'Sharing life in all its fullness'

(John 10:10)

As a school community, we worked together to find a Bible verse which would reflect our vision and ethos. The verse above, which is taken from the New Testament, is the result of this working group.  We believe passionately that this Bible verse shares what we celebrate each day at Rockwell Green C of E Primary School. 'Sharing life in all its fullness' is about living a varied life full of  learning, growing, helping, joy, excitement and caring for each other. This means we can flourish.  At school we have reflected on what 'Sharinglife in all its fullness' means to us. 

Here are some examples of our reflections:

'Help and care for each other. When someone falls over help them to get up.'

'Treat others as you would like to be treated.'

'Make the most of your opportunities.'

'Always do your best in everything you do.'

To support the children in developing an understanding of what this verse means to them it is modelled and shared continually within the school. Our vision underpins our learning academically, physically, socially and spiritually.

Reception and the KS1 classes had their Harvest Service in the school hall on Wednesday 8th October.

Reception sang a nursery rhyme about harvest to the tune of 'Here We Go Round A Mulberry Bush'.

Year 1 recited an acrostic Harvest poem.

Year 2 talked about the history of harvest and why we celebrate it.

They all did really well and sang the harvest hymns beautifully.

Rev. Andy also spoke about harvest and how it would be a better world if we shared the food and money equally so that everyone could be fed.

Well done Reception and KS1.

KS2 held their Harvest Service this week at All Saints church. 

Year 3 sang 'Harvest Rock and Roll'

Year 4 sang 'Let It Grow'

Year 5 sang 'Harvest for the World'

Year 6 sang 'Lord of the Harvest'. The singing leaders sang a verse together and The Values Ambassadors read a prayer.

As part of our work towards being 'Agents of Change' the Year 5 have thought about what they can do as part of their Civic Awards.  The Civic Award is organised by Wellington Town Council to promote Community, Citizenship and Confidence.  To start the award, the children visited the council offices and learnt about the work the council do.  Over the year, the children have taken part in a variety of activities - they have learnt a new physical and mental skill outside of school; researched a charity as a group and presented this information to the class having carried out an independent research project.  They have also chosen to raise money for the charity they have researched.  At the end of the project, the children are presented with a certificate by the mayor.

So far they have had cake sales and jewellery sales to raise money for:

• The World Wildlife Fund and adopting a rhino and gorilla. 
• Young Lives Vs Cancer
• Cancer Research
• The Archie Project
• RSPCA
• St Giles Animal Centre
• The Blue Cross

The Children have now been given their award by The Mayor of Wellington Janet Lloyd.

Years 3, 4 , 5 and 6 attended All Saints Church on Friday 4th April for their Easter Service.

The children from Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 held an Easter Service at All Saints Church on Wednesday 2nd April 2025.

Year 2 narrated the Easter story, throughout the service, from the perspective of the Donkey who travelled with Jesus into Jerusalem. Reception performed the nursery rhyme  'Hot Cross Buns' and explained the meaning behind why these are traditionally eaten by Christians at Easter time. Year 1 recited a poem called 'The Colours of Easter' .

Afterwards, we had an Easter Address from Rev. Andy who explained that Jelly Babies were originally called 'Peace Babies', as they were made/introduced after World War 1, and the colours of the sweets had significant meaning!

If you look closely at the Jelly Babies they have different articles on them too.

The black jelly baby has a heart on it which symbolises Gods love.

The green jelly baby is crying which illustrates human misery.

The pink jelly baby is an actual baby which pointed to the need of being born again (incarnation).

The red jelly baby has a big B on its chest which represents a Jesus dying on the cross and blood being spilt (Salvation).

The yellow jelly baby has a necklace around it which was to illustrate the riches and treasures of the Christian life whilst the orange baby is carrying a bag which illustrated the need of being prepared for the Christian walk.

All the classes performed superbly and listened beautifully whilst Rev. Andy spoke. 

Well done to all involved!

At the end of each term the house with the most points get to take part in a craft afternoon.

This term Mendip House had the most points and the children got to make Easter Gardens. They used soil, clay, moss and flowers to do this. They looked amazing and the children looked very engaged and on task whilst they were making them.

Thanks to Ms Ravenscroft for organising and resourcing this craft.

Every month a class takes flowers to the war graves at our local cemetery. Year 3, Year 2 and Year 1 went in spring term and laid the flowers to show respect to the fallen soldiers. 

Courageous Advocacy - Agents of Change.

On Monday 31st March, Rosie from the Woodland Trust, took collective worship to explain about the work she and other members of the community have been involved in. 

One of the projects which is very close to our local area was planting over 3000 trees in the Basins. This has been called planting the 'Green Corridor.' Ms Ravenscroft has been involved here and has helped Rosie plant some of these trees.  Rosie explained that trees are good for us because they absorb carbon, and that as we are putting more carbon into the atmosphere, we need all the trees we can to keep taking that carbon back out of the atmosphere. Trees are also good to support our wildlife and by planting these trees they are  providing more habitats for these animals and creatures to live in.

As a school we are going to work with Rosie and her colleagues to become 'Agents of Change.' We want to be able to support our world, starting off with our immediate and local environment - the basins behind our school.

In the autumn term we will be working with the team and each class will get an opportunity to plant bulbs in a specific area to help support and encourage the natural ecosystem. I will update you all with more information nearer the time when plans have been finalised. 

In Reception we learnt about Shrove Tuesday which is also known as Pancake Day. We learnt that Shrove Tuesday is the last day before Lent starts. Lent is the Christian period leading up to Easter, when people often give up something. In the past, during Lent, Christians were not allowed to eat foods such as eggs, so to use them up before Lent began, people would mix them with other rich foods such as milk, flour and butter to make pancakes. This has since become a tradition and pancakes are usually eaten by everyone on Shrove Tuesday. 
This year Shrove Tuesday was on Tuesday 4th March. On Shrove Tuesday Reception had continuous provision activities linked to Shrove Tuesday and they also got to eat some pancakes.

Helena our School Chaplain visited all the classes twice over the spring term. On the first visit she taught the children about Jonah and Whale using Godly Play. Then after this the children made collages to show their favourite part of the story. On the second visit she spoke with the children about spirituality'. Spirituality can take place in any form - its how you as an individual find peace and comfort. We use the look up, look out look in. Looking up is seeing spirituality within God, Look Out is finding spirituality in the natural world around us and Look in is finding peace within yourself.  At the end of each session the children completed a craft linked to spirituality. Reception made a stain glass window with colours which made the children feel happy and peaceful.