Thirteen schools from across Denbighshire, Flintshire and Conwy have enjoyed puppet shows and story-telling during a day out at St Asaph Cathedral to celebrate Religious Education.
As part of a month long campaign to promote good teaching of RE in schools, the pupils were able to take part in activities in different areas of the Cathedral showing everyone creative ways of telling Bible stories.
Children from Ysgol y Llan in Whitford performed puppet shows focussing on Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan and related that to their relationships with family and friends.
Headteacher Kath Royles said:
“This has been a brilliant day.
“It’s been great for staff too because it has given us some new ideas to go away with.”
Pupils built Lego models to tell parables of Jesus while the story-telling focussed on Creation and the life of King David.
The Bishop of St Asaph, the Right Reverend Dr Gregory K Cameron officially opened Thursday’s event which will culminate in a huge celebration of RE in the early evening.
Phil Lord is RE Advisor for Denbighshire, Flintshire and Conwy.
He helped organise the day of celebration and said:
“I think it’s gone really well.
“The children got lots out of it and I hope it inspired them to look at the Bible stories in a different way.”
