🕯️ Courage to Remember: Marking Holocaust Memorial Day at St Peter’s
Jan27th
🕊️ Shining a Light in the Darkness: Our Courage Worship and Holocaust Memorial Day
This half term, our worship theme at St Peter’s is Courage. In school we have been exploring what courage looks like in everyday life for our children – and how, even when things feel difficult or unfair, we can still choose to Love, Learn and Shine.
As part of this, our school community has marked Holocaust Memorial Day today, which is held each year on 27 January. This is a national day when people across the UK pause to remember a very sad and serious time in history, during the Second World War, when Jewish people and other groups were treated terribly unfairly because of who they were. We remember so that we can learn from the past and choose a kinder, fairer future.
Talking about courage with our children
During worship, the children thought about different ways we can show courage in our own lives. Together we explored ideas such as:
Carrying on when things are difficult
Overcoming fear
Understanding and facing challenges
Risking stepping out of our comfort zone
Asking for help when we need it
Going for a goal
Encouraging one another so that we all feel stronger
We linked this to a Bible verse that reminds us that we are never alone when we show courage:
‘Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.’
There are some excellent child focused resources available to support further exploration and learning around this via BBC bitesize which can be accessed here.Â
