Blog by Tag: Equality

Today we all came in different coloured clothes for Rainbow Day but we didn’t really understand why. We had a discussion about LGBT History Month and why it is important that we celebrate Rainbow Day. We learnt what LGBT stands for and what the words mean. We then played a circle time game,…

To celebrate rainbow day chestnut class dressed in brightly coloured clothes and collages pictures of rainbows. We also had lots of brightly coloured sensory activities to explore.

As the students had come dressed in colourful clothes to celebrate Rainbow Day, we looked at what it is to be the same  but different. Students thought about how we are all different; including things like being interested in different hobbies, having different family members, speaking in…

Last week Oak Class enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year.

We learnt that there are different animals to celebrate the different years and this year, is the year of the Rat. We found out that dragons are used in the parades and do lots of dancing. Miss Woods even told us what animal we…

7G had a great week learning about Sikhism. 
 

We made our own Sikh flags for a Gurdwara using yellow and blue. Before this Miss Hendy did an attention autism using blue and yellow items and showed us how to make the flag. 
 

We then made chapattis to eat in the food tech room. Everyone…

Today 7R have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We spent the morning reading a story that taught us about the animals that the years are named after. We used masks to act out the story once we had listened to it and practiced playing parts by thinking of something the different animals…

This week Beech have been exploring Chinese New Year (the year of the rat) we have played, made and explored a range of different things which have helped us learn about the celebration which has been lots of fun.  We made dragons, explored noodles in the role play kitchen and had a little…

This week chestnut class have explored lots of activities themed around Chinese New Year, we enjoyed the Chinese takeaway tray, using chop sticks to pick up noodles and then tried writing Chinese numbers in sensory materials using chop sticks, were a few of our favourite activities. Today we…

Last week in celebration of World Religion Week, Oak got busy learning about Judaism ✡️.

On Monday, Miss Curry read ‘The Creation Story’ in our class assembly and we all said what we could see in the pictures. 

On Tuesday, we learnt that Jewish people worship God in a Synagogue, like…

The box has arrived! 
 

11R have made a great start to sorting out your generous donations so far! 
 

Thank you very much if you have sent items in. Please keep the donations coming!

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9G were all very busy last week learning all about the religion ‘Islam’. We learnt all about the Islam Creation Story, got to look at pictures of different areas of a mosque, made prayer mats, made mosaics, practised yoga and made chicken curry. We also got to take turns using a prayer mat to pray…

On Thursday morning, 8G continued their work on Christianity for World Religion Week.

We read a sensory story all about Jesus walking on water.

Jesus had gone up to the mountains to pray alone, while his friends (the disciples) went on a boat and sailed out to sea.

It started to rain-…