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Week 1 - New Friends

Lent Challenges – Be the change…New Friends

Week 1 - 22nd February 2023

This week our ‘New Friends’ challenges have been:

  1. Invite somebody new to join in with your game.

  2. Play with a child from a different year group.

  3. Find out something new about somebody.

Class Collective worship:

In our Class Collective Worship, we thought about Friendship. We heard about how Jesus chose the 12 disciples to be his friends and reflected on these questions:

  • I wonder how it felt to be chosen by Jesus?

  • I wonder what we can learn about friendship from this story?

  • I wonder if our friendships can also change lives?

  • We were left with the challenge…Who can you make friends with today?

Pupil Thoughts:

How it felt to be chosen by Jesus

  • The class said it would have made them feel very special to be chosen by Jesus to be his special friend.

  • excited because you are with someone who is respectful and loving to you.

  • It might have felt shocking as it is new, and wonderful to be Jesus’ friend

  • Exciting, astonished, special, honoured, grateful, speechless, happy, surprised

What we can learn about friendship from the story

  • After talking about who was our best friend, we all decided that Jesus was our friend too because he is always there to talk to if we need him.

  • if we make new friends then we won’t have to be alone.

  • We can learmn about friendship You can’t just chose friends that are rich, you can chose different people people that have no friends.

  • You can make friends with anyone

  • You don’t need to choose someone who’s perfect.

How our friendship can change people’s lives

  • We reminded ourselves of the passage from Joshua 1:9 “Be strong & courageous, do not be afraid, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you may go.”

  • They can change lives as they can make us feel happy

  • Make people happy when they are sad

  • Yes, they can, without friends you will not be the same person.

Friends Challenges

  • James asked Flynn (year 3) to play catch

  • Kevin learnt about Alfie’s favourite colour.

  • Jerry found out when Denis’ birthday is and played a game with Arosa in year 6.

  • Hannah and Abigail found about Megan’s favourite colour.

  • Girls plays with Lois in year 3

  • GG played with Kai from year 6 and Stephanie from year 3.

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