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Today 11G found out lots of new information about Diwali.
We looked at power points and had fun using the internet to help us find the answers to Miss Robertson question sheet.  We looked at rangoli patterns and made some of our own…..great fun. 

Elephants are an important symbol in…

Today in Willow class we were learning all about Divali! We looked at what Divali actually means- what is it and how is it celebrated? The children enjoyed talking about the special celebration and ways it is celebrated using special food, music, decorations and lights. Some of the children drew…

Today in Maple Class we have been celebrating Diwali. 

This morning Miss Howarth did a Diwali themed attention autism. In the bucket were a few light up objects to celebrate the festival of light and an Indian doll. 
For stage 2 Miss Howarth used different coloured rice and made a rangoli…

In October Willow Class learnt about why we have black history month, celebrating the achievements of black men and women. We have had lots of good conversation about wrong it would be to be be treated differently for how you look or where you come from with learners relating this to our own class…

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…

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…

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…

We have been busy looking at Black History Month.

We looked at article’s, watched video clips and power points.

Then as a class we discussed things we had seen.

We where shocked with some of the things we saw.

We made books about Rosa Parks, a very brave women who changed the…

This week 11R have been busy with lots of new things including visiting Preston College twice and beginning our new ASDAN module, Environmental awareness. 

We thought about what environments are and how they link to our local community before thinking about how we could improve our school…

11G  have be busy this week.

We have been looking at things that We can do .  These ranged from making a cup of tea for our family, to playing with family and friends. We found out that we could do lots of things on our own. Doing things for someone else or for yourselve makes you feel…

Wow, what a busy week we have had in 10G! 
 

This week in our P.E lesson we have been practicing our ball skills. To warm up we had to listen carefully to instructions all about changing direction, we did amazing! We all worked incredibly hard and did some super throwing and catching with…