Artistic RE in Year 5

In Year 5 this term we are looking at how people describe God.
Lots of people have different ideas and today we used watercolour pencils to illustrate words to describe how Christians see God.

Here are some of our ideas.

Next week we are finding out about how Muslims see God.

Collective Worship - Year 5

Our theme for Collective Worship this week was Trust. This involved lots of reflections about the people that we trust in our lives, exploring the trust that people have in Jesus and discussing the qualities we can develop to ensure that people can trust us too! We put the theories to the test with an activity (as shown above) to gain a better understanding of just how important trust is - and to no surprise, the answer was VERY! 

Shabbat Shalom!

Last term in reception we have been learning about how some people celebrate Shabbat. We talked about how this can be similar or different to celebrations in our own lives. In addition, we talked about what festive days we celebrate and understand that all of us are different and may celebrate different things. We are now excited to focus on 'Specialness' and 'Special Things' in RE this term.

RE and Collective Worship - Year 5

Blog by PMM (5D)
In RE we've been learning about justice. One of the activities was to make a 'wordle' which is a group of words about justice and words which link to this idea (like rights, equality, democracy).
In Collective Worship we have learnt about respect, truthfulness and devotion.
This week, we have learned about the Islamic faith and how different families take part in Ramadan.

1L learn all about 'light over darkness'

The festivities have been in full swing in Class 1L.

We all really enjoyed our Christmas Jumper Day for the Save the Children charity. Thank you for your donations to save Children's lives. Miss Lacey's light up reindeer jumper was a hit with 1L!!

We have had two fun days of learning about Advent and Hanukkah and how different religions count down to Christmas.

We discovered what the five candles on the Advent Wreath represent and had a fun afternoon making our own version. We also discovered that Jews light 8 candles in the lead up to Christmas.

We all now know the importance that light brings us over darkness.

Harvest time

Shirley Warren has celebrated Harvest with the help of Matthew Gwyn from
Southampton City Mission. The following day 3 members of the Green Council visited the Basics Bank and sorted through over 20 crates of food! What hardworking little bunch! I would like to say a big thank you to all our families who donated food to support the local community.

Y3S have been thinking about trees as symbols

In Y3S, we have been spending a couple of days looking at Trees as Symbols. We explored how trees are used as symbols and whether we thought they were good symbols. We also thought about how we feel about trees and what they migh represent for us. We then looked at the tree of knowledge and created our own. Here are just some of the things we included on our tree of knowledge. 

We also looked at the Tale of the Three Trees and wrote our own stories based on one of the trees. 

2D's RE days

2D have had a lovely couple of days learning more about the Easter story and the feelings in the story. We read a couple of stories where the feelings change from sadness to happiness, and talked about different times that we have felt sad, then happy. It's been so interesting!

Yesterday we thought about what a church might look like at Easter and the music they might listen to, thinking about the change from sad to happy. We made a list, then looked at pictures to figure out what was actually there. We found a lot of flowers, a lot of crosses (or crucifixes), and lights and candles... but we didn't find any Easter bunnies or chocolate! We talked about how a Christian's view of Easter is different to what we know now.

Finally, we spent the afternoon making decorations that would be suitable for a church during Easter and decorated our balcony to resemble a happy church on Easter Monday when Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead. We posed for some (very sunny) photos in front of our pretend church. Have a look and let us know what you think!

RE Day in Year 1

We had Matt and Janet from Southampton City Mission come in to school to teach us all about New Life. We started off by thinking about the new things growing all around us, then we listened to some stories and played some games outside and finally, we finished the day by doing some mosaic craft and we listened to another story. We had so much fun and everybody (including the grown ups) learned lots and lots!

RE days in 2D

In Year 2 we have been enjoying learning about candlelight and how it is used in different religions. The religions we looked at were Christianity and Judaism, and we learnt about the celebrations advent and Hanukkah.

In advent, Christians use candles to count down the weeks to Christmas. Christmas is special because they remember Jesus's birthday. They use candles because it shows the light that Jesus brought to people (like joy, peace, faith and love). We made our own advent wreaths to show this.

