The Year 2 enquiry question for this half term is – ‘What makes some places special to religious believers?’
To help us answer that question we visited Aylsham church today where we were greeted by Reverend Julie. She spoke to us about the church and its importance to Christians. In our groups we then carried out different activities:
Activity 1 – Look around the church looking for special features, artefacts and symbols.
Activity 2 – Making stained glass windows
Activity 3 – Rubbings around the church
Some of the children were then lucky enough to dress up in the different colours of the chasubles. Reverend Julie explained the meaning of the different colours and when they are worn during the year.
White is used for Christmas, Epiphany, Sundays of Easter, Holy Trinity, and Christ the King.
For Advent and Lent, purple is used.
Pentecost is red
For ‘normal’ time green is used.
