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In addition to Collective Worship, children have the opportunity to participate in Reflective Time. This is time set aside for silent personal reflection and takes place in the hall with two classes at a time sharing the space. There are candles, relaxing music, soft mats and the lights are low – providing a calm and peaceful atmosphere to help nurture children’s spiritual development and to promote mindfulness.

The responses from these sessions has been extremely positive, both from the children and the staff. Here are some of the things the children have said:

“I thought about my family and how lucky I am.”
“I said The Lord’s Prayer and thought about the words in it.”
“It was good to take a breath and be quiet with my class.”

We also asked children how we could improve Reflective Time and had some thoughtful responses that we have put into place. For example, soft mats for the floor for comfort and being able to take their shoes off so that they could feel more relaxed.

What are you thankful for in your life? In what ways do you feel blessed? We will be posting our blessings in our special school blessings box throughout Lent. You can also post them below in the comments section.

As Lent is a time for reflecting on our blessings, we started the day by thinking about our wonderful world. In Collective Worship we discussed the sights that make us thankful. We read The Creation Story from The Bible and watched a video clip from the BBC’s Planet Earth. What sights around the world make you feel blessed?

Years 1 to 6 today were shown videos summarising the policies of the 5 main political parties of England. Afterwards, we held a poll in each class. The statement on the ballot paper was: ‘Choose your preferred party’.

Here are the results from our poll of 159 pupils…

Which parties do you think could form a coalition?

Here is this weeks DiGiNews.

One of the clubs being offered this term is DiGiNews. In the club, sever reporters are tasked with finding what is happening in the classrooms of Cathedral Primary School. Here is the very first edition of ‘DiGiNEWS’.

One of the new and exciting clubs at Cathedral School during Autumn Term has been ‘Creative Street Dance’ with Steph and Miss Hatherley.

All of the dancers have loved learning some great new dances moves.

This video showcases the wonderful dancers we have at Cathedral Primary School!