We were delighted to be approached by the Head at Brinscall C of E Primary School requesting for their Worship/Ethos group to meet up with the Coppull Parish Worship/Kingdom Club this week. It was a brilliant opportunity for the children from both schools to get to know each other and find out the role they have in school life. As we have so many children in our group, we were only able to include 8 children, but they were very excited to represent their school mates and share the wide range of things they do within school. Our Worship Group leads songs and prayers in worship, they created and ran prayer stations in our Spirituality Week, they also write a prayer for the weekly newsletter, as well as planning and taking part in performances of Bible stories and read scripture and lead prayers in the Harvest, Easter and Christmas Services at Coppull Parish Church. We were able to share some prayers with the Brinscall children and demonstrate a couple of their favourite action songs: Our Lighthouse and Light of the World. Meanwhile, our Kingdom Club take part in lots of activities which make Coppull Parish and our community more like the Kingdom of God. For example, they prepare and deliver assemblies on road safety, anti-bullying and the Wow Travel Tracker (which reduces pollution, congestion and promotes a healthy lifestyle). They are also courageous advocates for tackling inequality in our world, taking part in lots of Fairtrade activities, attend the annual Fairtrade Conference and have achieved Fairtrade status for the school. They also choose a different charity each year to support. This year, they have chosen the Woodlands Animal Sanctuary in Ormskirk, as most people voted to support an animal charity this year.  We ended our session with a lovely Bible craft activity and spent time getting to know each other. We are hoping to visit Brinscall later in the year to see the work that their worship group are doing. 

Our children had a brilliant afternoon being thoroughly entertained by Chaplins theatre company today. Our younger children were completely enthralled and involved in the story line and everyone loved booing the villain and shouting 'he's behind you!' We had jokes galore, song and dance routines and a whole lot of fun. Have a look at the photographs and see what a great time we all had. Thank you to the PTFA who provided a sweet treat for home time too, what  a great finish to a wonderful afternoon!

Mrs Goymer and the Gardening Club have been really busy this week making a hedgehog hut and garlands of berries and popcorn to feed the wild birds over the colder months. I even saw a cheeky squirrel heading towards our allotment the other day, so the local wildlife will definitely appreciate all the hard work. I know the children really look forward to their Gardening Club sessions, as they learn so much and develop all their gardening skills and talents. Thank you children and thank you Mrs Goymer for your dedication!

Yesterday, the whole school took part in the Blackburn Diocese's Year of Prayer launch, which was delivered (via Zoom) by Phillip, the Bishop of Blackburn.

The Diocese are launching this lovely event to celebrate their centenary year and Coppull Parish are more than happy to be involved in this as we explore how we can both underpin our own lives with prayer and develop and embed a culture of prayer in the lives of the children and young people we have the privilege of connecting and sharing our faith with.

Twenty thousand children across the Diocese are taking part in a weekly prayer and to demonstrate this experience, Bishop Phillip led all the schools taking part in today's session in 'quiet' prayer for support with something they personally need and 'noisy' prayer for countries that need peace. You can probably guess which the children enjoyed the most - it wasn't very peaceful, but they will definitely have delivered their message!