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Children from Ash Hill School learn about Easter At St Peter's Church, Micklefield.
SCHOOL children will be learning about the Easter story with an exciting initiative run by High Wycombe Youth for Christ.
Up to 60 children each day will be visiting St Michael and All Angels, Hughenden in Buckinghamshire, where they will be given a drink and biscuits before quizzes, craft activities and other fun, interactive workshops take place to give them the chance to learn about the Christian season.
Similar activities will take place at St Peter's, Micklefield. Erica Holt, of Wycombe YFC, said the workshop is one of three offered to schools through the year.
Christmas Unwrapped is another opportunity to learn about a major Christian festival and School Transition is the chance to help year six children as they prepare for the move to secondary school. This year four schools will be attending the workshops with three partnering Anglican churches.
She said:"The benefit and fruit of the workshops is vast; not only does it enable children to gain a greater understanding of Christianity, but it gives them an opportunity to know what a church and Christians are like. "Alongside this, it enables the church to build strong community relationships with the schools. " One of the schools is now having assemblies led by its local church.
The School Transition workshop shows that the Church is interested in all areas of life, not just the spiritual, but does show that the Bible can help us in day to day life and uses the story of Daniel as an example of someone we can learn from.
The ideas have been adapted to the High Wycombe area from ideas originally put together by Wayne Dixon, of Scripture Union in Slough.
Erica said: "The ethos is the same and these sessions are run all over the UK but we have adapted them to our context."