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Year 2 Class Mass – Wednesday 10^th June 2026

On Wednesday 10^th June 2026, year 2 held a class mass in our classroom. The theme was work as it linked with the Feast of St Joseph the Worker. We invited parents to come and share mass with us.

Year 5 RE Celebration - 18th May 2026 - Life in the Risen Jesus

We shared our learning from this term with our families. We planned the celebration ourselves by splitting into groups and taking different parts of our learning. We shared the stories of Ascension and Pentecost, looked at how the Fruits of the Holy Spirit guide us, investigated the changes that happened in the Church after the Second Vatican Council and how Jesus is always with us through the receiving of the seven sacraments.

Year 2 Term 5 RE Celebration 13.05.26.

EASTERTIDE

Year 2 acted out the events that led up to the crucifixion of Jesus, including Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. We then went on to act out the events of Eastertide: Easter Sunday, Ascension Day and Pentecost.

Lent and Easter 2026

We have been busy in St. Thomas' preparing for Easter. Children have been learning about the events of Holy Week in their RE lessons and through special Holy Week Celebrations of the Word. Year 3 and 4 took part in a Holy Week carousel where they created different items related to each day of Holy Week, years 5 and 6 went to St. Thomas' Church to walk the Stations of the Cross; reflecting on how Jesus would have felt on this final walk before He was crucified. Year 5 have also created some incredible Easter artwork and Easter cards.

Christmas Displays 2025

All the children have been busy creating some wonderful Christmas displays for our corridor. Each class has created a display based on the part of the whole school Nativity that they are going to be sharing with parents next week. They look incredible, as always! Well done all!

Year 5 RE Celebration - Creation

Today (Monday 13th October 2025), we shared our RE learning with parents in our classroom. We acted out the story of The Fall, shared what we think we should do as Stewards of the earth, read some of our letters to Pope Leo telling him about what we want to do to help our common home, shared the Canticle of St. Francis, we looked at how we and others can use our gifts from God to help the earth and others, just as Michelangelo and St. Hildegard of Bigen have done. Finally we shared what we have learnt about St. Carlo Acutis. We ended by singing 'I give my hands'. Thank you to all the parents who came along.

Thursday 9^th October 2025

Year 2 RE Celebration

During our class RE Celebration, we showed our parents some of our learning so far.

The theme for the term was ‘The Chosen People’.

We demonstrated bible stories about Abraham and Sarah, Moses and finally Daniel and the lions.

Thank you to all those parents, family members and friends who were able to attend.

CAFOD Club Jumble Sale

We held a jumble sale in school on Tuesday 17th June. We asked for donations from members of our school community, these included toys, games, stationary and books. We were blown away with how generous families were when they were donating items. We sorted all of the items into different categories and prices ready for our jumble sale!

We were amazed at how popular our jumble sale stall was! We had a huge queue of children eager to spend some money and buy some lovely items. It was very hard and hot work! 

We raised an INCREDIBLE......£233! WOW! Thank you so much for all of your support! We have chosen to donate the money to Catching Lives. This is a homeless charity based in Canterbury. 

Jubilee Candle of Hope

Today we held a special assembly where we welcomed Annemarie Whittle, the CEO of Kent Catholic Schools Partnership (KCSP) who brought the Jubilee Candle of Hope that has been passed around 41 schools in the diocese. 

CAFOD Club led our assembly where we talks about hope and being the lights in the world, just like Jesus is. We sang some beautiful songs to celebrate!

Year 5 RE Celebration

We welcomed parents into class this afternoon to share some of our RE learning. We talked about what life was like for the disciples after Jesus had risen from the dead. We shared some drama of our interrogations of the disciples about what they saw in the days after Easter Sunday. We spoke about Pentecost and how the Spirit was at work in the Church during the Second Vatican Council. We talked about the different types of prayer and shared the Our Father in some of our home languages. 

Crowning of Our Lady

Year 3 led the whole school in a wonderful assembly where we crowned Our Lady. As it is the month of May, we want to remember Our Lady. We sang songs, heard The Magnificat, shared a decade of the Rosary and said the Litany of Our lady. The oldest and youngest pupils in the school then crowned Our Lady. It was a lovely, prayerful assembly enjoyed by all!

