26 Jan

Chinese New Year in Rowan Class

We had lots of fun celebrating Chinese New Year in Rowan Class, this year is the year of the rabbit.

We made some great Chinese lanterns, practiced Dragon dancing, tasted noodles and spring rolls and made the sign for "rabbit".

Kung Hei Fat Choy all!

 

26 Jan

Beech Class Celebrate Chinese New Year

On Monday, Beech Class celebrated Chinese New Year. We explored a tuff tray filled with Chinese food and pictures, listened to some Chinese music, and made our very own Chinese dragons. We all enjoyed playing with the wiggly noodles using the chopsticks!! In our AA session some of us were lucky…

25 Jan

Chinese New Year in 10R!

On Monday we looked at Chinese New Year in 10R! We had lots of fun learning about the story of the Jade Emperor and the animals that make up the Chinese zodiac, and we found that in our class we had a mixture of rats and pigs in our class due to the 07/08 birth years. We all had a try of a fortune…

20 Jan

10G World Religion Week 2023

Wow this week has gone by in the blink of an eye and we are now half way through this half term already!

It has been World Religion Week in school this week so we have been taking part in different activities that are Jewish themed. On Friday last week we were very lucky to have Amy come into…

20 Jan

Buddhism Week in 11G

This week in school has been World Religion Week 11 G have been learning about Buddhism. We learnt who Buddha is and how their religion helps Buddhists with their feelings and emotions. 

In our Monday morning café we tried some different foods for breakfast,we had seeded bread for our toast,…

20 Jan

Governor’s Class visit to Maple

I visited Maple Class on 17th January as part of the Governor- Class partnership and Religious Education Week. I spent time with the wonderful learners and hard working staff in Maple as they explored the Islamic Faith. Myself,  Mrs Smith and a small group of learners made delicious sweets…

20 Jan

RE Week in Maple Class

Maple Class have had a fantastic week exploring the Islamic Faith through Attention Autism, dress up, creative work, cooking and music. We have tasted traditional foods and made sweets eaten at Eid using our fabulous communication skills to make requests, follow instructions and take turns. We…

20 Jan

World religion week in Beech Class

Beech class have been super busy this week!

Continuing our “Very Hungry Caterpillar topic”, we have practiced our chopping skills to make cucumber and tomato caterpillars and made some caterpillar hats!

For world religion week we have been exploring Christianity. We enjoyed preparing and…

19 Jan

Rowan Class explore Islam

For World Religion Week Rowan Class have been exploring Islam.

We have looked at different Mosques and what is inside them. We listened to call to prayer and tasted dates.

Some of us practiced Mehndi patterns and made a crescent moon and star mobile.

We all really enjoyed the jigsaws and…

18 Jan

Gujarat Hindu Temple visit

8P visited the Hindu temple this morning with our friends from 7P. 
Our host showed us each shrine in the temple, telling stories about each God  that was represented in each shrine. We also had the opportunity to explore some of the artwork in the temple and Chris found an interesting new…

18 Jan

10R look at Judaism as part of World Religion Week

As religious Studies is part of our collapsed options choices, 10R have had lots of fun looking at Judaism this week as part of World Religion Week.  We learnt about the story of Passover; when Moses led the Jewish slaves to freedom from the Egyptians. We looked at how families celebrate this…

16 Jan

World Religion Week in Oak Class

This week we have focused our learning around the Islamic faith as part of our World Religion celebrations!

On Monday, our topic was introduced through attention autism, we enjoyed dressing up during stage 3 in traditional clothes. We also explored frozen fruit as a media for painting, we chose…