Religious Education: Gallery
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 1:39pm
In groups, year 3 talked about and dramatised what happens during the offertory procession. They each took part in being the priest and the congregation and through readings and responses.
CAFOD Family Fast Day Simple lunch 2nd October 2026
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:29pm
A group of twenty children from Key Stage 2 participated in a special 'simple lunch' today.
The children wanted to show solidarity with others around the world who are less fortunate.
They sacrificed their usual dinner for a simple meal of soup, bread, salad and fruit.
We are so proud of the maturity that they showed in making this decision and for taking part.
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:57pm
This week, we explored The Lord's Prayer. We used watercolours to create our own paper chain of the prayer to have and say at home.
Y2 RE - Visit to Church: Baptism
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 3:05pm
As part of our learning about God's covenant we have focused on the Sacrament of Baptism. We focused on the 4 key symbols; the white garment, the Holy water, Holy oil and the candle. When we visited church we saw the Pascal candle, the font and we ordered the key stages of the Baptism.
Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 9:30pm
The children from Year 6 came over to visit Early Years to meet their Prayer partners.
The children enjoyed learning each others names and getting to know one another as they played.
It was especially nice to see Year 6 helping their partners as they learn how to make the sign of the cross.
We are looking forward to spending time together throughout the year for lots of special activities.
Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 1:18pm
As a part of their creation and covenant unit, year 3 have used their artistic skills to draw a representation of one of the days from the creation story and colour it in using oil pastels.
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 3:11pm
Today, we learnt about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur in our whole school assembly. We learnt that during Yom Kippur Jewish people wear white and think about asking God for forgiveness. They also pray five special prayers during that special day.
Y5 Salt Dough Ten Commandments
Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 2:28pm
In RE today, we discussed The Ten Commandments and explained which one we thought was the most important one. We then made stone tablets using salt dough and wrote the commandment we thought was most important on it.
Y6 Salt Dough Ten Commandments
Date: 22nd Sep 2026 @ 2:27pm
We discussed The Ten Commandments and then made stone tablets using salt dough and wrote on the commandment which we thought was the most important one.
Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 3:46pm
As our first focus in our RE branch Creation and Covenant we have heard the story of Noah's Ark and God's promise to the world. We represented this with two different Art craft activities
Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 8:12am
In RE, Year 1 explored the Creation Story. We looked at how God created the animals and creatures on Earth. We used play dough to create a model of the animals and created masks on the animals.
Mission Together After School Club - Summer term 2026
Date: 7th Jul 2026 @ 9:00pm
This term we have been thrilled to launch the first ever Mission Together After School Club nationally.
Over the term, a group of enthusiastic Year three pupils have attended and participated with some fun and important activities.
On the 2nd of July, we were so excited to welcome Claire Colleran from Mission Together to our session, to show her what we have been up to!
Claire brought along a special surprise - the brand new official Charity mascot - Missio Mouse ( Mi Mo!)
It has been wonderful to see how keen the children are to learn about and help children around the world.
We hope to recruit even more members across the school in the next school year.
Date: 13th Apr 2026 @ 10:26pm
During our final week of term the children from Year 1 to Year 6 visited Church for a very special prayer spaces experience.
When each class arrived for their allocated time slot, the children entered 'Jerusalem' to encounter the Palm Sunday procession.
After hearing the scripture from the Bible, the children then enjoyed making their own palm leaves with greetings written on such as, 'Hosanna' and 'Praise Him!'
Following this, a gathering took place to represent the 'Last Supper' at the side of church.
The children heard from the Bible reading how, in an act of great service, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples at this meal.
Modelled by their teachers first, three volunteers from each class then acted in the role of Jesus and washed the hands of their classmates.
Finally, the children gathered around the wooden cross, made by our Site Manager Mr Wood.
They spent time listening to the scripture about Good Friday and reflecting on forgiveness before adding their own post it note message to the cross.
