'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.

KS2 attended church on Friday 20th December for their Christmas Carol Service.

The children in Badger Class performed their Nativity - A King is Born - in the afternoon on Wednesday 18th December 2024.

They were amazing! Two of the Year 6s narrated whilst the children sang and danced their little hearts out re-telling the story of the birth of Jesus.

KS1 attended All Saints Church on Wednesday 18th December in the morning for their Christmas Service. 

The Nativity story was narrated by Kingfishers (Year 2) and this was acted out by Hedgehogs (Year 1).

They sang Little Donkey, Away in the Manger and lots of other traditional Christmas carols.

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 attended All Saints Church for a Crib Service held by Rev. Andy and our School Chaplin Helena.

We were told the Nativity story and sang some carols - 'Little Donkey' and 'Away in a Manger'.

Afterwards, we wrote on a present what we hoped to receive for Christmas this year.

It was a very peaceful and relaxed service and the children enjoyed visiting the Church at this special time.

All Saints Church held a Christmas Tree Festival on 7th and 8th December which we took part in.

Every child in school made a Christmas Tree decoration using a green milk lid and used 'bits and bobs' found in school to decorate them.

The Value Ambassadors decorated the tree which was then taken up to the church for the Festival.  As only a certain amount could go on the tree the ones left over have been used to decorate our school Christmas Tree.

Every year each class makes a poppy display to remember the fallen soldiers. Here are all the beautiful poppy displays created by the classes.

Our two Harvest services were a joyful celebration and the children were again a credit to both themselves and the school in the way in which they performed and sung. KS2 held a Harvest service at All Saints Church. KS1 and Reception held a Harvest celebration in the school hall.

Thank you very much for the Harvest donations this week. They have been greatly received by Besom and they will go to others in need.

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

This term Brendan 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.

Helena our School Chaplin visited all the classes over the second half of spring term to talk to the children about the Easter story. At the end of each session the children completed a craft linked to Easter.

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 went to All Saints Church to hold an Easter Service.

Year 2 led the service by re-telling the events that lead up to Easter and the following days. Reception sang the nursery rhyme 'Hot Cross Buns' and explained the reason why Christians eat these at Easter time. Year 1 recited an acrostic poem about Easter.

They children performed well and sang the Easter Songs beautifully.

Well done KS1 and EYFS!

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