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7A have had a very busy week learning all about Diwali. 
The children have been amazing this week asking lots of questions and showing lots of interest learning about Diwali ‘the festival of light’ . 
We have read the story or Rama and Sita and answered questions to show our understanding of…

In 10R we have looked at the 5 days of Diwali

Day 1 - Day of Fortune

we learnt about Lakshmi the Goddess of fortune, we discussed what the term ‘fortune’ means and went on a treasure hunt. We then learnt that we should be grateful for what we have in our lives and not be jealous of…

Today we are celebrating Diwali in school. 8A thought about what we had learnt last year about Diwali as part of our Year 7 “celebrations” theme. We could remember that Hindus celebrate Diwali and that they get presents at Diwali. Mrs Crouch reminded us that Diwali was the festival of light and we…

We had a lovely surprise today- we have all been waiting patiently- and today- it finally happened! Our Leavers 22 Hoodies arrived! We couldn’t wait to try them on, we all felt (and looked) very important, smart and grown up! We definitely stand out from the crowd!

A massive Thank You to…

On Thursday 4th November we will be celebrating Diwali throughout school. 
In our classes we will be taking part in a variety of different activities throughout the day to celebrate. 

7P have celebrated Black History Month on the last week in class. 

We listened to a book called M for Melanin, where each letter of the book spoke about something to proud of about yourself and your skin colour. We learnt some Black History through this.

We then used mirrors and iPads to…

What a great couple of weeks in Willow class! We have been excited for Halloween all October and named it “spooky month” in class. Have a look at some of the exciting things we have been up to:

The children have enjoyed some spooky themed lessons and tying work into books such as funny bones…

At the start of last week we were told that all the classes would be having a pumpkin competition which caused great excitement amongst the pupils and staff of 9R.

We went outside to choose our very own, extremely large pumpkin, from our Astley Park pumpkin patch and then we spent time…

8A have had lots of Halloween fun this week. We used our maths skills to match some spooky Halloween objects to numbers. Mrs fisher brought in three pumpkins so we could practice carving scary faces into them. We had lots of fun deciding on our designs and worked in teams. We did a Halloween…

This week in 10G we have embraced Halloween. We had so much fun designing our own scary pumpkin faces. We used our colouring, cutting and sticking skills and even had a go at using PlayDoh to design a scary face.

At Astley Park we had our very own pumpkin patch and some of us went there to…

Beech class have enjoyed dressing up today, we have had skeletons, dinosaurs, scary princess and wizards. We explored the orange sand, and a Halloween tray. Everyone loved having a feel of the insides of the pumpkin after they watched it being cut into, we carved eyes, nose and a mouth. 
We were…

9G has had lots and lots of Halloween fun this week.

We have played Halloween bingo, Halloween dice rolling and of course a Halloween playdough gym. We even carved out a pumpkin and entered it into Astley park school pumpkin competition. Unfortunately, Pamalarrr Primrose Poppy Pumpkin didn’t…