Lent and Easter 2025

Easter Bonnets and Eggs

WOW! Look at all of these incredible creations that we have had for our annual Easter bonnet and egg competition. The children throughout the school have put so much time and effort into these creations. They are amazing. Well done children!

Way of the Cross

On Friday, our year 6 children shared Jesus' final journey before he was crucified on the cross in our Way of the Cross assembly with the rest of the school and parents. The whole school joined in with the singing beautifully. A lovely way to end our special Easter assembly week.

Big Lent Walk 

All of the children throughout the school have taken part in CAFOD's Big Lent Walk. We set the children the challenge the walk around our track as many times as they could. All of the children did so well, we will update you with how much we have raised after the Easter holiday.

Palm Sunday Assembly

On Tuesday, key stage 1 shared a wonderful Palm Sunday assembly with the rest of the school. They retold the story of Jesus being welcomed by the crowds. 

Elena's Wonderful Gifts!

Elena in year 5 has made crosses for everyone in her class. She did this in her own time at home! They are absolutely wonderful and we are going to keep them in our trays to use during our RE lessons. Thank you Elena!

Friday 7^th February 2025

RE Celebration

During our class RE Celebration, we showed our parents some of our learning so far. The focus was explaining about Jesus the Teacher, which was achieved through acting out a scene from scripture – The presentation of Jesus in the Temple.

Thank you to all parents who were able to attend and join in with our celebration.

Tuesday 4^th February 2025

Year 4 Class Liturgy

Today, members of our school CAFOD club delivered a special jubilee year liturgy for the children of year 4 with the theme PILGRIMS OF HOPE.

Christmas Displays

All classes created their annual Christmas displays to go up along the main corridor. Each class celebrates the part of the nativity they retell.

St Augustine House Assembly

We held our first house assembly of the year this week. St Augustine house came along to the hall to meet together and talk about their house. Our St Augustine house captain, Leya and Vice Captain, Teddy put the assembly together and led it. They shared who St Augustine was and why he is so important to Canterbury. They also talked about what they want to achieve from their house this year, there were lots of good ideas and some of us are going to go away and create posters to put around the school to encourage others to care for God's creation.

Year 2 RE Celebration: God's Chosen People

21st October 2024

Year 5 RE Celebration

Thursday 17th October 2024

We shared our RE learning from this term today with our parents. We have been learning all about Creation. We share the Creation story, acted out the story of The Fall, explained what co-creators and de-creators are, shared our letters that we wrote to Pope Francis and talked about some of God's great helpers.

Monday 15th October

RE Celebration

Year 4 welcomed parents as we held our RE celebration today to show off our learning to date. As this term was all about 'The Bible' - we focused on showing Bible stories. All children acted superbly and demonstrated their understanding of stories well. 

Thank you to those parents who were able to attend - we hope your enjoyed our celebration.

Year 4 Class Assembly

Thursday 10th October 2024

As part of our learning to date, Year 4 were able to demonstrate their understanding and knowledge of the bible story Abraham and Sarah and how they had to show trust and faith in God.

Well done to all of you for your effort and hard work.

Year 4 Class Liturgy

Tuesday 8^th October 2024

Year 4 held our own class liturgy based on the gospel reading from Mark 10:13-16 .

We began with a hymn, followed by an opening prayer and then reading scripture reading from Mark (10:2-16) We then reflected on the Gospel reading before ending our liturgy a closing prayer.

Finally, we completed an activity to remind us that all children are special and loved by God, whose Son Jesus welcomed the little children.

Year 5 Class Assembly

Thursday 3rd October 2024

Year 5 shared their learning from this term with the rest of the school and parents. We shared what we have learned about Creation and why it is important that we are now Stewards of the Earth. We also shared our English, geography and DT learning.

Our new and updates school houses!

We have had a huge change at the start of our new school year, we have new saints for our houses in school! We looked at our houses and wanted to make them more relevant to our school, using local saints or saints linked to our curriculum here at St Thomas'.

