Children and Church Schools...

Family Services

These happen once a month in Aldermaston, Beenham, Midgham and Woolhampton, and are especially designed to include children and young people. It contains all the usual features of a church service – songs, a Bible reading, prayers, a talk – but is tailored to the needs of an all-age congregation. 'Anniversary candles' are shared as part of the worship and those who have been baptised in the church are invited to celebrate their baptism anniversary.

Family Communion with children's activities

Aldermaston and Beenham have a slightly shorter, family-friendly communion, where children can go and do fun activities based on the Gospel story. The Aldermaston service is at Cedars School (Church Rd, Aldermaston, RG7 4LR) for this so that we have a separate space for the children. The dates are:

8th July - Beenham, 9.15am
15th July - Aldermaston, 10.45am

Messy Church

Messy Church takes place bi-monthly on a Saturday at Woolhampton Primary School for the whole benefice.

Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark gathers pre-schoolers together on the first Friday of the month from 10:00 to 11:00am at Aldermaston Parish Hall – and also, from 20th April 2018 at Midgham Church from 10:00 to 11:00am on the third Friday of the month – for play, a story and singing. See the panels on this page for further information.

Local schools

We have especially strong links with our three church schools and are actively involved in the governing bodies as well as our clergy taking part in school assemblies, RE and visits to our churches.

For more details about our church schools visit their websites:

Aldermaston Church of England Primary School  ~  Brimpton Church of England Primary School  ~  Woolhampton Church of England Primary School

Other schools in the benefice with which we have close links are:

Beenham Primary School  ~  The Cedars School  ~  Elstree School

Further information

Our children’s work across our five parishes is co-ordinated by Cara Smart who can be contacted by email for more information about any services or activities.