Blog by Tag: Equality

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

This week in Chestnut Class we have been learning about Diwalli and the Festival of Light through Attention Autism, music, food, creating Diyas and expressive art. During Attention Autism Stage 1 we enjoyed looking at all the lights and coloured ribbons and during Stage 2 Miss Spear created a…

WOW! It's only our first week back after half term and what a busy week we've had.

This week we have been to All Seasons Leisure Centre for our P.E session. This half term we are learning basketball skills. We thoroughly enjoyed our session and had lots of fun playing games, such as 'Monster…

7P have settled in very well after their half term holidays. It was great to talk about what they had all been up to and look at pictures too!

This week 7P have been learning about Diwali through My Thinking and Problem Solving and My Communication. Learners in 7P have shown that they can…

Beech class has been looking at all of the colours for Diwali, we had a lovely sensory tray with lots of colourful sand and glitter. We made a glittery candle to celebrate the festival of light, and we had some Indian music and dancing on the screen to watch too. 
For Bonfire night we melted…

Today 11G found out lots of new information about Diwali.
We looked at power points and had fun using the internet to help us find the answers to Miss Robertson question sheet.  We looked at rangoli patterns and made some of our own…..great fun. 

Elephants are an important symbol in…

Today in Willow class we were learning all about Divali! We looked at what Divali actually means- what is it and how is it celebrated? The children enjoyed talking about the special celebration and ways it is celebrated using special food, music, decorations and lights. Some of the children drew…

Today in Maple Class we have been celebrating Diwali. 

This morning Miss Howarth did a Diwali themed attention autism. In the bucket were a few light up objects to celebrate the festival of light and an Indian doll. 
For stage 2 Miss Howarth used different coloured rice and made a rangoli…

In October Willow Class learnt about why we have black history month, celebrating the achievements of black men and women. We have had lots of good conversation about wrong it would be to be be treated differently for how you look or where you come from with learners relating this to our own class…

7A have had a very busy week learning all about Diwali. 
The children have been amazing this week asking lots of questions and showing lots of interest learning about Diwali ‘the festival of light’ . 
We have read the story or Rama and Sita and answered questions to show our understanding of…

Today we are celebrating Diwali in school. 8A thought about what we had learnt last year about Diwali as part of our Year 7 “celebrations” theme. We could remember that Hindus celebrate Diwali and that they get presents at Diwali. Mrs Crouch reminded us that Diwali was the festival of light and we…

On Thursday 4th November we will be celebrating Diwali throughout school. 
In our classes we will be taking part in a variety of different activities throughout the day to celebrate.