From the Chaplain

Next Wednesday on 5 April at 11.55am, we will be holding an Easter Service for the whole school.  Parents/guardians and guests are most welcome to attend.  Students from most year groups will be participating by either reading something or sharing what they have learnt in class.  The school choir will perform and the whole school will be singing our new school hymn, ‘The Servant King’.   

Some Year Five students will be sharing what they did in class.  They were given some Easter treats, which represented things from the Easter story.  They then arranged them in decorative manner before they ate them. They were given: 

• 2 pretzel sticks to represent the cross 
• Red cranberries to represent the blood shed for us on the cross 
• White marshmallows to represent our sin that has been washed white by Jesus 
• A lifesaver lolly, as Jesus is our life saver 
• A rice cracker to represent the stone that was placed in front of the tomb
• An Easter egg to represent the empty tomb. The tomb is empty because Jesus rose from the dead and is no longer in the tomb. 

Mr Sarre has made a magnificent wooden cross, with chicken wire wrapped around it.  The Year Six students are going to place flowers and decorations on the cross at the end of the service.  This is to show that the cross was at first an ugly, awful thing that was used to murder people, but how Jesus turned the cross into a beautiful thing by dying for us because he loved us so much.  The flowers will symbolise the beauty of the cross. 

I hope that you can join us at our Easter Service to remember the true meaning of Easter.  A day to celebrate, for the hope of salvation.   

Romans 10:9: "If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." 

Mrs Naomi Cooper | Chaplain