We are so proud of the children for engaging so reverently in this special event to mark the events of Holy week.
On the last day of term, we gathered as a whole school family and also welcomed Reception class to join our Celebration of the Word.
Thank you to Year 6, who shared the Stations of the Cross with us.
It was a wonderful sight to see each child waving their own palm leaf at the relevant moment as we sang together!
Date: 18th Mar 2026 @ 8:03am
As part of our unit of work in RE after we focused on the Parable of the Sower we took Jesus' meaning of the story and applied it ourselves. Thinking about how when we sow or grow something it is like the Kingdom of God growing in our our hearts. We joined with Year 4 and planted some more fruit trees on our school field to help us remember the meaning ourselves
Date: 18th Mar 2026 @ 7:59am
We focused on the scripture of Jesus' miracle of the loaves. We made our own baskets filled with 5 loaves and 2 fish and wrote on the back of each one small thing we could do to help others as Jesus encouraged his disciples by saying 'you yourselves give them something to eat'
Year 3 Celebration of the Word Mission Together
Date: 18th Mar 2026 @ 7:57am
Our class planned and led our Thursday Celebration this week all about our Lent Charity, Mission Together. We wrote our own prayers and encouraged people to ask for donations this Lent.
Mission Together Lenten campaign - Spring term 2026
Date: 16th Mar 2026 @ 2:29pm
On Friday the 27th of February, Claire Colleran visited school to share information about the work of the charity Mission Together.
Mission Together is the children’s branch of Missio – the Catholic Church’s official charity for overseas mission.
Mission Together’s aim is to support life-giving children’s projects in places of poverty and turmoil, and to support the mission of Catholic education.
Mission Together work in over 150 countries around the world, supporting children in need.
This Lent, St Basil's want to support this amazing charity and we have had a great time on our fundraising event for them.
During the afternoon on Friday 27th March, the children went outside and worked in their house teams, each linked to a continent.
They collected and delivered 'Together tickets' to different locations around the school grounds, which represented the places that Mission Together supports.
It was a lot of fun and helped us to raise money all at the same time!
Together we have managed to raise £221.09. Thank you to everybody for supporting us!
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:36pm
We learnt about road safety in today's assembly and the importance of keeping safe on and around roads.
Family Fast Day Simple lunch: 3rd October 2025 and 27th February 2026
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 9:48pm
On the 3rd of October, a large and enthusiastic group of nearly 40 Key Stage two pupils, joined us for a special lunch.
To mark CAFOD family fast day, we focused on 'living simply' in order to show solidarity with those who live in need.
Our 'simple' lunch consisted of soup and bread with fruit. It reminded us of others around the world who live without luxuries.
In particular, we were delighted to welcome some year three pupils to this event for the first time.
Well done and thank you to all the pupils and staff who took part in such an important event.
During Lent, we invited KS2 pupils to participate in this event once more, on Friday the 27th of February,
Again, we were so proud to see many returning faces, along with some new ones, to pledge their support.
Sacrament of First Holy Communion
Date: 13th May 2025 @ 1:11pm
On Saturday the 10th of May a special Mass was held by Father Peter Ross at St Basil’s Church.
We celebrated the First Holy Communion of fourteen of our children on this beautiful day.
The children looked wonderful and behaved so reverently, we are all very proud of you.
Congratulations to all of the children and their families, we are looking forward to celebrating with the rest of your school family too.
'Delivering Mary's Meals' Lenten Fundraiser event : 27th March 2025
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 9:09pm
The children enjoyed an active and fun filled afternoon delivering 'meal tickets' to different locations around the school field.
Each location was marked with a flag that linked to one of four countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
These countries are the focus of Mary's Meals current Emergency appeal - people here are experiencing the worst drought in 100 years.
Also at each country base on the field, was a post box for the meal tickets being delivered by the children.
Each ticket delivered was marked on the children's individual delivery cards by an adult posted at the station.