Introducing our new houses:

Saint Augustine

Saint Mildred

Saint Ethelbert

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Year 5 Trip to Canterbury Cathedral

We had a wonderful morning at Canterbury Cathedral on Monday 15th July 2024. We learned all about pilgrimage and St Thomas Becket. We took part in a costume trail around the Cathedral, acting out the story of St Thomas and learning about different parts of the Cathedral. We also made our own pilgrim badges, wrote our names with a quill, coloured our own stained glass window and were given the opportunity to explore the different activities in the education room. It was such a good morning!

Other Faiths Week 2024

We held our annual other faiths week in school this week. It is a wonderful opportunity for all the children throughout the school to learn about a major world religion in detail. Each class looked at a different world religion and produced some wonderful work. This was shared in our celebration assembly with the whole school and parents. Each class has also produced a display sowing some of their fabulous learning!

Year of Prayer

We are thinking about the Year of Prayer in school. This is a special year where we are called to pray in preparation for the Jubilee next year. Children throughout the school have written prayers that we have added to our prayer tree, which is on display in our school entrance. As part of their RE learning, year 5 looked at the Our Father and have written this sacred prayer in different languages. 

Year 5 End of RE Topic Celebration

Life in the Risen Jesus

On Thursday 16th May 2024, we welcomed parents into our classroom to tell them everything we have been learning in RE this term. We have been learning about what happened after Jesus rose from the dead and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. We shared some of our information about what Catholics believe in the Apostle's Creed, some of the main changes in the Church after the Second Vatican Council and the different types of prayer, knowing that Jesus is always with us. 

Year 5 Class Assembly

On Thursday 16th May 2024, we shared our learning from this term with the whole school and parents. We shared learning from English, where we have been reading Beowulf. We read some instructions we wrote to catch Grendel and kennings. We then shared our Anglo-Saxon learning from history. We also welcomed everyone to the new game show...RE Today, where the contestants were asked questions all about the Second Vatican Council. To finish we shared prayers we wrote in RE about Jesus always being with us, followed by singing 'He'll be there'.On Thursday 16th May 2024 we shared our learning from this term with the whole school and parents. We shared learning from English, where we have been reading Beowulf. We read some instructions we wrote to catch Grendel and kennings. We then shared our Anglo-Saxon learning from history. We also welcomed everyone to the new game show...RE Today, where the contestants were asked questions all about the Second Vatican Council. To finish we shared prayers we wrote in RE about Jesus always being with us, followed by singing 'He'll be there'.

Wednesday 15^th May 2024

Year 4 RE Celebration

During our class RE Celebration, we showed our parents some of our learning so far. The focus was The Early Christians - we were able to demonstrate the story of Pentecost.

Thank you to all those parents who were able to attend

Ascension Day Mass

This morning (Thursday 9th May 2024), the whole school walked down to St Thomas' Church to celebrate Ascension with members of our Parish. 

Southwark Schools Rosary

This morning (Tuesday 7th May 2024), we joined other schools around our Diocese to celebrate the Rosary with the Archbishop via Zoom. We all joined in and watched live from our class rooms. 

Crowning of Our Lady

In our celebration assembly on Friday 3rd May, the Mini-Vinnie's led the whole school and parents in a crowning of Our Lady. We shared prayers and placed roses at her feet. The youngest and oldest children in the school then crowned Our Lady. We sang some hymns dedicated to Mary.

Year 4 Class Assembly

02.05.24

Today, Year 4 welcomed parents and the school family to watch our class assembly. We were able to demonstrate our learning to-date. This included showcasing RE - where we were able to highlight Pentecost through drama and dialogue.

Year 5 Class Mass

This morning, Wednesday 1st May, Year 5 celebrated their class mass with the theme of Mary as it is 1st May. We heard about when Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth in the Gospel and asked Mary for support and guidance throughout this special month of May. Canon Anthony came to celebrate mass along with some of our parents. 

