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Year 3 – RE: How do Christian communities use visual art?

14th November 2025Claire Dutton

Today in RE, we continued our learning about symbolism and art in religion by focusing on the use of visual arts by the Christian community. We learned that most Christians find it acceptable to create images of Jesus and other individuals from the bible, however some other religions do not. We looked at the images below and shared our thoughts and feelings about them with each other, showing great mutual respect and tolerance for those with different beliefs and thoughts to our own. Well done, everyone!

Dress up donations!

14th November 2025Sarah Walton

In the run up to Christmas, there will be performances across school which require costumes. We appreciate these can be costly and so ask if anyone has any old Nativity style costumes hidden away somewhere that could be donated to school. Year 3/4 in particular would be extremely grateful for any larger costumes for the older children to support our special Christmas performance.

Thank you in advance!

Miss Walton

Year 3 – RE: What is Spirituality?

10th November 2025Claire Dutton

In Religious Education last week, Year 3 were exploring what the word ‘spirituality’ meant and how different people express or experience their spirituality in different ways. Mrs Dutton and Miss Cooper were absolutely blown away by the depth of the children’s thinking and ideas around this huge topic … what thoughtful and brilliant children we have in our classrooms! We looked at different images of spiritual experiences and thought about the role that symbols play in different aspects of spirituality and religion, with many children identifying different symbols that meant something important to them for different reasons.

Class 7 RE- nature and religion

5th November 2025Simon Gerrard

Class 7 continued learning about Hindu stories and how the River Ganges was like a mother, as it helped the world grow through care and nourishment, with the help of Shiva. We created posters to show how the earth cares for us!

Crew Jackson – RE

5th November 2025Jillian Jackson

This week in RE we talked about happiness and contentment. We discussed what makes us happy and when we feel content. As part of the lesson we enjoyed listening to music and thought about about how the songs made us feel. We finished the lesson by creating a happiness tree.

Crew Ambler – RE

5th November 2025Tom Ambler

Yesterday In RE, we discussed what makes us happy and our rights as children. We then created our leaves to put on our happiness tree for display.

Year 3 – How does the Jewish Shabbat link to our half-term holiday?

17th October 2025Claire Dutton

In RE today, Year 3 learnt about the Jewish day of rest called Shabbat (or Sabbath) and we talked about how important it was to rest and to take time away from working hard. We listened to the Jewish creation story and made links to the Christian story of creation that most of us already knew. We talked about what days of the week we rest on and how our families do this differently … although it did seem that ‘having a lie in’ at the weekend was a very popular choice!

The Jewish Shabbat begins at sunset on Friday and runs through to nightfall on Saturday, and so it seems a perfect excuse to close our week and to begin our half-term holiday on a Friday!

A huge well done to all of the boys and girls in Year 3, you have been absolutely amazing and we have learnt so much already – you should all be super proud of yourselves, just like we all are! Here’s to a peaceful and relaxing break with your families, and hopefully lots of sweet treats for Halloween … we can’t wait to hear all about your adventures and costumes when we return to school.

Shabbat Shalom (peaceful Sabbath), Mrs Dutton and Miss Cooper xx

Year 3 – Diwali Artwork

17th October 2025Claire Dutton

Today has been a special focus on the Hindu faith and on Diwali – the Hindu celebration of light. In Year 3, we learned about how Diwali is celebrated, as well as the story behind all of the fun and festivities … Rama and Sita. Why not ask us to retell the story of Rama and Sita, and how Rama overcame evil to win back his wife?

We looked at some examples of the beautiful Diwali lamps which might be used to celebrate Diwali 2025 (this coming Monday), and we created some beautiful artwork using oil pastels on black card. Well done everyone, we are so impressed with your gorgeous creations!

Class 7 – Hindu Faith Day!

17th October 2025Simon Gerrard

It’s fair to say that Class 7 loved learning their Faith Day today. We learnt about Diwali, but more specifically the story of Rama and Sita. We loved it and were inspired to make our own Diya lamps!