The Year Of St. Joseph And RE Shining Stars

The long-awaited day to celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Communion as finally arrived. Due to Covid restrictions Junior 4 and 5 pupils have had to wait another year before receiving the Eucharist.

This week, however, they have been busy preparing for the Holy Communion Service. The children have been rehearsing their readings and singing at St Francis Church and completing their Sacramental folders and booklets. Fortunately, the Mass will be filmed so that all who are unable to attend will be able to see the celebration.

A special thanks to Isabella Olden who will be playing the piano and cornet during Mass.

Good luck to Thomas and Isabel Reddish as they receive the Sacrament of Baptism this Saturday, at Princethorpe.

Our local Good Samaritan, Joshua Burley in Junior 3 is our Shining Star this week and receives a Da Vinci. During his half-term break in London, he was struck by the number of homeless people on the street and wanted to help in some way. Using his birthday money, he donated to Shelter and bought the ‘Big Issue’. In our RE lesson this week, Joshua was able to make the link with the story of ‘The Good Samaritan’ and demonstrated how we can live out ‘God’s Word’.

Children in J2 have been considering The Passover which we heard a great deal about during the year. The children had asked exactly what the feast represented, so we investigated the story of Moses, (the baby born into slavery), who became a Prince of Egypt and then saved his people from Pharaoh. Theo sequenced the story (which was quite lengthy) and focused beautifully on presentation for a good 50 minutes! What a super star. Theo said” it was a brilliant story and I think one of my favourites, I loved hearing about this amazing man”.