Year 4 has done this beautifully this week, with a wonderful, calm and instructive mass led by Fr Michael on Wednesday. Fr Michael was impressed by the children’s respectful behaviour and well they led the service. He took opportunities to help the children understand aspects of the service and the importance of Mary in her role as an intercessory, explaining why we crown her with flowers.
The children’s illustrations for “Mary ascended into heaven” were beautiful and were well-presented at today’s moving “Crowning of Mary” assembly.
We have been reading scripture from John and learning about the time after Jesus’s resurrection. We were very lucky today, that Saint Peter came to visit us and agreed to be “hot seated” to share his feelings about the events by the lake, when Jesus appeared to the disciples. The children immersed themselves in the topic very well and showed empathy in considering Peter’s feelings at the time. Yesterday, they acted out the scene when Peter discovered that the tomb was empty.
The children built shelters to explore ideas of what would make a good shelter, which formed the basis for their initial sentences based our new book “Weslandia”. A few of them are below. The children are also enjoying our class reader called “The Pebble in My Pocket”. The pebbles you see daily could be 450 million years old! They are also enjoying our guided reading text “The Firework Maker’s Daughter”.
