Celebrating Easter in Church Schools

As Easter fell so early this year, school holiday were delayed for many children until well after Easter – which meant children remained at school up until Good Friday.

Churches and schools took full advantage of the opportunity to focus more closely on the Easter story with youngsters.

Children of Deddington CE School prepared a special Easter Gift to their parish this year, with a series of displays in their local church based on the Easter Story.

Head teacher, Judith Tinsley, said: ‘It has been a very enjoyable project. The displays in the church, and another in the school, of the Easter Garden, will hopefully give visitors a sense of the true meaning of the Easter experience. The displays were erected after a week of reflection and each class has concentrated on a particular element of Jesus’ journey.’

And at Appleton School, near Abingdon, the Bishop of Oxford visited children to launch his Easter Ingredients campaign, making hot cross buns with the 140 pupils.

The campaign saw 27,000 hot cross buns and leaflets outlining the significance of the bun given away in parishes and in church schools. The Bishop of Oxford was in Oxford city centre on Good Friday, giving away more buns to passers-by, and similar give-aways took place in the city centres of Reading and Milton Keynes at the same time.