Blog by Tag: Equality

This week Beech class have begun our topic- Toys. We have explored wheeled toys. Throughout the week we have made wheeled tracks, had our own Beech class car wash and explored the rhyme 'Wheels on the bus'. While exploring all of our lovely activities we have been focusing on being kind to our…

Chestnut Class’s theme this week was all about ‘Diwali and toys’. We have worked so hard again challenging ourselves learning numbers by singing songs. Developing our writing skills through mark making. Looking at different shapes and sorting big / little cars or putting cars on, under or next…

This week in 8G, we’ve been thinking about different types of jobs. We started off by reading a story about Charlie the firefighter. We then took turns to choose a job card, before sorting the cards into “men’s jobs” and “women’s jobs”. We had some fantastic conversations about some of the jobs,…

This week 9G have been looking at gender stereotypes. We read a story about a Daddy Seahorse who looks after the eggs until they hatched. We talked about how it isn’t always mummy’s that do things for you, daddy’s do just as much!
 

We then took part in two activities, one where we chose…

We used our 1:1 iPads and the Padlet app to answer some questions about stereotypes.The first thing we did was send Mrs Clarke a picture of a girls toy and then a boys toy.

We looked at some different jobs including, nurse, beautician, electrician, footballer and we wrote on our iPads who…

This week at school we are thinking about challenging gender stereotypes. In 7A we have been thinking about gender stereotypes in terms of job roles. We read the story “Charlie The Firefighter” and discussed whether we thought Charlie would be a male or female firefighter. Most learners thought…

Today we looked at challenging gender stereotypes. We first of all read a story about Charlie the firefighter and found out that she was a girl even though we at first thought that she would be a boy. We then looked at different jobs using a colourful semantics  resource on the book creator app on…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed a fun-filled day learning about Diwali.

Sycamore have been learning different facts about Diwali. We found out that:

• Diwali is a very important festival celebrated by many people around the world.
• Diwali is celebrated by Hindu’s but can be celebrated by…

Willow class have had two special theme days to enjoy this week- Remembrance Day and Children in Need.

On Wednesday 11th we looked at what Poppy Day means to us and how it’s nice to show we are grateful and show respect. We all are very respectful in Willow class and are trying to hard to…

This week as part of our Celebrations topic we have been learning about Diwali. We learnt that Hindus celebrate with lamps, prayers, gifts and fireworks on the third day of Diwali. We applied our learning about dancing with props last week to create a partner dance to show a fireworks display.…

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Welcome to the last day of Sports Week. We hope you've all enjoyed doing the different activities as well as seeing some of the videos of the different events that take place in the Paralympics.

Today we will be looking at…

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Welcome to Thursday's blog, today we will be looking at the Great Britain Swimmer, Ellie Simmonds, who won the gold medal at the Paralympics and beat the world record by 2…