Why does Easter matter to Christians?

We thought about what we talked about last week and what Jesus said to God.  Christians ask God to forgive them because of Jesus' example, He was prepared to die to save and rescue people and heal their friendship with God.

We worked together to think about reasons why forgiveness is important to Christians and how Jesus inspires Christians to forgive others.

Father forgive them

Why does Easter matter to Christians?

"Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."

This is the scripture passage that we looked at today in Year 2.  We thought about who is saying it, who they are saying it to, why they are saying it and who they are talking about.

Forgive and Forget

Why does Easter matter to Christians?

The story "Let's Be Friends Again" by Hans Wilhelm is about a little girl who puts her brother's turtle in to the pond and it gets lost.  Her brother is very angry with her, he feels unwell, screams and shouts.  Eventually he forgives his sister.

The children thought about times when they have been angry with someone and how this made them feel.  Some said that they shouted in to a pillow, some said they felt sick and had a belly ache.

We listened to some calm, happy music and talked about how they felt when they had forgiven this person.

Have a look at some of the children's thoughts and feelings below.

Jesus' Examples

Why does Easter matter to Christians?

This week we have been thinking about how Christians and churches follow the examples that Jesus set.

We talked about the charities that we support in school, how we do this and why we do this.  We chose a charity to collect for over Lent this year and thought about the importance work that this charity does.

The children wrote about how our federation has helped charities over the past year. 

Holy Week

Why does Easter matter to Christians?

This week we thought back to what sin and salvation meant and how Jesus was sent to save us.  We then looked back at our Holy week timeline and made a tableaux for each part.

Jesus was setting an example to all of God's people during each part of Holy week, we talked about what Jesus was showing us.

We thought really carefully and hard about these things.  Mrs. Holmes was extremely impressed with what we thought and said.

Sin and Salvation

Why does Easter matter to Christians?

What do these words sin and salvation mean?  The children thought about sin first and that it is the things that people do wrong, some of the ideas that they came up with were hitting people, war, saying unkind things.  The children then looked at the word salvation alongside the word save and noticed that they have some of the same letters.

We went to the hall and put the word God one side, people the other side and sin in the middle.   One of us stood in the middle like Jesus on the cross, the word sin was underneath, we noticed that when Jesus died on the cross He was a bridge between people and God, He saved us from our sin.

The Easter Story

Why does Easter matter to Christians?

We had some fantastic acting and understanding this week in R.E.  We put the story of Easter on a time line in the correct order and talked about the importance of each part.

The children worked in groups to act out a section of the story.  They all did amazingly well and came out with some great ideas about what the characters, animals or objects may have been feeling or what they said.