Blog by Tag: Equality

This week in Beech class we were focusing on Goldilocks and the three bears. Our attention autism sessions have been based all around bears and their homes. On Monday we attempted to create a glitter mandala for Buddha day. 

In our mornings have been focussed on preferred regulation choices…

On Monday, all pupils celebrated Wesak (Buddha Day). The Buddhist festival celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. Pupils explored the story of Buddha in ways appropriate to their pathway and worked hard creating mandalas which were entered into the APS Mandala Contest, the…

Today 10R made some beautiful cards for Wesak. 
We followed instructions to make the card as part of our celebration of Buddha day.

The class coloured in some Mandala and we talked about how we are all unique as our lotus flowers and Mandala are unique.

we learned that Wesak celebrates the…

This week we have been celebrating Eid al-Fitr across school.

Eid al-Fitr (which means ‘festival to break the fast’) marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting. Ramadan teaches self-discipline, self-control, sacrifice and empathy.

Pupils have celebrated by participating in a…

Rowan Class have enjoyed celebrating Eid this week, and exploring the Muslim religion.

We read stories about Eid, and discussed other religions and their special days/celebrations.

We decorated some traditional lanterns, and designed some lovely Mehndi patterns. In cooking we made some…

7P have had an amazing couple of weeks
 

Last week we got back into the swing of things after residential, working on our team work skills during parachute games, walking Coco and we also did some circus yoga! 
 

This last week 7P have started their week by half of the group going on a…

This term Willow class are learning all about food and how to prepare it in our “The world about me” lessons.

This week we tied this in with our Eid celebrations by looking at different foods Muslim families eat to celebrate Eid. We had a look as a class at lots of different types of foods and…

We had a very special visitor on Friday! Amy Troner attended school as a Jewish faith leader and delivered multiple engaging workshops for our pupils. Amy was accompanied by Mr. Maher (school governor) for the morning sessions. Amy shared her main beliefs and explained all about Jewish festivals,…

What a busy first week back after Easter. 

Everyone has been busy over the break and we have loved hearing all about what they have been up to.

This week in 9G we have been exploring The Circus.

We listened to a lovely sensory story, it had elephants, jugglers,clowns and a Ringmaster.…

7P are having a wonderful start to residential. Our group is called Dodd group and our instructor is Lou. We are having so much fun! Everyone has settled in really well. 

Last night we enjoyed a session in the Calvert swimming pool. We loved the lights and music! We had a chill in the games…

Last week Chestnut Class helped to promote awareness of World Epilepsy Day by attending school wearing purple. In 2008, eight-year-old Cassidy Megan from Canada decided she wanted to help raise awareness for people with epilepsy and to make sure no one affected feels alone. She named her idea…

Today 8A have been learning about epilepsy. We learnt what tonic/clinic seizures, absence seizures and focal seizures look like and talked about how we can help people who are experiencing seizures. We took part in a short first aid session where we learnt how we can keep somebody safe if they…