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iShare Learning Themes

Each half term we will all be sharing our learning on a theme throughout the school in our worship times and in our classes and through some iShare buddy activities with our Christ Church Chums.  Each theme will be underpinned with a Bible verse worth knowing!

Autumn 1 - Respect for All

Supporting Bible Verse

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. 
Matthew 7v12

Objectives

  • We are all equal in God’s sight and need to value each other and all our differences.
  • Everybody is different and we should value and celebrate all our cultural, racial and neuro-diversity
  • We all have a responsibility to model respect to each other, including in our school community.

Autumn 2 - Everybody's Got Gifts

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Supporting Bible Verse

We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.   Ephesians 2v10

Objectives

  • We are all special and unique, each with gifts, talents and qualities that God has given to us.
  • We have a responsibility to share our talents and gifts with others.
  • It can be exciting discovering new talents. 
  • Developing talents can take some hard work on our part.

Spring 1 - Count Your Blessings

Supporting Bible Verse

Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.  Praise the Lord, my soul,  and forget not all his benefits.  Psalm 103 v1-2 (NIV)

Objectives

  • We should always stop to be thankful in our lives for all the blessings we have, large and small
  • God has given us so many things we take for granted that make life good for us and each other
  • When we are feeling 'down', praising and thanking God can encourage us and cheer us up

Spring 2 - Communion

Supporting Bible Verse

Christ suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.  1 Peter 3v18 (NLT)

Objectives

  • Communion literally means sharing deeply and intimately with others
  • The act of communion (or Eucharist) is celebrated in churches in different ways to remember Jesus' death on the cross
  • In taking communion, bread symbolises Jesus' body and wine symbolises his blood and participants remember that Jesus was the 'sacrifice' given for their sins, that they might be forgiven and given new life, hope and peace in God

Summer 1 - Windows, Mirrors, Doors

Supporting Bible Verse

For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has planted eternity in the human heart.   Ecclesiastes 3 vv 1,11

Objectives

  • To understand what is meant by spirituality
  • To understand people experience spirituality differently through different windows (our encounters), different mirrors (our reflections) and different doors (our transformations and actions)
  • To know that God made us as spiritual beings and it is good to consider our spiritual health alongside our physical and mental health
  • To understand that Christians believe God’s Holy Spirit can lead, inspire and equip them to develop spiritually

Summer 2 - The Lord is my Shepherd

Supporting Bible Verse

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul.  Psalm 23 vv1-2 (NIV)

Objectives

  • God leads us and guides us every step of the way in our lives
  • God knows our needs and we can trust him to provide all the basics of what we need to live our lives
  • It is important to rest in life and take time to recharge and be still and Jesus was a good role model in this

 

Christ Church Chums

We have partnered year groups so that the juniors can form close links with the infants and the infants will see many familiar faces as they transfer to the juniors. Children are the younger chum from Year 1 to Year 3, they are then the older chum from Year 4 to Year 6.

Children should retain the same chum as they journey through school. The paired classes will meet together each half term to enjoy an iShare Buddies activity, based on our iShare Learning worship themes. This is an excellent opportunity for the older children to act as mentors and teachers to the younger ones. Children will also be invited to see their chums’ performances and other special events.