Blog Author: Miss Buck

9A enjoyed having Owen R’s mum and Teddy’s mum join us this week for our SMSC lesson on Buddha Day! 
 

We enjoyed learning about the Buddha and Buddhism by: 

- watching the Buddha’s story 

- learning about the Buddha, Buddhism and how Buddha Day is celebrated around the world 

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9A had their first Share Our Learning event of the Summer term this week! 
We had Josh’s mum and Daniel’s mum visit us. 

The pupils started off by performing their sensory regulation carousels. 
They enjoyed showing the parents how to use the resources. Josh even used the head massager on…

9A did absolutely amazing in their Tag Rugby tournament this week.

They got to the final and came 2nd place! 

Here is a brief synopsis of each game: 

First game -

We lost 4-3 in the last minute of the game! 

Jake scored 2 excellent tries with huge runs and he also passed…

9A has had a fantastic time celebrating the King’s Coronation this week! 
 

We enjoyed a range of activities in the hall, as well as in class activities, including: 

- compass work involving key words linked to the Coronation (as part of our My Thinking and Problem Solving learning) 

-…

Last week, the pupils in 9A celebrated Earth Day! 

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970. 

We completed a carousel of activities including: 

• Earth Day crafts: making their own painted Earth…

In 9A this week, we’ve been learning about Eid. 

The children enjoyed our focused lesson about Eid and Islamic Culture. 

First of all, we discussed what Eid is: a festival to celebrate the end of Ramadan. We recapped what Ramadan is and other important Islamic traditions and aspects of…

This week in 9A, we have been learning about Easter! 

This involved us reading the Easter Story and learning about Easter traditions. We also made Easter Egg nest cakes (using mini eggs too of course) and enjoyed doing lots of different Easter activities. 

These included…

In PE this week, the children started off the lesson by playing a game called Dragons. This consisted of them making two chains where they were holding onto each other’s shoulders and they had to try to remove the tag from the last person on the other chain. They really enjoyed this warm up and…

We had a brilliant time at holiday club today!  

Group 3A split into two groups for the activities that we did in school. These activities included: playing on the Nintendo Switch (Just Dance, Minecraft, Mario Kart), playing outside on the playground, walking around the track, playing in the…

In our My Communication and The World about Me lesson today, 9A learnt about the different basic body parts as well as the organs and some pupils even went on to learning about the bones as an extra challenge! 
 

They really enjoyed this lesson and learnt lots about what’s inside their…

Last week, during our first week back, we started accessing the community again. This included a trip to the library to source books about healthy lifestyles. The pupils found a lot of books about healthy eating and enjoyed looking at them/reading them whilst at the library.

The pupils…

This week, 9A have absolutely loved making Xmas trees out of pastry and Nutella! They followed adult instructions well in order to effectively make large Xmas trees and other Christmas cut outs. 
 

They were very yummy. Have a great Christmas all!