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<\/a>\u00b7 Listening \u2013 Lent is for hearing God<\/p>\n\u00b7 Lengthening \u2013 Preparing for Christian living<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Letting go \u2013 A focus on Shrove Tuesday<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Keeping going \u2013 Lent is for all of life<\/p>\n
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The four stations were set up around the church and the children were in four groups. They spent time at each of the stations and took part in the activities which were all set around the theme of going on a journey.<\/p>\n
\u2018Lent is sometimes thought of as a journey, not with people travelling from one place to another but travelling through a length of time.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Each activity gave opportunity for making connections, learning and thinking, reflecting and responding.<\/p>\n \u2018Christians believe Jesus died and rose again so that they could be close to God. In response to this wonderful gift, Christians then aim to spend their lives following the example of the way Jesus lived.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The children appeared to enjoy the afternoon and some of the responses received were:<\/p>\n \u201cWe were worshipping God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe Lent afternoon was perfect in every way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI really liked eating the hot cross buns, because they had a cross on them and Jesus died on the cross!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI enjoyed writing my passport and drawing a picture.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This afternoon the children and staff went to St Giles\u2019 Church for an afternoon focusing on the upcoming period of Lent. The afternoon focused on four main areas: \u00b7 Listening \u2013 Lent is for hearing God \u00b7 Lengthening \u2013 Preparing for Christian living \u00b7 Letting go \u2013 A focus on Shrove Tuesday \u00b7 Keeping going … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11130,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartington.derbyshire.sch.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}