In November, the children in school visited Tockwith Church where Reverend Otter and some volunteers from the parish helped the children experience church. The theme was Harvest and there were four ‘stations’ that the children took turns visiting. The stations were:
- Humility
- Generosity
- Faithfulness
- Peace
In each section, the children learnt different stories from the bible. For Humility the children looked at sheep and the production of wool. The section ‘Generosity’ looked at the bread and where it comes from and the feeding of the 5000. Children tasted bread and learnt about how to make bread. The story of Peter and the Fishermen was covered in ‘Peace’ – children created origami boats and discussed the difficult decision Peter faced. Finally, Faithfulness looked at Sukkot and the hanging of fruit on the shelter.
The children in Y6 have detailed the event as follows:
Generosity
The generosity place was learning about what it really meant. We discussed giving to one another even if it’s small it can go a long way. They passed white and brown bread around to each person and they ate their bread and it was giving the meaning of what generosity meant.
Faithfulness
For this one the pupils were in a shelter learning about faithfulness and standing up for people. We hung the tokens we got from each place on the shelter to represent fruit and we started discussing. We look at the place where they baptise people to be blessed by God and a christian just like in the bible story and we all learnt about having faith! Sukkot shelter
Humility
Here reverend Martin was talking about being humble and he was also showing everyone about it using wool. He showed us two jumpers, a plain white one and a colourful one and asked if we wanted to have only white clothes or did we want loads of different colours. He was showing we want to be individuals and wear colour and tricked us at the end choosing the person who didn’t put their hand up to take the token since they were being humble.
Peace
Here we were looking at fishermen and how they do so much and risk their lives to get us food. We looked at this prayer that christian fishermen sing to ask God to keep them safe at sea. Then we made origami to make a little boat to represent the prayer they learned.You could leave at church or take it home to remember Gods here for you.
