The Parish Magazine May 2023

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Easter worship and fun
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SONNING CofE primary school update
As a Church of England school, Easter is an important
time of year. As well as engaging in the fun and more childfocused
aspects of Easter — egg hunts! — we also focus
throughout the term on the events leading up to Holy
Week. In our collective worship each week since January,
we have learned about and discussed different parts of the
Easter story, culminating in our Easter service.
Due to adverse weather, we held our Easter service at the
school instead of walking to St Andrew's Church. However,
we were delighted to welcome Rev Kate to lead our service
during which each class sang or spoke and we came together to
celebrate the key events of Easter and its message for us from
Jesus' sacrifice.
This term, as well as Lent and Easter, also features
Ramadan and Eid, and we have enjoyed understanding more
about these important events in Islam and, with many Muslim
pupils in the school, it has been a wonderful way to show our
respect and curiosity — two of our school values — for other
religions and faiths.
As a key part of our Easter celebrations we finished the
term with our annual Easter Hat Parade, which produced a
range of very creative hats! The children, and staff, all walked
our ‘cat walk’ and showed off their hats to the rest of the
school by dancing, strutting, bouncing and sliding down the
cat walk to music! It certainly was a feel-good end to the term.
Performing arts needs your help!
At Sonning Church of England Primary School, we are seeking
angel investors for our exciting building project that will become
our Performing Arts Studio.
The vision and objective is to promote and deliver rich experiences
and development in acting, dance, music, song, art and general
cultural appreciation. Located within the school grounds it will be
used by the pupils during the day and at weekends, evenings and
school holidays, it will be available for the communities of Sonning,
Charvil, Sonning Eye, Wargrave, Woodley and Twyford.
To make our dream a reality, we need the support of our
community and would welcome discussions on how you can help
us — practically or financially — and how we can help you. Please
contact the school office via spsadmin@sonning.wokingham.sch.uk
for the attention of Phil Sherwood, headteacher.
Our thanks to Indy Biddulph for taking the photographs!