Learning In RE

During Monday’s Mission Assembly, pupils walked into the hall listening to the sound of Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder. Mrs McAloon led the Assembly and asked the school community whose birthday it was today, reminding everyone that this special time also coincided with the birthday of the Church and the Feast of Pentecost, which is celebrated 50 days after Easter, when Jesus sent His Holy Spirit to the disciples.

To coincide with the school going to St Francis of Assisi church in Kenilworth to celebrate pupils making their First Holy Communion before half-term, Junior 2 discussed the school mass – what do we do, what do we say and why do we sing? What does the Priest use? We learnt what a pall and a paten is and what goes inside the tabernacle and why the sanctuary lamp is lit, and we realised that there is a difference between a chalice and a ciborium. We visited the school Oratory and had a very respectful discussion about the objects used and we enjoyed learning about the Eucharist and relating this to what Jesus did at the Last Supper.

Continuing the theme of Pentecost, pupils in Junior 4 thought about the different symbols that they could identified as the Holy Spirit. Finley thought of a small suction toy, which you press down and then suddenly gains energy and flies in the air while Ding explained his image of veins and arteries pumping blood to keep him alive was like the Holy Spirit giving energy we also thought how the Holy Spirit is like a charged battery.

Junior 3 linked Art with RE and created images of doves and fire on stained glass windows to show their understanding of the symbols of Pentecost.