Blog by Tag: Equality

In order to celebrate International Epilepsy Day 9R decided to take part in the 50 million steps challenge by walking around the track on our school field ten times which added up to one full mile. 
 

We all managed to complete the challenge and we all enjoyed the exercise in the fresh air…

Maple Class have had a ‘super’ day celebrating Red Nose Day! Pupils wore their favourite superhero t shirts and costumes. Exploratory play included a red tray and red mashed potato. Attention autism consisted of a bucket filled with red balloons, coloured sand and googly eye red noses in the tuff…

7P have been doing a little bit of celebrating over the last few weeks! 

We took part in a yoga session arranged by Mr Murphy last week which taught us about strategies to help us when we are feeling sad or worried. Everyone participated and followed the instructions of the teacher well.

We…

As it is St Patrick’s Day, Willow Class have got into the Irish spirit!!!

We started by making Irish soda bread. We all had a turn at weighing out the ingredients, mixing them together, and then kneading the dough. 
Once it was ready we all smelt it, or tasted it. Some of us weren’t too keen…

This morning while half of maple class went to strawberry fields to swim the rest of us in Maple Class had fun celebrating St Patrick’s Day. 
First we did an attention autism, in our bucket was a spinning top, a rocket and a flashing spiky ball. Next for stage 2 we did a shamrock fall. Miss Woods…

In Oak on International Women's Day, we looked at pictures of women who are special to us, we talked about who we could see in the pictures and then looked for another picture that was the same. The children all recognised their family members who are special to them and liked to look at each…

In Sycamore for International Woman’s Day we learnt about what International Woman’s Day is and why we celebrate it. We looked at how throughout history, women have been treated differently to men. We talked about how women was not allowed to vote and how in some job roles, men were paid more than…

Today, Willow class celebrated International Women’s Day. 
We talked about why we celebrate this day, and learnt all about some influential women in history. 
We discussed the women in our lives and spoke about what we all want to grow up to be. 
We then then made a special card and flower to…

Today is International Women’s Day! In 8A we have had a brilliant whole class discussion this morning. Some of the pupils asked why there isn’t an “international men’s day”. We looked at how, throughout history, women have been treated differently to men. We talked about how women didn’t used to…

We had quite a lengthy discussion around - why it is important to celebrate this very important day! 
 

We looked at the life of a very important woman Mary Seacole- we all found it very difficult to comprehend what the world was like for women- especially for women from different ethnic…

On Tuesday it was 1^st March, which meant that it was St David’s Day. In 8A we learnt about who St David was and why people in Wales like to celebrate on 1^st March. We found out that the people of Wales like to march in parades, sing and play music and dance too. Lots of people (especially…

Chestnut Class had a lovely virtual visit from Mrs Parekh and we learned all about her Hindu Faith. She chatted to us about her favourite Hindu festival - Holi and the Celebration of Colour and we talked about our class learning of Diwali and the Festival of Light and what we had explored in…