The Lord your God is with you

As we come to the end of our summer term, we will be focusing on the last part of Joshua 1 v 9, where God reminds His people that He is always with us. In fact it is for this reason that we should not be discouraged. Not an easy thing to achieve at times, but then I am sure that this is something that God understands. We only have to read the book of Psalms to see evidence of that!

In assembly today we thought about the fact that we can have confidence that God is with us even though we cannot see him.

We looked at Hebrews 11 v 1 where Paul tells his readers that faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Faith we considered, is trusting something beyond what we can prove with our intellect and senses, but it is also based on past experience or evidence. Not just our evidence or experience either, but those of others we know and who have walked the path of faith before us. In Joshua the people did not walk blindly in faith, they walked in full knowledge of the God who had proved Himself to be trustworthy and faithful to His promises.

Sometimes faith is tough, but it is always based on the confidence that God is always with us, even when we can't see him.

For our year 5 and year 6 leavers this is something that we hope they will take with them. That as they leave our school and begin new journeys  they can be confident that God is with them and because of this they will be

Strong and courageous

They will not be frightened or dismayed

For the Lord their GOD will be with them where ever they go.

Birds of prey and a few other things in year 1

Following on from the birds of prey visit some of the children in year 1 have been finding out about the similarities and differences between Andean Condors and Marabou Storks. We then talked about what Andean Condors look like and made some models of them.

Year 1 visited St John's church as part of their RE topic on Christianity. The children looked around for crosses, objects with St John The Baptist on them, patterns and something which they thought was beautiful. The children took their own photographs using the iPads and then made leaflets about St John the Baptist Church.

 

 
 

Redwings and Ladybirds go 3D!

Redwings & Ladybirds have been learning about 3D shapes. Our model lasted for 3 days until it was accidentally knocked down!

All in a game of tennis

Yesterdays KS1 assembly saw myself and another member of staff attempting to show off our tennis skills; sadly we didn't seem to have any!

 

Despite our best efforts we became very discouraged and despondent, until the children began to offer us advice and even a bit of personal coaching.

What a difference this, along with all the encouragement the children gave us, made! We even managed a short rally by the end of the assembly!

 

Our closing song was one of our favourites - Shine from the inside out!

 

The words remind us that the way we relate to others and treat them is key to God's call to love our friends and neighbours. In fact our daily choices about how we encourage, value and respect others are a clear sign of God's love at work in us.

 

As the words of our song says:

Shine from the inside out, so the world will know you live in us!

 

Children in KS1 certainly shone today!

Around the school this week

As our year 6 leavers prepare for their end of year performance, the programme design competition is well under way as you can see below. In addition Year 4 have been using their artistic talents to support their topic on Japan and our assembly focus is brought to life with our ' bag of worries' display that encourages us not to be discouraged!