Today we had a special visit from Pauline, who works at our local church. She came in to talk to us about Easter and tell us a version of the Easter story. We listened carefully to the story and had lots of questions that made Pauline. She told us the story using eggs holding special parts of the story, they helped her to tell the story and we discussed why each part of the story was important.

Here are some of the facts we can remember about the Easter story.

On the Sunday before Easter, to start holy week, the church give out palm crosses. We have these to remember that Jesus died on the cross at Easter and that palm leaves were waved at Jesus as he walked to Jerusalem. Pauline gave us all a palm cross to take home.

In R.E we have been learning the story of Jonah and the Whale. We discussed why Jonah was swallowed by the whale and how we have consequences for our actions. We made links between our own choices and things that happen as a result, maybe as punishment for our actions.

We retold the story in groups role played the story. We then completed some lovely art work to display in our classroom.