Advent at church

It was great to gather together again as a school family at church last Thursday to start our Advent journey. The children were invited to take part in an advent challenge, that focused on surprises. Our theme being that Christmas is actually a story of surprises, if not even a tale of the unexpected!

Our reading and prayers were led by our year four, foundation and year 2 classes and as ever a selection of musicians performed at the start and end of the services. 

Our final song was accompanied by the distribution of glow sticks, a chance for us all to add a little 'light' to the proceedings!

 

Smartie time

Our year two classes were undertaking a data collection exercise last week all based around a tube of Smarties. The children were asked to record how many of each colour there were in individual tubes. All of this being brought together at the end to see if there were any patterns in the distribution or whether it was all quite random!

Great enthusiasm and self control exhibited by the children, no Smarties eaten and therefore no data sets distorted!  However they were rewarded at the end with the freedom to eat their work! The Smarties not the graphs!

 

Deck the halls

The 1st of December draws near and the Christmas decorations are up in our hall. A wonderful display of festive fun.

 

 

Art around the school

KS1 continue with their pirate theme and year 4 take the time to reflect on what Jesus may have looked like.

 

 

A time for light to show the way

In our KS1 assembly today we considered how amazing God's creation is through the words of one of our favourite songs; Our God is a great big God. The verse reminds us that God is wider than the universe and beyond our wildest dreams!

A star filled night, is all you need to consider the vastness of the universe and we only see a glimpse of what is actually up there! In our assembly we considered how important stars are to the Christmas story and how significant they were to people many years ago, in particular how they were used to navigate and find a destination.

We also thought about another source of light - the lighthouse. This reminded us of one of our other favourite songs - Shine from the inside out, so the world might see you live in me!

Light it would seem calls us to follow, but at the same time calls us to be lights ourselves.

Our verse for the next few weeks is taken from Micah 6 v 8

The Lord has told you what is good. He has told you what he wants from you: Do what is right to other people. Love being kind to others. And live humbly, trusting your God.

To do what is right to other people is most certainly a way of sharing the light!