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THE COLLECTIVE WORSHIP RESOURCE - for Autumn Term 2010 Light in Christian belief and practice

AGE: Primary

COLLECTIVE WORSHIP                                    LIGHT                                    SPRING 2010

AGE RANGE                  Key Stages 1 & 2

TITLE                                     Light in Christian belief and practice

AIM

·       To enable pupils to explore their experiences of light and darkness in everyday life

·       To help pupils to begin to understand the symbolism of light within the Christian tradition

 

RESOURCES

You will need:

Session 1                   Birthdays

·       A large circular cloth to spread on the floor

·       A birthday cake with several candles

·       Party poppers, several children’s birthday cards, several small boxes wrapped as gifts

·       Matches

·       A CD with music representative of the theme of light/darkness e.g. Zanfir (Pan Pipes: Light of Experience)

Session 2                  Candlemas

·       A large circular cloth spread on the floor

·       A collection of candles representative of Christian ceremonies and celebrations, displayed attractively on the circular cloth e.g. baptism candle, miniature Paschal candle, votive candles

·       A room that can be darkened

·       A copy of the poem ‘Candles’

·       A CD with music representative of the theme of light/darkness e.g. Zanfir (Pan Pipes: Light of Experience)

·       Reading of Jesus being presented in the temple: Luke 2:22-38

 

Session 3                  Easter

 

·       A large circular cloth to spread on the floor

·       A miniature paschal candle

·       Easter eggs, Easter cards, a selection of different kinds of crosses including palm crosses

·       Children’s drawings of large paschal candles, depicting the traditional symbols (see below)

Session 4         Baptism

·       A large circular cloth to spread on the floor

·       Greetings cards for baptism

·       A baptismal candle

·       Readings for baptism John 3: 5-6; Matt 28:19; Gal 3:26-27

·       A christening robe

·       A flipchart with a picture of a font in the centre surrounded by the following questions: What is baptism? Why is baptism a time to celebrate? What changes on this day? Why is the symbol of light important?

·       3  pieces of A4 card with the following words:

Special clothes

A special place

A special name

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