Year 2 RE visit

On Monday, Year 2 had a visit from Reverend Sarah as part of our RE learning about Christianity. We wanted to learn about our local church, why Christians go to church and what they do there.

We began the session underneath a piece of cloth that represented the a tent under the night sky as this is what the very first Christians did. They would gather together to share their worship of God. When they started building houses for themselves, they thought that the place where they worshipped God should also be a house, and so they started building big houses to hold people in. These eventually became temples then Churches as we know them today.

Christians listen to stories of the bible when they go to church, so Reverend Sarah shared some stories with us. We listened to the story of the Good Shepard, which explains communion, which is the sharing of bread and wine in Christian churches. As she told the story, she used figurines to demonstrate it.

We  also asked Reverend Sarah some questions that we had about about Christianity and the church and we discussed what people do there (weddings, celebrations, praying, singing). We then looked at pictures of different churches, and discussed that although they were different, they all brought people together so that they could worship God. We discussed how this was similar for other religions where they have places of worship. We then looked at pictures of Reverend Sarah's church, and we talked about the different elements that make it up, and what these are used for (such as the font, the altar, and the bible). 

Reverend Sarah explained that churches not only bring people together, but it is also a space for quiet reflection. We have created a space in our classroom so that we can have a calm place to reflect about our day.