Y1 Parent Celebration of the Word - Galilee to Jerusalem (12th February 2025)

Lesson: Religious education

Class: Celebration of the Word Year: 2024 - 2025

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.