Leehurst Swan School

Pupils in the Prep took part in an Easter Activities Day to explore the Christian message of Easter.  Each year group was given part of the Easter story to explore and  different creative, artistic or dramatic ways were used to interpret the events of Holy Week and Easter.  Pupils shared their work in a sharing assembly in the afternoon.

Year 1 had fun making and cooking Hot Cross Buns.  Year 2 pupils worked hard to create a collage of the cockerel which crowed when St Peter denied  knowing Jesus.  Year 3 collected flowers, moss, twigs and stones from the school grounds with to make Easter Gardens and decorated  Easter branches. Mrs Evans and Mr Thomas interpreted the entry of Jesus on a donkey into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Pupils in Year 4 made palm leaves, dressed up to re- enact the story, read from the Bible and also sang a song called “Ride On ” taught to them by Mr Thomas. The Bridge Project presented  the story of C.S.Lewis’s Narnia and explained the allegory between the story and the Christian message using extracts from both “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and also  “The Miracle Maker” video to Year 5.  Pupils also learned a worship song using actions from the British Sign Language. Mrs Herlihy and Miss Bayliss praised the work of the Bridge and the pupils really enjoyed the presentation. Miss Bayliss and pupils presented the song they had learned at the sharing assembly later in the afternoon and asked everyone to try it to sing and act it out too.  Year 6 pupils created copies of the famous Faberge eggs as well as silhouette pictures of the Crucifixion. They also created some wonderful pictures, paintings and props to retell the story of “The Three Trees”. The story is a legend about trees used to make the wood for different  events in the life of Jesus; for the manger of Baby Jesus in Bethlehem, a  second tree’s wood was used by Jesus as a fishing boat and  the third was used to make the cross of Jesus.

All pupils enjoyed presenting their work through drama, singing, cookery, painting, making items, creating Easter gardens, collages, reading etc.