7A

Hello everyone!

What a funny old week it has been this week! We hope that all of you are keeping safe and well and that you’ve all had a good rest over the Christmas holidays.

Boris announced on Monday night that schools were to close so we have found ourselves with half of you in…

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!

As Celebrations has been our theme this first term, we obviously had to end it by looking at Christmas!

On Monday we finally filmed our scenes for the school's virtual nativity "Coronativity" outside on the field (we play the part of the wise men seeing the star in the sky and following it to…

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…

Hello everyone, apologies for the delay with our blog! Last week was another very busy week in 7A. On Monday we began learning about the story of Hanukkah as part of our celebration topic (as excited as we all are for Christmas, we decided November was still a little bit early to start our…

We have continued our work on Diwali at the beginning of our week in 7A this week.

On Monday we started to read a story called Dipal’s Diwali that follows a Hindu family throughout their Diwali celebrations. We all enjoyed learning more about Diwali and what is involved during the…

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.…

Another busy busy start to the week in 7A this week! The next celebration that we are focusing on is the Hindu festival of Diwali. To begin our learning about this we read the story of Rama and Sita during our My Communication lesson on Monday morning. Josh and Jake were already familiar with the…

7A Remember

At 11:00am yesterday morning, 7A stopped their work to have a minute silence in remembrance of the soldiers who lost their lives for us. Out of respect, Connor chose to stand up throughout.

In the afternoon in our World About Me lesson, we started by discussing…