St Basil's Catholic Primary School: Celebration of the Word: Gallery

Y5 Parent Celebration of the Word - The Jesse Tree

Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 9:21am

Year 5 held a beautiful Celebration of the Word in church for family members and others in our local community. The focus was the story of the Jesse Tree.

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.

Y5 - Parent Collective Worship - Life Choices

Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 10:07am

On Wednesday 20th November Year 5 delievered a Collective Worship to parents all about Life Choices. The children sang hymns, said prayers and created a receipe for a good friendship. We have had some lovely feedback from the parents. Thank you for coming.

Y3 Year of Prayer CW

Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 2:34pm

Year 3 delivered a collective worship about our Year of Prayer to LKS2 and talked about the importance of taking time out of our days to pray.

Y4 - Parent Collective Worship - Remembrance

Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 2:30pm

On Wednesday 13th November, Year 4 delivered a special collective worship about Remembrance to Year 3 and our adults.

We listened to the words of Matthew 5.1-12 and thought about how we could create a more peaceful world. We talked about the importance of Remembrance and how we remember others in the month of November. We sang songs including "We will remember them, Peace Perfect Peace and Imagine." The children created some art work to match a poem, created a role play to show Remembrance and choreographed a dance to the song "Imagine."

Parent feedback

"This collective worship was very moving"

"It was lovely to have time to stop and think"

"The children all read beautifully and sang very well"

"My favourite part was the songs."

Pupil voice:

"I enjoyed singing the songs."

"I liked taking part in the dance"

Y1 Harvest Collective Worship for KS1

Date: 22nd Oct 2024 @ 12:53pm

KS1 enjoyed a special worship led by a group of children from Year 1 on the theme of Harvest.

We heard an amazing story from the Bible in which Jesus and his disciples were able to feed 5000 people using only five loaves and two fish.

The children shared the CAFOD characters of Shrist the Sun bear and DJ the dolphin to show how we can also help to feed hungry people here in Widnes.

We asked if anybody was able to bring in boxes of cereal for the Foodbank. Doing this shows we are living in solidarity, just like Shristi the bear.

We are also helping to make sure that everyone has their fair share, which DJ says is called Distributive Justice.

Here is what some children thought and said after our Worship:

'I liked praying' - Ella

'I'm bringing a cereal box in so I can help' - Kit

'I loved that story about the food' - Roman

'It made me want to pray' - Delilah

Whole School: Blessing of Mary in memory of Christine Wilson

Date: 22nd Oct 2024 @ 12:28pm

On Wednesday 16th October we gathered as a school family to remember Christine Wilson with Father Peter Ross.

Christine was a much loved and valued member of St Basil's and a former Chair of Governors.

We also welcomed Jim Wilson and members of their family, as well as some close friends.

Father Peter led us in prayer and dedicated our new statue of Mary to the memory of Christine, significant particularly during this special month of October.

The children shared in the our liturgy with readings and prayers, as well as with their absolutely beautiful singing.

The occasion was a heartfelt tribute which warmed all of our hearts and provided a lasting memory to treasure.

Y5 Child led Collective Worship

Date: 22nd Oct 2024 @ 9:32am

Some of the pupils from Y5CG planned a wonderful collective worship on Our Lady of They Rosary. They included three different hymns and scripture from the Bible.

Y5 Mass

Date: 22nd Oct 2024 @ 9:26am

Year 5 attended Mass at the church and were exemplary in representing our school within the local parish community. It was the perfect way to start the week.

Y6 - Parent Collective Worship - Justice

Date: 7th Oct 2024 @ 1:30pm

Year 6 led a Collective Worship on our school theme for the year which is justice.

We explored the theme of justice and explained the meaning of this and how we can be just in our lives.

We explored the theme of justice through song, drama, prayer and scripture.

Y4 - Collective Worship for LKS2 - Pope Francis and Our Common Home

Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 8:16am

Today 4CS planned and delivered their Collective Worship based on Pope Francis,

They took his message to look after our common home and shared ideas on stewardship.

Maro wrote her own prayer for our respond section which we read together.

Lola and Lucy thought about what we could Go Forth and do in the week ahead to appreciate and admire God's world.

"It really made me think about how great the world is" - Henry

"I would have liked to sing another song about the world at the end" - Annie

Y1 - Collective Worship for KS1 - Pope Francis

Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 10:14pm

Another group of children from Year one took a turn in planning their own Collective Worship today with help from Mrs Devonport and Mrs Dooley.

They confidently chose important items to add to the focus table, including a photo of Pope Francis.

We heard a story from the Bible about the first Pope, Simon Peter. Jesus called him a rock!

We thought about what makes somebody a good leader and the children shared words to describe important qualities for our Pope.

We ended by all saying the Pope's prayer for children from his charity, Mission Together.

These are some of the things we said when we talked about how our Collective Worship had gone today:

"I was proud of the special table I helped with today" - Harry

"I want to be kind like Pope Francis" - Jonas "And loving" - Zach

"I really liked the children's prayer" - Joel

"I would really like to have a little photo of Pope Francis" - Grace

Whole School Friday Worship - The Beatitudes

Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 7:53am

This week's Friday Collective Worship was based on the Beatitudes

Our RE Ambassadors helped Mrs O'Donnell and Mrs Dooley to deliver a collective worship reminding us of the Beatitudes and our work on them last year. We looked at the artwork that Year 3 and Year 4 completed, and thought about the links in the Beatitudes to Catholic Social Teaching

Y3 - Year of Prayer Collective Worship

Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 7:50am

3AW pupils helped to plan and deliver this week's collective worship based on the Year of Prayer.

We thought about when we pray and why we pray

We then chose a prayer from our KS2 prayer book to say together

Y1 - Collective Worship on Care for Our Common home

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 10:08pm

Children from 1DD helped to plan and deliver Collective Worship today for Key Stage One.

They thought about which music to use, what to have on our focus table and the reading and prayers we would share.

We reminded everybody about the letter that Pope Francis wrote to ask for help to care for his creation. This letter is called Laudato Si.

At the end of our Worship, we asked the children and grown ups to think about how they can each help to care for the earth and each other.

"I like doing the sign of the cross." - Clay

"I love gathering and singing." - Harper

"We should have put the Pope's picture on the table too." Meredith

"I feel happy about it." - Zach

"It made me feel calm." - Polly

Whole School Friday Worship - Catholic Social Teaching

Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 9:10am

Today we celebrated our first Friday Gospel Collective Worship with Mrs Sheppard.

It was all about Catholic Social Teaching

EYFS - Mother's Day Collective Worship

Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:56pm

Today we invited parents and carers to attend our Mother's Day Collective Worship.

Y3 - Parent Collective Worship - Building Bridges

Date: 1st Jul 2024 @ 5:01pm

At the end of our current topic 'Building Bridges' we gathered our parents for a Collective Worship.

Our theme was all about reconciliation, with God, each other and ourselves.

We performed a dance to 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and showed some of our art work that we had produced in lessons. This showed a friend that we were close to, and a way that we could make our friendship bridge stronger.

Y4 - Collective worship - Sacramental Celebration

Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 11:45am

Year 4 delivered a wonderful collective worship for parents and carers. The focus was on the sacrament of reconciliation and for those who took part in their Holy Communion.