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On Thursday 30th June from 10.00am until 2.30pm local primary schools will be participating in a special educational event entitled JC Today at Pershore Abbey.

JC Today focuses on Jesus Christ and Christian worship and symbols and is organised by the Diocese of Worcester. The event will offer the children a series of workshops on worship and symbols and contributes to the Religious Education syllabus followed in schools. The workshops will include ones on making altar frontals, drama, dance, drumming and song and these will lead into a Eucharist Service in the afternoon. These events are hosted in churches throughout the diocese and have become very popular with local schools.

The schools taking part include: Defford cum Besford First School; Upton Snodsbury First School; Fladbury First School; Crowle First School and Church Lench First School

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The Diocese of Worcester is one of 44 dioceses in the Church of England. It covers an area of 671 square miles and includes parishes in the County of Worcestershire, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, and a few parishes in northern Gloucestershire, south east Wolverhampton and Sandwell.

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