Donations have been made across the school by children and staff to support this special event, raising over £325! Well done everybody!
CAFOD Lent Family Fast Day - Friday 14th March 2025
Date: 15th Mar 2025 @ 9:38pm
In our whole school Celebration of the Word at the start of the day, we prayed for all those in need at at this time.
We shared the importance of CAFOD's Family Fast day and the link to our Lenten promises.
At lunchtime a large group of KS2 pupils chose to share in a 'simple lunch' of soup, bread and fruit, instead of their usual hot dinner.
Several children also brought in a simple packed lunch so that they could also participate.
We were joined by some of our governors and staff as we sat together to share the meal.
Thank you and well done to all of the pupils involved. It is lovely to see growing numbers with each 'simple lunch' that we hold.
We hope that this special event will continue to be a feature on each CAFOD Fast day - both at Harvest time in October and during Lent.
KS1 Child led Collective Worship - Lent (6th March 2025)
Date: 10th Mar 2025 @ 11:16am
The children in Year One helped to plan a celebration of the Word for Reception and Year two on the theme of Lent.
After our Ash Wednesday service yesterday everybody knows how important this special season is for Christians.
We chose the scripture about Jesus in the desert to remind us about why there are 40 days of Lent.
It was good to remind the other children about what they can do themselves during Lent. We have all been learning about this in RE too.
Our mission at the end of our celebration is to help, along with the rest of the school, to really make a difference to the lives of others this Lent.
Here are some of our thoughts after the celebration:
"It made me want to help people." - Harper
"I felt quiet in worship." - Matthew
"We know our Gather responses much better now!" - Jonas
"Today it made me feel proud of being a Christian." - Kit
"I will do extra prayers in Lent" - Zach
"We will do more good things and extra thinking." - Delilah
"We could sing 'Come and join the circle' next time." - Polly
Mary's Meals - A visit from Anna Houghton
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 8:52pm
Today we were visited by Anna from Mary's Meals.
Anna spent time with all of the the children to explain all about the important work of the charity in providing hungry children with meals.
We saw on the map the sixteen different countries in which they are working hard to help feed children.
During Lent, our school family have pledged to support Mary's Meals and do what we can to share our love, prayers, time and effort just like Jesus did.
We hope that we can share information with our families and friends about this incredible charity and help to raise some money to pay for meals.
To feed a child one meal costs just 10p. Let's see how many meals we can pay for!
Each classroom has a collection pot for any coins you may like to donate over the coming weeks.
We are also planning an exciting fundraiser at the end of the March too.
Y1 Parent Celebration of the Word - Galilee to Jerusalem (12th February 2025)
Date: 19th Feb 2025 @ 2:17pm
Year one loved celebrating our branch 'Galilee to Jerusalem' with our parents and the children from Reception and Year two.
We acted out two of our favourite pieces of scripture from Luke's Gospel, about 'Jesus and the Little Children,' and 'The Presentation of the Lord.'
The most important message that we were able to share with everybody, was about Jesus being like a light for the world.
Our dance to the song, 'Here I Am to Worship' helped us to show this and so did the beautiful candle holders we had made to take home to our families with tea lights glowing inside.
We also shared what we had learned about the Christian Feast of Candlemas which takes place each year.
The happiest parts of our celebration, were inviting everyone to sing 'Share the light' and 'Love like Jesus did' with us. We were so pleased to see and hear some parents and children joining in too - thank you!
Praying together was so special and we are excited for the next time we will do this together.
Here are some of the things that our parents said after the Celebration:
"Children you really helped me to think about the love of Jesus - thank you."
"I enjoyed everything about the worship but especially the singing."
"The message that I experienced was that we are all blessed."
"Children continue to pass the word."
These are the words that were used to describe how our Celebrtaion of the Word made our parents feel: happy, humble, proud, lovely, together, amazing, joyful, thoughtful, emotional and blessed.
