Pray School is an engaging Religious Education program, appealing to the spirituality of the child through storytelling, music, singing, listening and responding to Scripture. Come along to pray school and make connections to life and faith through the gifts of wonder and awe.

GOD'S GREAT FAMILY

Pray School - Season 3: God's People

Episode 4: Holy Family

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LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Take a family photo
  • Spend some time looking through a family photo album
  • Pray to the Holy Family
  • Spend some time connecting with Creation
  • Make your own family with craft materials

Creation Corner - Pray School

World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation.

Join Beth and the toys as they lead us in prayer to reflect upon and give thanks for the gift of creation. As we listen to the cry of the earth we are invited to be stewards of the earth as we care for all things.

Pray School - Special Episode

Meaningfully Connecting: A Lesson for RUOK? Day

This episode is designed as a remote learning resource for young learners, drawing on RUOK? materials. In this special episode, we explore messages of wellbeing, and having awareness for the wellbeing of ourselves and for others. R U OK? Day is a reminder that every day is a day to empower people to meaningfully connect, to start a conversation and to lend support. This R U OK? Day students and staff are invited to participate in a flash dance video as a way of creating a meaningful connection within our CEDoW community.

LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Learn more about RUOK? Visit https://ruok.org.au
  • Ask someone you care about, "Are you ok?"
  • Take some time to rest and slow down and enjoy creation
  • Do some meditative breathing
  • Learn our CEDoW RUOK Day flash dance at https://youtu.be/Kas0kJlwrYo

GOD'S GREAT FAMILY

Pray School - Season 3: God's People - Family In Faith

Episode 3: Discipleship - A Path of Love

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LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Follow Jesus, and love others by doing some kind and generous deeds for them
  • Thank those people in your life who show love and goodness to the world
  • Collect some sticks, pebbles, seed pods or flowers and create a bush craft mosaic
  • Start some environmentally compassionate practices such as using a keep cup and metal straws, or reducing your plastic waste
  • Go for a walk and clean up along the way

Pray School - Season 3: God's People - Family In Faith

Episode 2: Trust & Promise

Abram & Sarai - Part 2

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LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Draw your favourite part of the story Abram & Sarai.
  • Retell the story of God's great family using toys, blocks for places, and pebbles for altars.
  • Make a trust bracelet as a reminder to trust in God and have faith.
  • Sing along to 'Hearts of Courage'.
  • Explore nature and look for the promise of life unfolding.

Pray School - Season 3: God's People - Family In Faith

Episode 1: We Belong To God's Family

Abram & Sarai - Part 1

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GOD'S GREAT FAMILY - ABRAM & SARAI

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Draw your favourite part of the story Abram & Sarai.
  • Retell the story of God's great family using toys, blocks for places, and pebbles for altars.
  • Make a telescope and go stargazing. Look for the pot, the southern cross and shooting stars. What other shapes can you find?
  • Draw pictures of stars. Use scrap cardboard. If you like make them into a mobile to decorate your space.

The Big Advent Show

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The Big Advent Show

A Time of Waiting and Preparing

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Set-up a sacred space for Advent using purple cloths.

  • Make purple and pink advent candle lanterns. Light them up with a battery operated tea light.

  • Explore the meaning of the Advent wreath and it's candles by singing along to Christmas La La with Jen and the students from Bulli.

  • Talk with your class and family about ways in which we get ready for Christmas and begin doing some of these things i.e putting up the Christmas tree and decorations, make an Advent calendar, write Christmas cards, help St Vincent de Paul

  • Sing along to 'O Emmanuel' with Michael Mangan and explore what it means to wait for the birth of Jesus and have God with us.

  • Retell the story of Mary and the Annunciation. Explore how Mary felt to hear this news and ways in which we might say Yes to God in our own lives.

  • Respond to the story of Mary's Annunciation - you could draw a picture, retell the story with toys, and sing along to John Burland's song 'God Reigns'.

  • Take a walk through creation and look for signs of the season changing, telling us Christmas is approaching. If you come across a jacaranda tree take a class photo and send it to Tim, Beth and the Toys: Hartt02@dow.catholic.edu.au

  • Explore a children's Bible to find people who waited for Jesus the Messiah.

  • Create Jesse Tree ornaments with recycled materials showing symbols of people who waited for the promised one.

  • Pray for Jesus to be born into our hearts this Advent as we use sing Maranatha with Andrew Chinn.

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SPECIAL EPISODE - THIS HOLY CROSS

(THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS - 14 September)

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Watch Pray School

  • Embark on a treasure hunt looking for various crucifixes and crosses around the school. Look closely at the designs, colours and materials. Photograph or sketch these.

  • Create your own cross. You could use sticks and a pipe cleaner. Or you could draw or paint or even use play-do.

  • Go on a nature walk and look for new life rising up in the warm weather.

  • Sing and move to the songs about the cross.

