Blog Author: Mrs Crouch

Over the Christmas holidays, Owen and Ms Carter will be celebrating their birthdays. Today we enjoyed some cake and sweets to celebrate at snack time. We hope you both have lovely days. 

Today has been our last full day together in 7A before Christmas. We have had a very festive day to celebrate! We enjoyed our virtual breakfast with Santa this morning, opened our Christmas presents, enjoyed Christmas dinner and watched the school Christmas production. We have had a wonderful day.…

Yesterday we celebrated Mrs Fisher’s birthday. We hope you had a great day Mrs Fisher!

Today 7A have been thinking about Sadaqah. We learnt that for Muslims, Sadaqah is all about being kind to others. We created our own kindness jars following an in-task schedule and we put ideas inside of things we could do to be kind to others. We came up with some fantastic suggestions. Joshua…

This week at school we are thinking about challenging gender stereotypes. In 7A we have been thinking about gender stereotypes in terms of job roles. We read the story “Charlie The Firefighter” and discussed whether we thought Charlie would be a male or female firefighter. Most learners thought…

This week as part of our Celebrations topic we have been learning about Diwali. We learnt that Hindus celebrate with lamps, prayers, gifts and fireworks on the third day of Diwali. We applied our learning about dancing with props last week to create a partner dance to show a fireworks display.…

7A have loved learning about Bonfire Night this week as part of our Celebrations topic. 

On Wednesday afternoon, we completed a challenge to create safety fireworks for the younger children to refer to on Bonfire Night. We listened to a safety presentation and then added our own suggestions…

This term our theme is Celebrations. We have really enjoyed celebrating Halloween this week. We completed a Blue-Bot challenge to make potions, completed a Halloween workout, played Halloween games, wrote about Halloween on Purple Mash, had fun in the photo booth and enjoyed Halloween treats. We…

This afternoon we celebrated Teddy and Mrs Taylor’s birthdays. We played party games - musical statues and musical chairs and then we enjoyed a yummy chocolate cake!

We hope you enjoy celebrating for the rest of the day!

This week 7A worked on a spaghetti challenge in pairs. They had ten minutes to see who could build the tallest tower using spaghetti and playdough. Jake and Megan won the challenge and we discussed the team work skills they used to support winning the challenge such as good talking, helping each…

This week 7A have been busy learning all about the seasons and how we need to wear different clothes due to changes of weather with the seasons. We have completed lots of online activities such as games, art tasks, written tasks, a virtual autumn quiz, an autumn yoga video call and the activities…

This half term, as part of our “Our World” theme, we have been thinking about Autumn. Today some of us met on Teams to take part in an autumn themed quiz. If you missed the quiz, have a go at answering the questions below and send your answers to Mrs Crouch!

1. What colour are the leaves on the…