Blog Author: Miss Cross

Today is Sian’s birthday.

Sycamore have had lots of fun helping Sian celebrate her special day. This afternoon we have enjoyed dancing, games and yummy chocolate cakes for snack. 

I am sure all of Sian’s friends at home will join us in wishing her a very special and very happy…

We hope everybody has had lots of fun learning about their class religion in our World Religion Week activities.

This week we have had lots of photos and videos shared with us of everybody at Astley Park completing our very special World Religion Week Six Star Challenge. Your teachers and…

This morning some of our families joined us on Microsoft Teams for our Share our Learning event.

We enjoyed sharing a Christmas Quiz! 

Sycamore worked in 3 small teams and worked together to think about the questions and write out the answers. 

Great work everybody!

On Thursday we all enjoyed a very yummy and very special McDonalds treat for our lunch. 

We all chose our own dinner and sat with our friends, talking more about Christmas and the toys that came in our happy meals!

What a great treat to have an early Christmas dinner in class with all our friends today.

Sycamore enjoyed pulling crackers, telling jokes, eating lots of yummy food and talking about what we all want for Christmas! 

We are very excited for Christmas now!

This week Sycamore have got active and taken part in the ‘Walk a Mile’ challenge. We had to walk 10 laps to complete our mile. 

On Thursday and Friday we spent time collecting stickers for all the laps we completed. 

Together Sycamore completed a combined 107 laps - more than 10 miles…

Today Sycamore have been learning about gender stereotypes.

First we spoke about what a stereotype is - we learned that a stereotype is an idea or view that someone believes that might not be true.

We then enjoyed a carpet time activity watching Miss Cross make outlines of a boy and a girl.…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed a fun-filled day learning about Diwali.

Sycamore have been learning different facts about Diwali. We found out that:

• Diwali is a very important festival celebrated by many people around the world.
• Diwali is celebrated by Hindu’s but can be celebrated by…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed learning about Children in Need and celebrating through lots of activities. 

We learned that: 

• Children in Need is used to help to raise money for children in need. 
• Children in need are children not as lucky as us. We said it can be children who don’t…

Sycamore have enjoyed a day of activities themed around ‘Remembrance Day’. 

This morning we enjoyed a circle time and we shared our ideas and what we remember about Remembrance Day. We then had our 2 minutes silence to remember all the soldiers who have fought in wars to help keep us…

On Thursday, Sycamore had fun in class celebrating bonfire night with crafts and exploring some popular traditions. 

First we collected sticks on a regulation walk, exploring outside, that we used later in the afternoon to help Miss Cross build our own ‘fire’. 

We explored…

Sycamore’s Spook-tacular Week!

Sycamore class have had great fun within our Halloween theme, this week. 

They have been very busy:

• Working together to count out ingredients to add to the magic potions.
• Using words and gestures to request shapes to create faces on…