Blog Author: Mr Mackley

This week's worship is looking at St Mark whose feast day is this week, on the 25th April.

This half term, our behaviour focus is on following instructions.

This short worship from Mr Mackley, helps us to understand a little about the importance of following instructions and shares with us what each phase in school will be focusing on this half term.

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This is the final instalment of our Whistlestop Tales this term - we haven't managed to hear all of the stories but maybe you would like to find out for yourself the others which you haven't heard...

Our story this week is all about a very important Senator from the country of Sudan who had a…

This week's worship returns us to Whistlestop Tales, learning more about some of the people in the Bible and becoming more aware of where they came from too.

Lydia was a woman who seemingly had it all, but there was something missing in her life and then two men appeared at the women's prayer…

This week in my worship I am considering the importance of Lent and Ramadan for the people who observe those times. Christians are almost half way through Lent as Muslims have just begun Ramadan.  For both faiths, this is a holy time of self sacrifce and preparation as they look ahead to important…

It is World Book Day this Thursday and to help us look towards that, my worship today is starting us thinking about how stories take us to amazing places in our imagincation and that we can all be story writers.

Welcome to the latest in my series of tales from this wonderfiul book which retells well known Bible stories and places the characters in the actual countries they were from. I hope you have enjoyed them, it has been fascinating for me to learn something new about each of the characters, not least…

This week's worship tale is set in the time of Jesus and is about a rather grumpy centurion who was very used to giving orders and bosssing people around. He had to learn a very important lesson in humility...

This week's worship is another story from Whistlestop Tales.

It is one of my favourites that tells the tale of Ruth who was a Moabite from the land we now know as Jordan who gave up everything to help a Jewish widow, a race and faith completely different to her own.

She was a woman prepared…

This is the first in a series of worships sharing the lives of different, well known, chracters from the Bible. In each story, each character is placed in the actual country which they lived in at the time.

In our first one we are listening to one of the stories of Abram, an important character…

This week, we begin the Countdown to Christmas, for Christians this is a period of time called 'Advent'  It is a time of preparation, of getting ready to celebrate what Christians believe is the greatest gift of all.

Most importantly, it is a time to focus on being at peace with ourselves and…

In this, our last worship looking at the value of 'respect' we learning about the llife of Mother Teresa.  She followed God's call to serve and spent her life with the poor and the needy and the sick, working tirelessly to follow God's command to help those who need help.

It is important to…