Holy Cross Primary Catholic Voluntary Academy

Come and See - Religious Education

Look and Discover Islam

Week beginning Monday 25th April - This week, we have been learning all about the Islam faith.

Look and Discover Judaism

This week, Class 2 have looked and discovered Judaism. This included looking at Jewish artefacts, learning all about Shabbat, what it is and what it means and then we discovered how to make Challah bread, a bread that Jewish people have on Shabbat. We learnt lots and enjoyed making and tasting the bread as a class. To respect the Jewish faith, we looked at the Havdalah candle. We had a great week learning about the Jewish faith. Miss Duong

Hinduism Week

This week we have been looking, discovering and respecting Hinduism. We have looked at what a home shrine is, what a puja tray us and what items we may out in it, learnt about the Festival of Light, listened to Indian music and today we made our own puja trays too. We enjoyed Hinduism week and learnt lots. Great work and learning Year 2, Miss Duong.

30.1.20 Year 6 Come and See work

Today, we read our work to Year 2, how to live like Jesus in our world and gave reasons for this. All of the children listened well and all of the Year 6 children have worked hard. Brilliant Come and See work Year 6. A proud Mrs Simpson.

Look and Discover Judaism By Class 2

This week, Class 2 have looked and discovered Judaism. This included looking at Jewish artefacts, learning all about Shabbat, what it is and what it means and then we discovered how to make Challah bread, a bread that Jewish people have on Shabbat. We learnt lots and enjoyed making and tasting the bread as a class. To respect the Jewish faith, we looked at the Havdalah candle and for homework this week, we designed our own. We had a great week learning about the Jewish faith. Miss Duong

A Simple Seder Meal by Class 5

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Collective Worships

Social Justice by Class 6

Class 6 planned and delivered our seventh Collective Worship assembly linked to one of our seven Curriculum Themes.

Movement of People by Class 4

Class 4 planned and delivered our fifth Collective Worship assembly linked to one of our seven Curriculum Themes.

Cultural Similarities and Differences by Class 3

Class 3 planned and delivered our fourth Collective Worship assembly linked to one of our seven Curriculum Themes.

Farming by Class 2

Class 2 planned and delivered our third Collective Worship linked to one of our seven Curriculum Themes. Class 2 did a fantastic job in their first ever assembly since starting at Holy Cross. They spoke clearly and sang beautifully. Thanking for filming this for our parents who couldn’t attend Mrs Bruce.

Community by Class 1

Class 1 planned and delivered our second Collective Worship linked to one of our seven Curriculum Themes.

Keeping Safe and Healthy by Class Reception

Class Reception planned and delivered our first Collective Worship linked to one of our seven Curriculum Themes.

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Whole School

Key Stage 1 guitar concert

Thank you to Mr Smith and the children in Year 2. Thank you to our parents who came to join us too.

Holy Cross celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022

The children and staff had a fantastic day celebrating a piece of history. They celebrated the Queen’s 70 years as our monarch. We mixed the children up so there were children from each class in each group and they worked together to take part in Jubilee activities, had a street party lunch on the playground, sang the National Anthem, prayed for the Queen, had Jubilee cake and listened to the Queen’s favourite hymn during our whole school photo. Congratulations to Her Majesty!

24.5.22 Our School Councillors lead our assembly

What a lovely assembly led by the School Councillors today. They introduced us to our new House Point names and informed us that we would be grouped into these, along with rewards we could achieve. They also drew our Rainbow Raffle. We raised £500 for our Rainbow Retreat which will contribute to purchasing items to furnish our Rainbow Retreat. Thank you for all of your hard work.

Key Stage 2 guitar concert

21.4.22 The arrival of The Rainbow Retreat

Some of the children were lucky enough to see The Rainbow Retreat arrive today. Thank you so much to Miss Teresa for bidding for this and providing what will be a lovely retreat space for the children of Holy Cross. Thank you again Miss Teresa.

Mini Christmas Fair 2021

Thank you to all our our parents for their donations and support. The children enjoyed our mini Christmas fair.

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Class 2

23.6.22 Class 2 Sports Day

Thank you for all of your support today. The children really enjoyed seeing their parents and careers cheering them on. What a lovely afternoon.

15.6.22 Class 2 visit White Post Farm

We had a fantastic day today feeding, stroking and being near all of the wonderful animals at the farm. Thank you to all our adult helpers.

D&T project - design and make a puppet

During the Lenten term, we completed a 8 week project. Here are some of the highlights of what we did. Amazing job Class 2, well done, Miss Duong.

10.5.22 Practical Lesson on movement and turns

Today, we consolidated our learning of left, right, clockwise, anti-clockwise and the number of turns. We used concrete objects to help support our learning and this helped us to understand which direction to turn.

4.5.22 Our visit to Pizza Express

Today we went to Pizza Express in West Bridgford to make our very own pizzas. We have been learning about growing wheat and how we need this to make the flour needed to make the dough for the base. We had a great time. Thank you all of our helpers today, Miss Duong.

Islam Week

We have been learning about the Five Pillars of the Islam faith. We have also learnt about how they pray and the number of times of they pray each day. We made our very own prayer mats. We have enjoyed learning about Islam.

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