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

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…

27 Nov

Ourselves

This week in Beech class we have been learning about ourselves. We have been practicing sharing and playing with our friends. Supported by our dolly role play we explored about self care by washing the babies, brushing hair and feeding them. We have explored lots of different foods and role played…

21 Nov

Oak Class: Challenging Gender Stereotypes

This week everyone in school has been looking at challenging gender stereotypes. In Oak class we have been reading a book called ‘The Daddy Book’, a book which celebrates different kinds of dads and highlights the many reasons they are so special. We all really enjoyed talking about our dads And…

20 Nov

Sycamore: Challenging Gender Stereotypes

Today Sycamore have been learning about gender stereotypes.

First we spoke about what a stereotype is - we learned that a stereotype is an idea or view that someone believes that might not be true.

We then enjoyed a carpet time activity watching Miss Cross make outlines of a boy and a girl.…

20 Nov

11R challenge gender stereotypes

This week in 11R we have been learning all about gender stereotyping. We started off by watching a video where we all had to share our thoughts on how people looked and what opinions we formed based on that. Everyone contributed maturely towards the discussion and listened respectfully to each…

20 Nov

Willow Class challenges gender stereotypes

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…

20 Nov

8R challenge gender stereotypes

 

This week 8R have been doing some super work on gender stereotyping and how everybody can be different and how we can make sure we talk to people in the best way.

We did some work in small groups and looked at the different ways people can be different. We talked about how our families,…

20 Nov

10G Challenge Stereotypes

10G have worked really hard to understand what gender stereotypes means. We talked about what jobs boys have and what jobs girls have. Some of us said that girls are nurses and boys are builders. Then we had a look at some pictures and saw that both men and woman can be nurses and builders. We did…

20 Nov

Rowan - Dogs don’t do ballet

On Wednesday in Rowan class we listened to the story ‘dogs don’t do ballet’. A lovely story about a dog who wants to become a ballerina but everyone keeps says dog don’t do ballet. But, we discovered in our story that dogs do ballet. 

We discussed what jobs we would like to do when we are…

20 Nov

Wheeled Toys

This week Beech class have begun our topic- Toys. We have explored wheeled toys. Throughout the week we have made wheeled tracks, had our own Beech class car wash and explored the rhyme 'Wheels on the bus'. While exploring all of our lovely activities we have been focusing on being kind to our…

20 Nov

‘Car crazy!’ in Chestnut Class

Chestnut Class’s theme this week was all about ‘Diwali and toys’. We have worked so hard again challenging ourselves learning numbers by singing songs. Developing our writing skills through mark making. Looking at different shapes and sorting big / little cars or putting cars on, under or next…