Year 1: Gallery
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:48pm
Year 1 have made posters for our display, all about Ash Wednesday!
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:44pm
Thank you all for coming to our Celebration of the Word!
Galilee to Jerusalem activities
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:42pm
Year 1 have enjoyed our new branch, Galilee to Jerusalem.
The children have made special candle holders for Candlemas!
They have helped to construct a temple in our small world area to help us remember 'The Boy Jesus in the Temple'.
Year 1 - Celebration of the Word - Christ the King
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:38pm
Year 2 - Celebration of the Word - World Children’s Day
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:37pm
Year 1 Celebration of the Word - Gift of Life for Zambia
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:36pm
Year 1 led the Celebration of the Word - Gift of Life for Zambia
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:30pm
This week, we have been learning about The Nicene Creed.
'I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.'
The children decorated a mini box of love to take home to their families.
Date: 17th Mar 2026 @ 10:19pm
Year 1 have been learning all about The Creation Story. We have enjoyed using our golden box to retell the story.
We have made some beautiful artwork to display in our classroom to help us remember.
Year 1 have also enjoyed making masks and retelling the story with their friends.
Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 9:09am
Our World Book Day celebrations and reading hour with parents
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.
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.
NSPCC Number Day in Year 1 - 7th February 2025
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 10:38pm
The children loved welcoming some of our parents in for a special maths hour this morning and proudly wore their number outfits!
It was great to raise money for the NSPCC and also to have fun with numbers.
Our carousel of activities included emoji code breaking, secret picture calculations, dice - more/less game and the cube game.
All of these helped to develop our counting and calculation skills.
It was also a good chance to show our grown ups the type of equipment we use in school to help us with maths.
KS1 Child led Celebration of the Word - Justice (January 2025)
Date: 1st Feb 2025 @ 8:38pm
This week, children in Year One helped to plan our celebration of the Word for Reception and Year two.
We enjoyed reflecting on what we have learned about Justice and reminding each other how important this is.
The scripture from Micah 6: 6-8 is becoming a real favourite for the children, particularly because they love singing about it!
"The song was my best bit today!" - Harry
"It's all about being fair." - Delilah
"We should always share." - Clay
"I liked sitting in a semi circle for this celebration." - Kit
"We should have put our Justice sign on the table too!" - Meredith
Jubilee Year launch - Pilgrims of Hope - January 24th 2025
Date: 26th Jan 2025 @ 11:42am
Our school community came together for an amazing launch for the very special Jubilee Year.
A Jubilee is celebrated within the Catholic church every 25 years. This year the theme will be 'Pilgrims of Hope'.
We are called together to experience joy and strength as we embarkon a journey to be 'agents of change,' working together for justice, love and peace, locally and globally.
After learning about the importance and theme of the Jubilee, the children across school have Celebrated the Word and written their own pledges.
We gathered together to reflect and share pledges before displaying them all around the hall.
We are excited for more events to come during the Jubilee Year and are filled with hope for the difference we can make in fulfilling our pledges!
Whole School - Justice Days - 15th and 16th January 2025
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 3:03pm
The children have really enjoyed the past two 'Justice days'. They have focused on this particular house value and have taken part in a wide range of activities centred around the the theme of justice. Below is list of activities they have taken part in;
What is Justice?- First the children watched videos and learned about what Justice means. They then identified as a group what justice looks like in school, at home, in our communities and in the wider world.
St Oscar Romero- The children increased their knowledge about St Oscar Romero through different resources and created a fact file on his life focussing on his fight for justice. In KS1 the children found out about the significance of the Romero cross and the local people who make them in El Salvador.
St Mother Teresa- The children loved learning about St Mother Teresa and her selfless life and fight for justice. They took part in various debates and activities focussing on the timeline of her life.
DJ the Dolphin- The children had a little refresher on what the CAFOD character DJ the Dolphin represents within Catholic social teaching.
Justice circle- The children enjoyed circle time focussed on the theme of Justice.
Fairtrade Banana game- KS2 children learned all about fairtrade when selling bananas and took part in some intense discussions regarding pay for each group or person in the chain.
One for you, three for me - KS1 children took part in a craft activity to create their own ideal meal on a plate. They were then given a 'meal ticket' and many were shocked to discover that only a third of the class received would receive their own meal plate, the remaining children were entitled to a plate of rice. We talked about how this did not seem fair or 'just' but was something that is real for many people in our world.