May is the month of Our Lady

As we start the special month of May, which is dedicated to our Lady, we think about how special she is and pray to her. We have a lovely statue of Our Lady in our foyer and on Friday we will be crowning her in our whole school assembly. After year 5 celebrated their class mass, they placed some flowers next to Our Lady.

Class Mass – Wednesday 24^th April 2024

On Wednesday 24^th April 2024, year 4 held a class mass in our classroom. The theme was work as it linked with the Feast of St Joseph the Worker. We invited parents to come and share mass with us.

CAFOD Club Assembly

Today (Thursday 18th April 2024), CAFOD Club held our second whole school assembly to let everyone know about our plans for the next two terms.

1) We would like to make the world a brighter place to live in! We would like to invite you to come to school dressed in bright colours to brighten up the world by fundraising for our global family by donating the money to CAFOD. We would ask you to bring a donation if you come to school in your bright colours. This will happen on Friday 3rd May 2024.

2) We showed a video of a bus that was being used in Pakistan as a mobile clinic to support those in need who were suffering as a result of the devastating floods of 2022. We are also inviting you all to take part in an art competition. For this, you will need to create a piece of artwork showing the community of St Thomas’. Just like the bus is being used in Pakistan. Your entry must either A4 or A3 sized and have your name and class written on the back. Your entry must be handed in to your class teacher by Tuesday 14^th May 2024, winners from each class will be announced in celebration assembly on Friday 17^th May 2024.

3) We are going to be hosting a whole school dancethon in term 6. More details to follow!

We are really looking forward to helping brighten up St Thomas', our local community and the whole world!

Holy Week in School 2024

Throughout this special time of Holy Week all the children will be taking part in different reflections and assemblies. In our hall we have images showing the Stations of the Cross.

Who was responsible for Jesus' death?

Year 6 have produced some wonderful work about who they believe to be responsible for the death of Jesus. They used scripture to find evidence for who they believed was at fault for Jesus' death, created pie charts in maths to visually show who they think held the most responsibility and created some lovely artwork.

Easter Assembly

At the end of the day on Thursday we celebrated all the fabulous Easter bonnets and decorated eggs that so many of the children had spent time creating. They all looked amazing!

Easter Bonnets and Decorated Eggs

We had some fantastic entries throughout the school for our Easter Bonnets and decorated eggs competition! So much effort went into them all! They were very difficult to judge but Mrs Milroy and Canon Anthony were up to the task! 

A massive well done to all of the children who took part!

The Way of the Cross

On Thursday, Year 6 shared Jesus' final hours with the whole school and parents. It was a time for thinking about how Jesus felt during the events of Good Friday.

Last Supper

On Wednesday, we gathered as a whole school again to reflect on the events of the Last Supper. We all sat in the hall and broke bread thinking about Jesus' last special meal with His disciples.

Palm Sunday 

 On Tuesday, key stage one and foundation stage shared a Palm Sunday assembly with the whole school. They sang some beautiful songs, acted out the story of Palm Sunday and other parables Jesus taught. 

Tuesday 26^th March 2024

Stations of the Cross

Today, both year 3 and 4 visited St. Thomas’ Church in Canterbury to accompany Jesus on his journey through The Stations of the Cross.  This is one of the most simple, yet powerful, ways to prayerfully walk alongside Jesus and to reflect on his great sacrifice for us.

There are fourteen Stations of the Cross. Each is an invitation to contemplate and experience a pivotal moment from Jesus’ sentencing to his death to his burial. They are a powerful way to step into some of the most significant moments in human history and encounter Jesus like never before. One of the most impactful times to pray the Stations of the Cross is during Holy Week, especially on Good Friday.

There are traditionally fourteen Stations of the Cross. Each station represents a different moment in Jesus’ Passion and Death, including:

1. Jesus is Condemned to Death
2. Jesus Carries the Cross
3. Jesus Falls for the First Time
4. Jesus Meets His Mother
5. Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
6. Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
7. Jesus Falls a Second Time
8. Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem
9. Jesus Falls a Third Time
10. Jesus is Stripped of His Garments
11. Jesus is Nailed to the Cross
12. Jesus Dies on the Cross
13. Jesus’ Body is Removed from the Cross
14. Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

Lent Penitential

On Monday morning each key stage took part in a special penitential service. Canon Anthony and Fr Giovanni came to celebrate these. Key stage two children were then invited to confession with our priests.

