Blog by Tag: Explorers and Adventurers

Hello everyone, please enjoy this blog to help you learn about the religion of Christianity. This blog has been researched and written by Daniel in Willow class. I hope you enjoy learning about this religion.- Miss Riley, Willow Class

What is Christianity?

Christianity is a religion…

Hello everyone, please enjoy this blog to help you learn about the religion of Hinduism. This blog has been researched and written by Grace in Willow class. I hope you enjoy learning about this religion.- Miss Riley, Willow Class

What is Hinduism?

Hinduism is a religion practiced by…

Wow, Willow class have really impressed all their class teachers this term with how well everyone has adapted to changes! 
Children in school have been settling back into lessons and following our timetables, especially enjoying our daily teams calls with friends learning from home! The children…

Hello everyone, please enjoy this blog to help you learn about the religion of Islam. This blog has been researched and written by Hasan in Willow class. I hope you enjoy learning about this religion.- Miss Riley, Willow Class

What is Islam?

Islam is a religion practiced by Muslims.
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We have some exciting news for Willow class- this week we have welcomed a new member of staff to our team- Mrs Smith! We are all very lucky and the children in school have enjoyed getting to know her. Mrs Smith is very excited to meet everyone who is learning at home and has written you a…

Willow have had a lovely couple of weeks of Christmas activities!

Some of the magical moments we want to share are:

• Christmas dinner in class
• Christmas party lunch where we all had a McDonalds
• Christmas bingo in class where we invited families to share our learning
• Christmas photo…

What an exciting day for Willow class!

We were all so happy to come to school in our cosy pyjamas and own clothes for a special Christmas breakfast. We were all eager to see Santa on the video call and got to speak to Santa on the screen at the front of class- we understood that Santa is doin…

Last week Willow learnt about Islam, concentrating on how Islam teaches us to show kindness and to be charitable. We looked at their religious book, the Qur’an and what values Muslims are taught by Islam. 
We are very lucky in Willow class because one of our friends taught us about how he…

What a wonderful winter week for Willow class!

We have continued our work on the story “a Christmas collar”, learnt more about Arctic animals in science and started practicing for our class play, making outfits and rehearsing. 
We also worked really hard with our maths this week looking at…

This week Willow class had our second class party of the year- another new 11 year old!
This Wednesday we wished Kayla a very happy birthday and had a party in the afternoon!

We played musical bumps, don’t drop the balloon and ate some yummy cake that Kayla very kindly brought in to share! 
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This week Willow class looked at gender stereotypes and thought about what ideas we already had about gender, maybe without realising.  We tied this into looking at how this affects the jobs and hobbies we think people can have due to their gender.

We explored which stereotypes we were affected…

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…