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SEASON 2 EPISODE 4 - SENT FORTH TO LOVE AND SERVE

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Watch Pray School

  • Discuss ways in which we can glorify God through our love and service to others

  • Explore spaces and meet some faces from Church that connect to the Concluding Rite

  • Invite your parish priest to talk about their role. Ask them to show different coloured vestments

  • Explore the symbol of the Processional Cross and practise the sign of the cross through the song ‘Follow the Cross’

  • Make a holy water font out of recycled materials

  • Make a processional cross pencil topper with a pipe cleaner

  • Adopt some new practices that show your care for the environment

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SEASON 2 EPISODE 3 - A SACRED MEAL

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Watch Pray School

  • Explore special meals and discuss how certain meals and food rituals help us to join together and remember significant moments

  • Explore spaces and meet some faces from Church that connect to the liturgy of the Eucharist

  • Explore the offertory symbols of bread and wine through the song Upon the Altar

  • Make bread following Beth's recipe

  • Practise the gestures bowing and genuflecting to show respect for the altar and the presence of Christ in the tabernacle

  • Re-enact the liturgy of the Eucharist/Last Supper using toy plates and cups

  • Make a monstrance. Look at images online and explore what it is (an ornate vessel to display the Blessed Sacrament during adoration)

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SEASON 2 EPISODE 2 - LISTEN TO THE WORD

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Watch Pray School

  • Explore favourite Bible Stories & draw pictures/create comics of these

  • Explore spaces and meet some faces from Church that connect to the liturgy of the Word

  • Spend some time listening to sounds of the earth (place your hands behind your ears and notice the change in volume - what can you hear now?)

  • Practise the gesture for greeting the gospel - Glory To You O Lord

  • Choose a special word from the bible i.e love, joy, hope, faith and create a hidden word art work

  • Sing along to a Psalm

  • Follow the actions to the song 'Thy Word'

  • Sing the Maranatha chant as a class (Try it as a round/canon)

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SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 - GATHERED TOGETHER

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Make pipe cleaner people to represent the people whoi make up the Parish Community

  • Learn the moves to John Burland's "We Are the Church"

  • Play percussion instruments to the song Wade in the Water

  • Visit your local Church and explore the spaces and meet some faces

  • Plan a gathering with your class

  • Think of ways you can include all of creation in the puzzle of life

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SEASON FINALE

Episode 6 - PENTECOST

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Change the prayer space for the occasion of Pentecost

  • Spend some time sitting and noticing the air/wind moving in the environment and on your skin. Relate this to the Holy Spirit which can be seen by the energy and life it gives to people

  • Make a pinwheel and discuss the power of wind and relate this to the Holy Spirit (Teacher tip - use post it noted and pin to pencils with a rubber on the end)

  • Mix red and yellow paints or pastels to create different hot shades to paint tongues of fire

  • Use chalk to mix colours and draw tongues of fire on the path - Draw an outline of your body with a friends help and draw the Spirit’s flame above your head. Fill the body up with gifts of the Spirit.

  • Retell the story of Pentecost using toys or spoon puppets

  • Complete an Assessment task for the Easter Unit

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Episode 5 - ASCENSION

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Look at traditional and contemporary artworks of the Ascension. Examine the expressions and body language of people depicted and discuss what these expressions are communicating to the viewer

  • Create an illustration of the Ascension story

  • Draw and write about a place or a time when you feel Jesus is with you

  • Look through magazines and create a class mural to show all the things that remind us God is with us

  • Follow the dance to the song ‘How Great Is Our God’

  • Sing the Antiphon ‘Christ has died, Christ is Risen’

  • Revise previous episodes to consolidate learning about Easter

  • Complete an Assessment task for the Easter Unit

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Episode 4 - EASTER MYSTERY

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Go exploring outside to discover the wonders of God that are hidden in the ordinary

  • Create an Easter egg decoration

  • Draw a picture of a place where you feel close to God’s presence

  • Make spoon disciples with eyes closed and eyes open and retell the story of the Road to Emmaus

  • Take a walk with a family member or a friend and spend some time walking and talking with each other

  • Share a special meal with family and friends

  • Learn a dance or a song from this week’s episode

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Episode 3 - Joy of the Good News

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Look through the local newspaper for a Good News story. Think about how ‘Good News’ makes you feel.

  • Teach the Auslan sign for Alleluia & the song 'Halle Halle' to your family and friends

  • Find out what brings joy to the people in your family

  • Draw an illustration about Jesus appearing to the disciples

  • Make a boat out of recycled materials and retell the story of the disciples going fishing

  • Make up a song about things that make you feel joy

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Episode 2 - Light of the World

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Go outside on a sunny day and take notice of the sunlight.

  • Explore night time lights and go star-gazing

  • Draw a picture of a type of light and think about why Jesus is like this light

  • Draw a picture of an Easter candle or make an Easter candle lantern and say a prayer by it's light

  • Write a poem or song about Jesus the light of the world using similes and metaphors

  • Do you have a baptism candle? Find your candle and name some of the ways you can let your light shine and spread the Good News. (Use a different candle if you don’t have a baptism candle).

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Episode 1 - Rise To New Life

Perhaps this week you would like to:

  • Make a Sacred space for Easter

  • Make flowers out of egg cartons or other recycled materials

  • Draw an illustration about the Resurrection story and the women at the tomb

  • Plant some seeds, and help them to grow by watering them and giving them sunlight

  • Make your own gratitude journal and write what you are thankful for this week

Peace be with you