Blog by Tag: Understanding the World

8R have had such a busy week this week!

We started our week by looking at why St David’s day is celebrated and thinking about the first day of spring. As you can see in our photos we did some wonderful art work, even Miss Brophy gave it a go.

And Mrs Devlin surprised us all with a lovely…

11G learners both in school and at home had a fantastic World Book Day today, starting with story time. As a class we have been studying animal habitats and at the moment we are looking at Oceans. For World Book Day, we chose the story Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz.…

7A have been working hard today this week. 
 

On Monday in school we practiced our number skills with Mrs Fisher and then went on a materials hunt outside in the afternoon. 
 

On Wednesday we continued to work on our number skills and then in the afternoon continued to learn about the…

8R have been so so busy this week! 
We started off the week by focusing on newspapers and the features of them. Next week we are going to write a short newspaper report all about World War 2 and include some exciting facts which we used our iPads to research.

On our Monday teams call we had a…

This week 9R have taken over the blog. We have learned about WW2, read some of our class read “A medal for Leroy” by Michael Morpurgo. We have used our iPads to learn about Well-being and Social Media and taken part in the 6 star challenge.

Over to 9R

This week is mental health week and…

This week Willow class have loved looking at more animals.. wild ones this time! We have enjoyed learning about all different animals that we might find in a zoo then finding out important facts like what habitats the zoos need to build for them and how they survive. We practiced our spellings,…

Hello everyone, please enjoy this blog to help you learn about the religion of Judaism. Joseph in Willow class helped Miss Riley to create this blog by reminding of key words and choosing which pictures to add. I hope you enjoy learning about this religion.

What is Judaism?

Judaism is a…

This week 8R have done some super work looking at Buddhism for world religion week.

We discussed the story of Buddha and how he had helped people change into better people and looked at what beliefs the religion has.

After this we listened to the story of Angulimala and discussed the advice…

Another busy, busy week in 9R, we’ve had lots of fun and learnt lots of new things. We’ve listened to a story called One Boy’s War read by Mrs Cobham, a true story about a young boy called Sydney who went to war and never returned. The story is on the school you tube channel for you to watch. We…

What a busy week for Willow class!

This week was world religion week and our religion to explore was Hinduism! We looked at two Hindu celebrations- Divali and Holi. In class we learnt about the story behind Divali, the story  of Rama and Sita. We learnt why it is called the festival of light…

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

What is Buddhism?

Buddhism started in India over 2,500…

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…