Sowing seeds of knowledge and faith,  with nurture and love

We thrive, we grow!

Collective Worship - Coming Together to Celebrate and Rejoice!

Each day, we finish with a whole‑school Collective Worship. This special time is separate from our Religious Education lessons and gives us the chance to come together, reflect and learn. Our worships include Bible stories, celebrations from the Christian calendar, important life messages, and learning about Christianity around the world. We also explore significant events and celebrations from other faiths, helping children develop respect and understanding of diverse beliefs and cultures. All our worships are fully inclusive and distinctively Christian in nature.

Our Worship Leaders work with the Headteacher and RE Leader to plan these sessions. They help choose Bible stories, themes and messages that matter to our children and our school community. They take great pride in shaping this valued part of our school day.

Here you can see some of  our collective worships and special celebrations. 

Bolton Class did a fabulous job at leading our school Harvest Festival today.  They told us about Harvest in the local area and also around the world.  They also retold the story of the Enormous Turnip and sang us all a wonderful Harvest song.

It was also fantastic to see All Saints Church so full.

We Grow We Thrive!

In worship this morning, as we spoke about God giving his one and only Son to us on Earth, we reminded ourselves that he was sent to bring peace, hope, joy, love and light to the world. God hoped that Jesus would help us learn and grow as people, to be better.

We reminded ourselves of how we do try to continue to grow and be the best we can be. In our worship was JT our tomato plant, which has grown and thrived with the love and care given by our Eco Warriors in school. 

Today was the day where those who wanted to, got to sample the tomatoes grown on our tomato plant.

The tomato plant was found as a small shoot growing in the car park and the Eco Warriors potted it up and it has grown and thrived, just like the children in school! The verdict on the fruit was tasty and scrumptious!

 Diwali Collective Worship 

Our amazing Worship Leaders led a collective worship about the Hindu festival of Diwali.

They included drama with audience participation to retell the story of Rama and Sita. They also led a discussion about how Diwali is celebrated and how this is similar to how some Christians celebrate Christmas. A meal with family and friends, lights, decorations and giving presents were some of the similarities mentioned! 

The Power Of Prayer

We had a really lovely collective worship today, talking about the power of prayer. Two girls, alongside others, who have helped make the prayer wall, talked to the rest of the school about how they can use it to write prayers, when ever they wish to and for so many different reasons.

We spoke about a prayer being like a letter to God, sharing thoughts, feelings and how in our faith and many others, it is a way we ask for help, seek comfort or say thank you for our blessings.

As a school, we wrote our first prayer and decided upon a prayer of thanks, to say thank you for the harvest. Take a look!

Celebrating Harvest With Our School Community

On Wednesday 25th September, we met with our school community, and Maisy Moo's Day Nursery and Wistow Smartstart to celebrate harvest, with our Bolton class leading us in worship.

All Saints church was full and it was so wonderful to have as many people come to share this special service.

Bolton spoke about why we come together to celebrate with each other at this time of year, reflecting on how hard our local community farmers work, alongside many other people across the world, gathering their harvests and then distributing to others, for lots of different uses.

Bolton class spoke about how other countries, religions gather harvests and the type of things they collect to eat, ready for Autumn and Winter.

As part of the service, children shared the story Handa's Surprise, with some wonderful animal costumes and acting, it was a really lovely interpretation of the story. One pupil had even taken it upon himself and made the fruit props at home, which was appreciated by all his fellow classmates! 

The singing of the songs lifted the roof and we have had some lovely feedback about the service.

Reverend Canon John Wheetman, closed the service blessing the food and children. We also welcomed Faith, from Selby Foodbank, who spoke about how our donations would help others in the local area, it was wonderful to have her with us.

Thank you to all of you who donated, your kindness, generosity and ongoing support it very much appreciated.

The Parable of The Sower

In school today, we have had a very special day, based around our school bible story, 'The Parable of the Sower'. All classes came together to start the day in a collective worship to explore why we chose this story and how Wistow School is linked to the parable.

Before we shared the story, the children looked at some items that Mrs Cox had put on the worship table. There was:

• A bible
• An aerial photo of our community
• Story book
• A very small acorn
• A tomato plant
• A candle

All children listened to the parable and then answered questions about the story. Then they were posed with the question, how is Wistow School linked to this parable?

One child answered "Our community is a farming one, with lots of land and the story is about a man, who is a farmer and is sowing seeds." 

Another child said, "We are the seeds, and Wistow is the good soil as we grow in school!"

Both answers were completely right! 

As a farming community we are surround by hard working farmers, using the good soil to make things grow. We talked about how we see school as the good soil and when children come here, they learn, grow and thrive with their teachers and friends. It was lovely how the children spoke about how they do thrive in school and how well they learn.

Also on the table, we had a tomato plant, that the children last term named Jason Tomato (JT for short). JT was found in the car park, growing near a bench where the children often eat their pack ups. From a tomato seed from someone's pack up, this plant grew .... and grew .... and grew! So Mrs Cox took it out and put it in a special planter to show how all things can grow, when they start in good soil and are nurtured. JT now has 5 tomatoes growing on him and the children in classes are taking turns in feeding him.

We finished the assembly with a great song, called "I want to be mud!", which is all about the Parable of the Sower. 

Then  in classes, the children were given a challenge, to turn one of their windows in class into a Parable of the Sower story window. When you are in and around school, please take a look!

We recycle our Christmas trees each year to make something special for our outdoor areas. 

We used three of our trees to make a special Easter display in our outside area.

The children took turns in knitting part of the scarf with two volunteers and wove the crown of thorns using twisted willow.