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This week 10R have looked at Judaism.

pupils have explored what it is like to be a Jew, learning about their holy day Shabbat. They have also learnt about the symbol, the Star of David. 
 

We incorporated Hanukkah, a festival of dedication through light, into a yoga session. Pupils…

On Wednesday 30th November Chestnut Class celebrated St Andrew’s Day! We learned that St Andrew  was a friend of Jesus and was there when Jesus fed lots of people with just 5 loaves and 2 fish. We have explored water play and caught our own fish this week, created Scottish flags using different…

Today in 11R we have learned so much about St Andrew the patron saint of Scotland. We started with word searches and crosswords which introduced us to some new words. Then we watched the story of St Andrew and did some guided reading from a Powerpoint. Some of us did a sequencing activity to help…

We were all excited today in 11G for two reasons- tomorrow we can officially start to talk about Christmas and today we were going to learn all about St Andrew.

At the beginning of the lesson we really didn’t know very much about the patron saint of Scotland, but after listening to a…

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

What a fun and busy week 9R have had during the week, researching facts of interest about the festival of light which is celebrated by Hindus world wide , creating and building bridges and also some pupils got the opportunity to sew beautiful craft squares with a renowned artist, Victoria…

This week in Chestnut Class we have been learning about Diwalli and the Festival of Light through Attention Autism, music, food, creating Diyas and expressive art. During Attention Autism Stage 1 we enjoyed looking at all the lights and coloured ribbons and during Stage 2 Miss Spear created a…

On their return to school this week 11R received their leavers hoodies which they all look very smart in. A big thank you to 11G staff from all of us for arranging them.   
This week there have been lots of activities going on. We have continued with our Environmental Awareness module looking at…

7P have settled in very well after their half term holidays. It was great to talk about what they had all been up to and look at pictures too!

This week 7P have been learning about Diwali through My Thinking and Problem Solving and My Communication. Learners in 7P have shown that they can…

Beech class has been looking at all of the colours for Diwali, we had a lovely sensory tray with lots of colourful sand and glitter. We made a glittery candle to celebrate the festival of light, and we had some Indian music and dancing on the screen to watch too. 
For Bonfire night we melted…

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…