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Hello everyone, please enjoy this blog to help you learn about the religion of Islam. This blog has been researched and written by Hasan in Willow class. I hope you enjoy learning about this religion.- Miss Riley, Willow Class

What is Islam?

Islam is a religion practiced by Muslims.
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Last week Willow learnt about Islam, concentrating on how Islam teaches us to show kindness and to be charitable. We looked at their religious book, the Qur’an and what values Muslims are taught by Islam. 
We are very lucky in Willow class because one of our friends taught us about how he…

As the Jewish faith start the Festival of Hanukkah this week, 10R have been using their internet searching skills to independently research 3 facts about the festival. Pupils were asked to put these facts into a poster and then present their poster to the class using mirror screening. Pupils…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…