{"id":1907,"date":"2025-12-05T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:03:09","slug":"st-peters-advent-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/2025\/12\/05\/st-peters-advent-service\/","title":{"rendered":"St Peter&#8217;s Advent Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday 2 December the pupils from Years 1 &#8211; 6 packed out the church of Sacred Heart and St Peter the Apostle for our annual Advent Service.  In a series of readings and hymns, the children were led from the prophecy of Jesus&#8217; birth (Isiah 9: 2, 6-7)  through the birth of Jesus foretold (Luke 1: 26-38) on to the journey to Bethlehem (Luke 2: 1-5).  It is at this point that our story stopped so the children could focus on the season of Advent before Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/image-1.png 940w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/image-1-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/image-1-768x214.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured above are the 370 children along with staff and volunteers listening to Fr James Lewis who led a reflection with a special guest appearance from our old friend Fr Jeremy Garrett which delighted the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone is warmly invited to our Christmas Carol Service at the church of Sacred Heart and St Peter the Apostle at 6:30pm on Wednesday 17 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr R Cunningham<br>Executive Headteacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 2 December the pupils from Years 1 &#8211; 6 packed out the church of Sacred Heart and St Peter the Apostle for our annual Advent Service. In a series of readings and hymns, the children were led from the prophecy of Jesus&#8217; birth (Isiah 9: 2, 6-7) through the birth of Jesus foretold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}