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This week in Beech class we have been learning about ourselves. We have been practicing sharing and playing with our friends. Supported by our dolly role play we explored about self care by washing the babies, brushing hair and feeding them. We have explored lots of different foods and role played…

Chestnut Class continued to explore more toys this week. We have been counting people onto a toy bus and labelling how many people are at the bus stop. Some of us got creative and even made our very own bus from a plastic milk bottle, red paint, glue and black card, they looked fabulous!

We…

11R had a great week last week. We continued to work on our English objectives focussing on punctuation and spelling. We also continued work on our ASDAN Unit - Working as Part of a Team. We split into two teams and agreed our team rules. Each team then set about assigning roles within their team…

During this term we have had a story every lunchtime before we go outside. Our first book was The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackey. In this story we learned all about friendship and looking out for each other and knowing it’s ok to be different. We like the pictures in the…

10G have been very busy practising to become parents for our ASDAN course. We talked about what we think babies need, what mums and dads need and what isn't needed to look after a baby. We decided that babies needed milk, the mums and dads needed a car seat if they are going to drive anywhere with…

This week everyone in school has been looking at challenging gender stereotypes. In Oak class we have been reading a book called ‘The Daddy Book’, a book which celebrates different kinds of dads and highlights the many reasons they are so special. We all really enjoyed talking about our dads And…

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.…

This week in 11R we have been learning all about gender stereotyping. We started off by watching a video where we all had to share our thoughts on how people looked and what opinions we formed based on that. Everyone contributed maturely towards the discussion and listened respectfully to each…

This week Willow class looked at gender stereotypes and thought about what ideas we already had about gender, maybe without realising.  We tied this into looking at how this affects the jobs and hobbies we think people can have due to their gender.

We explored which stereotypes we were affected…

This week 9R have created some great pieces of work. We have continued with a book review of the Iron Man, using amazing adjectives, then creating fantastic interview questions which we recorded on the Green Screen.  In computing with have been exploring different types of coding devices - making…

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…

10G have been incredibly busy this week. As well as practising our parenting skills and working on challenging gender stereotypes we have been very busy learning all about the human body, practising writing letters, developing our ICT skills, practising our maths skills and working on attacking…