During Hanukkah, Jews light candles on a menorah. This is to remember a time when a miracle happened to a group of Jews called the Maccabees. After winning a fight for their religion, they lit a candle with enough oil to last one day, but the candle stayed alight for eight days! This showed the Maccabees that God was with them. We made our own menorahs to remember this too! 

Finally, we looked at the ways the Christians and Jews celebrate these special holidays. We played a game called Dreidal using a spinning top with Jewish letters on it. Some children's games were finished really quickly but some lasted ages! We had a go at making our own dreidals too and they were very tricky to cut and fold! 

Have a look at some pictures from our three days!

6D RE with Southampton City Mission

Year 6 were extremely fortunate to have a visit from Matt from Southampton City Mission yesterday! He helped us to understand the Christmas story from two points of view. We had a lot of fun dressing up, making games and creating beautiful advent candles.

Thank you very much Matt!

Receptions RE Days

Thursday and Friday have been RE days in Reception. We started by talking about birthdays and how we celebrate them and we drew pictures of this. We them watched the Christmas story and spoke about how Jesus' birthday is important to Christians. We have really enjoyed our learning about this!

Y2D trip to St Jude's

As part of our RE topic on special places, Y2D walked up to St Jude's church. We met Padre Roy and enjoyed looking at all the special things in the church.

Y2F visit a special place

As part of our RE topic on Special Places, Year 2 went to visit St Jude's Church. We met Padre Roy who told us all about the church. We looked for all the special things in the church and thought about how it made us feel. we all enjoyed our visit to St Jude's.

Y4 Celebrating Holi

Year 4 have been studying the Hindu Festival of Holi. Today we created Holi pictures using black paper and coloured chalk. We remembered that Holi is the festival of colours and light and celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Happy Holi Everyone!

Tessellation Painting in Year 6

In Year 6 we were making some tessellating patterns.

A tessellating pattern in shapes made into a pattern but no gaps, like bricks.
We did this in the style of Islamic Art.  We used a range of colours and we used compasses to make circles.

After we did a few circles, we could see a flower shape where some of them were overlapping, there was also a diamond and inside the diamond there was a shape like an eye.

We used the six points of the flower to make a hexagon, and with that we divided it into lots of triangles and different shapes.

By the children in Year 6

Nativities

'One of the best parts of being a Governor is the opportunity it brings to attend a Nativity event at Christmas. I have thoroughly enjoyed 2 this year, having watched the Nursery & Reception children singing and acting early last week, and then KS1 Christmas Performance of the “Christmas Baubles” later in the week. Both events were delightful, with something for everyone to do- some excellent singing and speaking – and very good costumes – just what was needed to bring the Christmas Story to life and start the festive Season. Well done to all those who took part & also to Mrs Bullas and Mrs Mead and the rest of the staff who must all have been working so hard to get the shows working well. It is great to see the confidence of so many Children grow so that they can perform in public with smiles and clear voices. Thank you all of you….. now for KS2 this coming week!'

Chris Thomas, Governor

KS1 Christmas Nativity Performance

Year 1 and 2 were very proud to present their Christmas show called 'Baubles' to the parents at Shirley Warren Primary School. Featuring all of the required parts of a show, the children acted, narrated and sang 7 songs. All the staff at Shirley warren are very proud of what they achieved. Well done KS1.

Basics Bank Assembly

We had some visitors in for Assembly to tell us about where our food went which we donated at Harvest time. It was a fun assembly with some amazing magic when they were telling us a special story. The pictures disappeared and then reappeared in their Bible, both with and without colour. How did they do it?

Governors at The Harvest Festival

I enjoyed attending the recent Harvest Assemblies where the Rev Debbie had the children tasting fruit from gardens mentioned in the Bible, I was one of those who enjoyed a slice of green apple- but missed out on the olives! Some great singing from the children – who obviously enjoyed the “Harvest Rock & Roll.” Chris Thomas