Blog Author: Miss Buck

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! 
 

9A enjoyed having our Xmas Dinner on Thursday this week! A couple of the pupils wanted to have packed lunch instead but the rest of the children absolutely loved their Christmas dinner. 

Amelia even tried some of the Xmas Dinner! 
 

Merry Christmas everybody! 
 

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9A had their second Share Our Learning event of this term on Tuesday this week! We had two mums and one grandma join us for a fun afternoon of My Thinking and Problem Solving. 

We learnt how to follow instructions in order to make blueberry milkshakes and how to follow instructions to make…

9A had their first Share Our Learning event of this academic year on Tuesday this week! We had two mums and one dad join us for a fun afternoon of My Thinking and Problem Solving. 

We learnt how to follow instructions in order to make cranberry and raspberry smoothies and how to follow…

We’ve had a brilliant week in 9A! 

In our My Communication lessons this week, 9A learnt about verbs. Verbs are doing words, for example, running. One group practised identifying verbs used in the text - “Meg and Mog”, and the other group practised writing sentences using verbs, linked to…