Blog by Tag: Communication Language and Literacy

Wow, Willow class have really impressed all their class teachers this term with how well everyone has adapted to changes! 
Children in school have been settling back into lessons and following our timetables, especially enjoying our daily teams calls with friends learning from home! The children…

8R have had a super busy week this week doing lots of amazing work.

We started off the week by doing some super work on time in our maths. We have all been looking at the important times of our day and making sure we can tell the time at these. Everybody worked super hard and have been using…

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…

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…

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…

Today we looked at challenging gender stereotypes. We first of all read a story about Charlie the firefighter and found out that she was a girl even though we at first thought that she would be a boy. We then looked at different jobs using a colourful semantics  resource on the book creator app on…

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…

Prepare to be scared when you see these spooky pictures of Willow class!

Willow Class worked so hard this week to create some amazing Halloween decorations! 
Everyone has been super brainy, working with class adults to complete assessments so we can try some fun new work after half term! We…

Today Willow Class took part in Hello Yellow day, raising money to support young people’s mental health on World Mental Health Day.

We have learnt all about the zones of regulation this term. We been working hard to recognise our own emotions and to understand how our brain and bodies feel when…

What a week in willow class!

This was our last week in our mini-class-bubbles! We spent lots of time playing turntaking friends with our mini-bubble and chatting about how excited we are to be a big class bubble next week. 

We tried lots of different bubble based activities, from bubble…

This week we have had a busy week settling into our full days. We have been doing some fun sessions of 'what's in the box', we got very excited and engaged well, it was lovely to see. We enjoyed choosing  songs, our favourite this week  was, 'if your happy and you know it'. Some of us have been…

What a week for Willow Class!

Both bubble A and bubble B were so excited to finally have a go on the new climbing frame! 
We loved helping each other and taking turns on the different areas of the climbing frame. We have all done such fantastic sharing in our bubbles, trying out new games and…