) and showed great respect as they learned about this fascinating religion which has so many connections with the Catholic faith. Our morning ended with our own liturgy where we enjoyed grape juice and challah bread, followed by a whole school assembly where we taught the rest of the school a Shabbat song and found out lots of new things from other classes.
Shabbat candles, shabbat candles. Burning bright, burning bright. Challah on the table, challah on the table, it’s Friday night, Friday night.