St Peters

It was our last journey of the year over to St Peters today.  We decided to allow the year 6 class that would be leaving to pick the songs and they said Shine and asked what the Chicken Dance was.  So as a special treat we said we would sing it at the end.  So following our first song I started to tell our Move On story.  As at other schools the children listened as I very quickly went through a little bit of history from Abraham to Joseph and then into Moses.  I used pictures that I had added words to and use the words Move On a number of times during the story.  As we read in the Bible the Israelites out in the desert did get stopped from time to time and felt that they couldn't Move On particularly by the banks of the Red Sea, and when the found they had no water to drink our food to eat.  Yet each time God provided the answer, which enabled them to Move On into the land God had promised to Abraham.  Sarah then talked to the children about their moving on - some to a new school like the year 6 and others moving on up the school to new classrooms and even new teachers.  She encouraged them to ask and seek help whenever they felt they needed to and told them that when they came across a new situation that they really were unsure about they could ask God for help.  At the end the children found a space on the floor as we sang the Chicken Dance song followed by a prayer from me and the Lord's Prayer from Sarah.