On Tuesday 28th February –Shrove Tuesday, Year 2 held a beautiful collective worship where children were sat in a circle with a tree in the centre as their focus point. We discussed the children’s understanding of Lent and were able to answer the following questions that we’d asked before half term:
- What does Lent lead up to?
- Why is Lent 40 days long?
- What do Christians do during Lent?
- When does Lent finish?
Children were extremely respectful throughout our collective worship and showed us just how good they are as friends when they listened attentively to one another speaking.
Children were then given a leaf each and asked to write one thing that they were sorry for, then they were told to turn their leaves over and write a Lenten promise that they would try hard to keep for the next 40 days. We called this activity turning over a new leaf. After this, children hung their leaves on our tree that had been our focus point and that remains in our classroom as a reminder of the promises that we have made.
Well done Year 2!
