At St Peter's we don’t just rely on children coming to church, we take church out to the children.

 

​Before the pandemic, we were involved in taking assemblies in all the primary schools, some schools occasionally and others every week. We are working on building up these relationships again, and extending our relationships with the pre-schools as well.

 

Some of our most popular assemblies are taken by our ‘Open the Book’ team. This is a highly creative group of people who encourage the children in assemblies to act out the Bible stories with lots of enthusiasm. In fact, the most difficult part of any assembly is choosing which children to be actors as there are always so many hands to choose from. The team are always delighted by the number of children who come up to them in the street to say how much they enjoy their Open the Book assemblies. 

 

At St Peter's we also welcome the schools for RE visits, concerts, Easter, harvest, Christmas and leavers' celebrations, and it is lovely for us to see how gifted the young people in the town are.

 

If you would like any more information about our work with schools and pre-schools please get in touch with Roo Joyner our Schools and Families Pastor: roo@stpetersyateley.org.uk

 

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