4 Dec

9G Learning about Sadaqah

9G have taken part in an activity this week where we have made our own Sadaqah Jars or Kindness Jars. Sadaqah is about being charitable to others, and we are doing this in class by being kind to one another. 

All the parents sent in lots of Jars for 9G so there was enough for other classes to…

4 Dec

9G are getting Festive!

9G have been embracing the Christmas spirit in class this week!

The cheeky elf has come to join us - take a look at the pictures to see what mischief he has been up to!

We have also had a Christmas makeover, with a Post Office, Christmas Tree and we have also decorated outside of the…

4 Dec

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Chestnut!!

What a busy week we’ve had in Chestnut Class. We’ve been exploring lots of fun Christmas activities. During continuous provision we’ve been getting messy with our igloo snow scene made with flour and glitter, and have been using our fine motor skills to colour some beautiful Christmas pictures. We…

3 Dec

11R Team Work

Over the last week we have been undertaking some of our ASDAN accreditation for Working as Part of a Group.

We have set group roles, identified the tasks we are carrying out and looked at what makes good team work. 

We have started to make our Christmas Decorations and they are looking…

3 Dec

7A create Sadaqah Jars

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…

2 Dec

8G learn the charitable Islamic philosophy of Sadaqah.


Today the class had a religious themed lesson in our ‘The World About Me’ session as part of our Autumn term religious focus. We looked at the Islamic charitable philosophy of Sadaqah. 

 

This means being charitable and helping those in need. We had a whole class discussion about what…

1 Dec

11G Religious events.

As part of our study of religious events, we have been looking at the Islamic pillar of Sadaqah and examining their core value of kindness. 
 

To do this we first of all talked about all the different acts of kindness and as a class we discussed how we can show kindness to each other. Some of…

30 Nov

7A Week 12 Autumn Term- Hanukkah

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…

30 Nov

Learning in 11G

It has been a very busy week for 11G, practising the song that we are going to be singing for our part in the online Christmas production. We have also been practising signing to the song and when you eventually watch us we are sure that you will agree that 11G has worked hard with fabulous…

30 Nov

Families and stereotypes

Over the past couple of weeks we have been looking at jobs and particular genders considered to traditionally do the role of that job, we linked this into our PSHE lessons considering our family history and looking at the jobs our families have had over the years. We discussed if their jobs…

28 Nov

Maple Class Autumn 2 Week 4

Maple Class have been very busy this week. Learning more about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Following instructions to make a bear face from bread and chocolate spread, and, making and counting cakes to give to the bears. We used instruments to make quiet and loud noises, listening well to…

28 Nov

9R Autumn 2 Week 4

9R have worked hard in all their learning this week. Producing some fantastic writing based on the story The Iron Man, exploring different ways to use chalk to create a galaxy picture, and learning about nutrition values of different foods. We made 2D and 3D shapes out of playdough and created a…