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9G enjoyed a trip to McDonalds yesterday. We walked safely and talked about crossing safely and not talking to strangers. When we arrived We had a choice of chips or McFlurry and a drink. Everyone ordered their own choice, paid for it and collected their order showing some amazing independence and…

9G were all very busy last week learning all about the religion ‘Islam’. We learnt all about the Islam Creation Story, got to look at pictures of different areas of a mosque, made prayer mats, made mosaics, practised yoga and made chicken curry. We also got to take turns using a prayer mat to pray…

As part of our Doctor, Doctor! topic, the G classes are learning more about how to keep healthy and the importance of this.

8G and 7G decided to team up for a change and to do a PE lesson together.

We started off with our daily mile where we walked around the bike track. It was lovely to see…

On Thursday morning, 8G continued their work on Christianity for World Religion Week.

We read a sensory story all about Jesus walking on water.

Jesus had gone up to the mountains to pray alone, while his friends (the disciples) went on a boat and sailed out to sea.

It started to rain-…

This week, 7R have been learning about Sikhism. We started by learning about the 5Ks. We watched videos and interacted with props before making our own Kangha or designing a Kirpan. We talked about what the 5Ks represented for Sikhs. We then learnt all about the Gudwara. We learnt about the…

This week has been World Religion Week in school and 10R have been learning all about Hinduism. We have learnt about Hindu Temples and the god Brahman and how worship takes place amongst Hindus. We have also looked at the creative side within the Hindu faith. This has seen 10R create their very…

Wow what a busy week we have had in Maple Class!

This week we have been learning all about Judiasm with Miss Curry and Mr Darbyshire. Miss Curry led a sensory story on the creation story and we all started to be able to retell it using sensory props and signs. We have also explored different…

What a fantastic week 10G have had, exploring Hinduism. We have dressed in traditional clothing, visited a place of worship, meditated with Yoga, enjoyed creating music with instruments and our voices, made Diwali lamps and also Rangoli patterns. This afternoon we finished off making traditional…

Chestnut Class have learnt all about Islam this week. We have watched Attention Autism sessions learning that they go to Mosque. We made window colour catchers that were shaped in the crescent and star.

Thursday afternoon we explored lots of different themed activities, colouring pictures,…

Beech class have enjoyed exploring Islam this week with a range of different fun activities we started with  Attention Autism where we explored the star and crescent moon of Islam with flour we then had star and crescent moon painting, role play using dressing up and we even got to look at the…

Today year 11 learnt that each colour of the Buddhism Prayer flags are to support Buddhist in living a better life, a life without anger, jealousy, ignorance, delusion and pride. We then made our own flags.

This afternoon we looked at the four sights that the Buddha saw which lead him to…

Our Buddhism artefact table is becoming increasingly busy now. 

Pupils took part in a hide and seek information activity learning different information teaching them the significance of prayer beads within the Buddhist faith.

We then used our maths skills to count the correct…