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10G have worked really hard to understand what gender stereotypes means. We talked about what jobs boys have and what jobs girls have. Some of us said that girls are nurses and boys are builders. Then we had a look at some pictures and saw that both men and woman can be nurses and builders. We did…

On Wednesday in Rowan class we listened to the story ‘dogs don’t do ballet’. A lovely story about a dog who wants to become a ballerina but everyone keeps says dog don’t do ballet. But, we discovered in our story that dogs do ballet. 

We discussed what jobs we would like to do when we are…

It has been another super week in 9G. 

This week we have worked hard on our reading and writing. 9G tried out using colourful semantics on the iPads, creating sentences about our story Star in the Jar. We really enjoyed doing it this way and will be using the iPads to help us going forward. We…

This week Beech class have begun our topic- Toys. We have explored wheeled toys. Throughout the week we have made wheeled tracks, had our own Beech class car wash and explored the rhyme 'Wheels on the bus'. While exploring all of our lovely activities we have been focusing on being kind to our…

Chestnut Class’s theme this week was all about ‘Diwali and toys’. We have worked so hard again challenging ourselves learning numbers by singing songs. Developing our writing skills through mark making. Looking at different shapes and sorting big / little cars or putting cars on, under or next…

This week in 8G, we’ve been thinking about different types of jobs. We started off by reading a story about Charlie the firefighter. We then took turns to choose a job card, before sorting the cards into “men’s jobs” and “women’s jobs”. We had some fantastic conversations about some of the jobs,…

Yesterday, Maple class saw that it was raining outside and thought that we would make the most of it! We watched Peppa Pig jumping in muddy puddles, put on our coats and wellies and headed out into our outdoor classroom to get splashing! We worked together to make some puddles by filling up…

As part of our socially thinking zones of regulation programme, pupils are encouraged to find out what activities support them in their different colour zones. Today we explored a range of activities which pupils then reflected on. Would it help make them more alert on those tired days? Or would…

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 9G have been looking at gender stereotypes. We read a story about a Daddy Seahorse who looks after the eggs until they hatched. We talked about how it isn’t always mummy’s that do things for you, daddy’s do just as much!
 

We then took part in two activities, one where we chose…

We used our 1:1 iPads and the Padlet app to answer some questions about stereotypes.The first thing we did was send Mrs Clarke a picture of a girls toy and then a boys toy.

We looked at some different jobs including, nurse, beautician, electrician, footballer and we wrote on our iPads who…

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…