P4C- The children absolutely loved taking part in the "Is it fair?" game. They also discussed and debated about Blind Justice.
Wordle- The children created their own wordles based around the word 'Justice'.
Music- The children listened to songs relating to justice and identified the meanings behind them. They also added in some of their own verses as well as actions.
Prayer spaces - The children participated enthusiastically in a range of reflective activities linked to our Justice theme which included: Scripture art based on Micah 6: 6-8 to 'Act justly, love mercy and walk humbly'. Creating a justice cross using relevant words, images and symbols that they had found out about. 'International injustice' station at which the children located places on a world map where the people living there may need our prayers for justice. We placed candles over these places and prayed together.
Prayer writing - discussing ideas together and writing our own prayers for justice.
Art - children across the school worked with Miss Crowley on a special Justice themed art project which will soon be displayed in school.
Year 1 R.E. Advent and Christmas learning activities
Date: 2nd Jan 2025 @ 10:53pm
During November and December Year 1 have enjoyed learning activities linked to our R.E. branch about ‘Prophecy and Promise.’
In our enhanced provision area, the children had the opportunity to choose some fun and practical tasks to reinforce our teaching inputs in class.
We have loved art work linked to the Bible story of the Annunciation when Angel Gabriel visited Mary with a special message.
We used paintings of this event, by different artists, to inspire us! The light surrounding the Angel was a special feature we noticed and recreated.
Other popular activities have been….
Playdough modelling of scenes and characters from the Nativity.
Sequencing of images to create our own mini Nativity books.
Drama and role play using our stick puppets.
Making our own Christmas card with the scene in the stable – complete with an opening door!
Card sorting activity – looking at images on a range of cards and sorting them into groups of those that retell the Nativity story and those which show other scenes of modern Christmas images.
Painting baby Jesus pebbles
We hope you enjoyed the special things that we made for you and brought home to share!
Year 1 Christmas fun - December 2024
Date: 2nd Jan 2025 @ 10:30pm
Year 1 have loved the different activities and celebrations taking place during December.
We felt very festive wearing our Christmas jumpers and performing our poem about Santa's Sleigh Ride at the Coffee morning!
We also sang our favourite songs from the performance of 'Christmas Recipe'.
We have been lucky enough to enjoy Christmas dinner, disco and party days too.
On the final day of term we took part in Christmas bingo and a Reindeer game led by Mrs Sheppard.
Y1 & Y2 - Christmas Nativity - The Christmas Recipe
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 12:28pm
We loved sharing the story of the Nativity in a very different way this year.
We all agree that the vital ingredient in our Christmjas Recipe is baby Jesus!
Whole School - Christmas Pantomime - The Emperor's New Clothes
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 9:28am
We all had an amazing morning laughing and joining in with our annual pantomine from Altru Drama
KS1 Child led worship - The first week of Advent
Date: 10th Dec 2024 @ 9:29am
Year 1 guided us through a special and exciting worship about the beginning of Advent.
They enjoyed selecting and placing relevant items on the focus table, including an Advent calendar.
We used the colour purple, which Christians use during this important season.
"We are all getting ready for Jesus' Birthday" - Oliver
"I am excited for Jesus' Birthday" - Dexter
"Today the message in Advent worship is about hope" - Jonas
"It made me a bit sad because some people don't really have hope" Harry
"I liked closing our eyes today to think" - Grace
Together, we thought about how we could bring hope to others. We prayed for them together.
Whole School - Baptism Friday 22nd November 2024
Date: 1st Dec 2024 @ 12:46pm
The families of Tommy, Billy, Teddy, Ezra and Zach joined the whole school as we came together for an amazing celebration in the school hall.
Father Mark Moran welcomed brothers Tommy, Billy and Teddy with a special Catholic blessing.
Ezra and Zach were then baptised as we all watched on, what an amazing experience to be part of!
Congratulations to all of the boys and their families - we hope you enjoyed your special celebration, including the cake afterwards!
Thank you for sharing such a proud and important day with your St Basil's family.
Date: 23rd Nov 2024 @ 9:31am
Year 1 are loving their Hockey lessons this half term and are making great progress.
They have been learning how to handle and use their hockey stick safely (like a dog on a lead!)
Their skills in using the hockey stick to control a ball effectively, are improving with each lesson.
This week we loved playing a version of Hungry Hippos to compete against other teams to retrieve balls from the middle.
