Blog by Tag: The World About Me

On Tuesday it was the first full moon of the Lunar calendar which meant it was Chinese New Year! 
pin Willow class we looked at how this special event is celebrated and why it is important to Chinese culture. We looked at ways people around the world celebrate the special day and days following…

The Year of the Tiger in Sycamore 

Chinese New Year in Sycamore class, we looked at where china is, the population and what it is like in China. We discussed that there are different languages spoken in different parts of China. 

We then went on to look at Chinese New Year, we…

7P have been busy since they have returned to school! 
 

We have been introduced to our class topic of We are Going on a Safari, and worked together to create our own mindfulness colouring large safari wall. We can’t wait to show you when it is finished! 
 

As part of our My Thinking and…

This week in Sycamore it was World Religion Week in Sycamore we looked at Islam, we looked at The 5 Pillars of Islam and the beliefs of how to live a good life.  We looked at the declaration of faith (Shahada),  prayer (salah), alms-giving (zakat), fasting (sawm) and pilgrimage (hajj)

We then…

Happy New Year everyone!

8A have had a fantastic start to the new year. We thought you might like to know all about our new theme, "Our Planet" and what we will be learning about this term. 

My Communication

In My Communication this half term, Mrs Crouch will be helping us to write some…

Willow class have had an exciting couple of weeks gearing up to Christmas. The children have enjoyed some festive themed work creating clay Christmas magnets to finish off our science topic, working on our sentence structures writing letters to Santa and Christmas cards to friends and family.  In…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…