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This week 8R have done some super work looking at Buddhism for world religion week.

We discussed the story of Buddha and how he had helped people change into better people and looked at what beliefs the religion has.

After this we listened to the story of Angulimala and discussed the advice…

Today Miss O’Connell celebrated a very special birthday. She has reached a milestone birthday of half a century and received lots of gifts to help her celebrate her 50th birthday. She told us she had the best day ever in our 8R bubble and enjoyed some cake at the end of the day. I’m sure you will…

What a fantastic start to 2021 in 8R!
Although we weren’t all able to return to school after Christmas we have seen some fantastic work produced. Emily began her Monday by doing some Yoga which Miss Brophy and Mrs Devlin enjoyed too. Miss O’Connell preferred taking pictures! We also practiced…

Happy new year everybody!!

8R have had a busy and fun filled first week back in school.

We are missing all the people who are learning from home this week but it was so lovely to see them on our teams calls on Friday! We also had a very, very special visitor on our teams call with Jenny.…

This afternoon 8R have done some very important work all about Islam.

First of all we listened to some information all about Islam and talked about why it is important that we know about other religions.

After this we discussed Sadaqah. We learnt that this is all about charity and being kind…

WOW! 8R have had such a busy week this week.

This week started off with something exciting. It was Jakes birthday on the weekend so he was very kind and brought in some yummy sweets to share with us all, thanks Jake!

We have finished off our letters to Santa this week and have all done some…

8R have had a festive fun filled week this week! We have been so busy and are definitely ready for a nice quiet weekend.

This week we have had our Christmas party and our Christmas lunch! And even worn our best Christmas jumpers.

On Wednesday we had our class Christmas party and Miss Brophy…

This week 8R have got their classroom ready for Christmas! We have spent lots of time making decorations, decorating the tree and putting up their decorations around the classroom.

Even during all these exciting things we have still managed to do lots of super work. We carried on our work…

What a busy fun filled week we have had again in 8R. We have been on a few different fact finding missions. At the beginning of the week Miss Brophy set us the challenge of finding out what a continent was and then see if we could name them. We worked well using our iPads to name the seven…

This week 8R have been doing some super work on gender stereotyping and how everybody can be different and how we can make sure we talk to people in the best way.

We did some work in small groups and looked at the different ways people can be different. We talked about how our families,…

This week 8R having been learning all about why we celebrate Remembrance Day. We made our own acrostic poems about this subject and discovered that we have some budding poets in our class. We made some lovely poppies wreaths along with some great silhouette soldier paintings. On Wednesday we…

In class this week as well as doing our usual class work we have been celebrating Bonfire Night. Miss Brophy organised some fun activities which included making some chocolate apples, making some special cake called Parkin and creating some lovely art work. We weighed all the ingredients out and…