Year's 5 and 6 Stations of the Cross

On Tuesday 19th March 2024 year's 5 and 6 walked down to St Thomas' Church to have some reflection time walking through the Stations of the Cross. We all stopped at each station to listen and reflect on each significant part of Jesus' last footsteps. 

RE Displays Around Our School

We have been sharing lots of RE learning through our corridor displays this term. Take a look at what some classes have been doing.

Monday 18th March 2024

Age UK visit

Today, year 4 visited Age UK in Canterbury to sing a selection of Easter songs to visitors to the centre. 

After, the children read some pages of their books to the people visiting the centre.

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and we were grateful to lend our support to the local community

Class Liturgy 21st February 2024

Ash Wednesday

Year 4 celebrated Ash Wednesday by holding our own class liturgy. 

Lent explained

Lent is a time when we pray, do kind things for other people, give up things and give to others, as we prepare to celebrate the great feast of Easter.

For forty days, we accompany Jesus on his journey to Calvary and we see the mercy he shows towards others, despite his suffering. Just as God shows mercy towards us, like Jesus, we try to show mercy to others.

This Lent, we are also making our journey alongside families around the world living in poverty, especially those who do not have the basic things they need like enough nutritious food to eat.

We began with a hymn, followed by an opening prayer, scripture reading from Joel (2:12-13), the response, A CAFOD story, Lenten promises before finishing with more prayers and a final hymn.

Year 5 RE Celebration - Wednesday 7th February 2024  Inspirational People

Today we shared the learning from our work on inspirational people. The children wrote the RE celebration themselves and were proud to share this with lots of our parents! The children talked about what makes an inspirational person and how Jesus taught us the beatitudes to help us follow His example. They also acted out the life of Pier Giorgio who was known as ‘the boy of the eight beatitudes’.

Year 2 RE Celebration 5th February 2024   The Good News of Christ

Year 2 shared their RE learning with their families by acting out some of the miracles that Jesus performed.  From these miracles, the children learned that Jesus was truly human from the way he cared about others but also like God in the way he had holy powers to help those in need.

Wednesday 31^st January 2024

RE Celebration

During year 4's RE Celebration, we showed our parents some of our learning so far.

The focus was explaining about Jesus the Teacher, which was achieved through acting out a scene from scripture – The presentation of Jesus in the Temple.

Litter Angels Winners - Rosie Duffield visits Year 5!

We were very lucky this afternoon to have a visit from our MP, Rosie Duffield! She came in to announce the winner and runners up for the Litter Angels competition we entered earlier in the year! All of the posters were incredible! We knew it was important to share this important message with as many people as possible, we are all stewards of God''s creation and have a responsibility to care for our world.

Our runners up were:

Jolena

Chloe

Our class winner was...

ANDREW!

Well done!

Here are some pictures of our afternoon!

Look out for all of the posters, which will be put up around the school gates soon!

Well done year 5, I am so proud of you!

Year 5 Class Assembly - Thursday 18th January 2024

Today year 5 shared their learning with the whole school and parents from term 3 so far. They have already looked at so much and tried to fit in as much as they could! They shared their learning of long multiplication in maths, expanded noun phrases in English, inspirational people in RE, earth and space in science, drawing eyes in art and learning to play the glockenspiel in music. As well as sharing some of their singing. 

St Nicolas Carol Concert in Canterbury Cathedral

On Sunday 10th December 2023 a large number of year 5 joined other local schools to sing at the St Nicolas concert in Canterbury Cathedral. The children were all absolutely fantastic and sang beautifully. The represented St Thomas' wonderfully!

Advent in school

We have been busy in St Thomas' preparing for the Christmas season. We have been celebrating the start of Advent with key stage assemblies about Advent and each class has put together their own Christmas display sharing their part in our whole school Nativity. These have been displayed outside each classroom along the corridor and they look fabulous!