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Today year 11 learnt that each colour of the Buddhism Prayer flags are to support Buddhist in living a better life, a life without anger, jealousy, ignorance, delusion and pride. We then made our own flags.

This afternoon we looked at the four sights that the Buddha saw which lead him to…

Our Buddhism artefact table is becoming increasingly busy now. 

Pupils took part in a hide and seek information activity learning different information teaching them the significance of prayer beads within the Buddhist faith.

We then used our maths skills to count the correct…

Today 8R have been learning about Harvest Festival during World Religion Week. Mrs Clarke hid lots of food around the class and we had to find it and build our own Harvest Basket. Some of us got to taste different foods and say what we thought of them. Some of us worked on our fine motor skills…

During this weeks Superflex session we met “Brain Eater”, the unthinkable character that eats our thinking brains when we use technology or distract or are distracted by others. We talked about the impact of using technology at bed time, and how if we are up late watching TV or playing on our…

For World Religion Week 7G are learning about Sikhism! 
 

We started our learning about the religion by looking at their place of Worship called a Gurdwara. We watched a short video clip of a little girl showing us what happens there. 

There was some good remembering from the video: Harry…

 This week for World Religion week 10G are studying Hinduism. Today we  enjoyed a very interesting and informative morning at a visit to the Gujurat  Hindu Society and Temple in Preston.

The students were shown around the Temple so that they were able to look at all the different Gods and…

Chestnut had a trip out to Ashurst Country Park. It was a bit wet and windy but we still had a great time!

Some of us loved the preteens pirate ship and were playing pirates.

We went for a woodland walk, splashed in muddy puddles and found the Gruffalo!

This week is Religion week at Astley Park School.

8G are learning all about Christianity. Yesterday we spoke about what Christians believe and the rules that they follow. We talked about why the symbol of a Cross is important and where Christians go to pray.

We then made amazing pictures…

This morning 11R took part in a meditation session, focusing on Buddha with intense burning in the background. Pupils followed a guided relaxation video helping us to set stress and relax. This is a practice often carried out in the Buddhist religion. We ended the meditation with a feelings circle…

9G had a very fun and busy first week back. We are learning all about Doctors this term. We have been very busy playing doctors and nurses in our role play area. We drew around each other’s bodies and then painted the outline, it was really interesting to see how tall we all were. We also made…

This morning 7R have been practicing their Functional Maths skills in the community. We are learning all about money. We went to Massas cafe and enjoyed an ice cream or a snack and a drink. We were asked to order and pay for our own snack. Some of us found finding the correct coins to make a total…

What a great start to Religion Week!

We started the day with a Padlet exercise saying what we know about the Buddhist religion and thinking about what we would like to learn.

We learned about the birth of Buddha and had a Kahoot! To follow. 

We also looked at a time of…