May this Holy Saturday be a reminder to us all that God’s silence does not equal God’s absence. Wishing a blessed Holy Saturday to you and all your families.
Today marks the beginning of the most important few days in the Church’s calendar. Starting on Palm Sunday, we have been journeying through Holy Week whilst on our Easter break. We hope you have managed to take some time to enjoy time together, relax, rest as well as reflect on this special time of year.
During his Last Supper on the night before he died, Jesus gave us the gift of himself when he took bread and wine and said: This is my Body. This is my Blood. This is me. The Bread of Life. Food for the Journey.
As Catholics, we believe that part of Jesus is within each of us. We are his hands and his feet. With everything currently going on in our world today, remember that how we treat those closest to us is a reflection of how we expect to be treated. Take time today to think of those who give themselves to others so that they can live. To parents, to emergency workers, to aid workers, to those protecting the most vulnerable, thank you for all you do.
If you wish to attend mass today, the mass at All Souls Church begins at 7.30pm with solemn watching until midnight.
This term, we have had a competition within our classes. Every time this term we have been in 100% our name went into a box. Today, the Well-being Captains picked a name out of each box (year) and they won a voucher. Well done to everyone, who won and who got their name into the box.
We were overwhelmed with the many fantastic entries we had for our competition! It was a very difficult job to judge them! They were all so brilliant! Who knew cardboard tubes could be so creative! Well done to our winners who won a book voucher and our runners up who won a sweet treat!
We had such a brilliant day celebrating world book day in school. The children (and staff!) had made a huge effort to dress up and all looked fantastic! The reading cafe was a success and was enjoyed by the children and the adults. Thank you to all who came. The children really enjoyed having you come into school for a short while.
Year 3 and 5 walked to the War Memorial Park to do their BIG LENT WALK. All together we walked 496,000 steps or 221.02 miles. Well done Year 3 and 5!
Just a reminder about the competition to design a cardboard tube book character. Bring in your creations from Wednesday next week ready for judging on Friday!
Seven Trent came in to teach us all about what should go down the toilet. We loved the song at the end. Thank you Beth.
This week was National Storytelling Week, an annual event organised by the National Literacy Trust.
This fantastic annual event is a joyful celebration of the power of sharing stories. Stories teach us about the world, they allow us to step into someone else’s shoes and feel empathy, they help us to relax and escape and they can help develop essential literacy skills.
To celebrate and acknowledge the week the children of All Souls’ embraced storytelling by visiting other year groups to share stories and read to each other.
Year 6 visited Reception to read to their Prayer Friends:
Year 5 shared stories with Year 1:
Year 4 spent time in Year 2 reading and telling stories to each other:
Year 2 were also very lucky to have Lilah and Macie from Year 6 visit them as VIP readers on Friday afternoon.
Everyone had such a lovely week telling stories and spending time with others from across school, we hope it has encouraged the children to share stories with those at home!
Wishing all of our children and families a very
‘Happy New Year!’
May our Lord fulfil all your new year wishes and keep you and your family healthy and happy.
All the staff of All Souls’ x
