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Today we looked at challenging gender stereotypes. We first of all read a story about Charlie the firefighter and found out that she was a girl even though we at first thought that she would be a boy. We then looked at different jobs using a colourful semantics  resource on the book creator app on…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed a fun-filled day learning about Diwali.

Sycamore have been learning different facts about Diwali. We found out that:

• Diwali is a very important festival celebrated by many people around the world.
• Diwali is celebrated by Hindu’s but can be celebrated by…

What another lovely week we have had in Oak Class looking at The little Mermaid. We have been very lucky that this week we have had two birthdays, Ellie and Noah’s. We’d all like to thank parents for the donations of sweets and cake which we all loved. 

• In our My Creativity lessons we…

Today Sycamore have enjoyed learning about Children in Need and celebrating through lots of activities. 

We learned that: 

• Children in Need is used to help to raise money for children in need. 
• Children in need are children not as lucky as us. We said it can be children who don’t…

On Monday morning we have been working hard on our reading skills with Miss Aindow. Later in the morning we have been learning about healthy and unhealthy foods. We had to use pictures of different foods to make a healthy lunch box. We cut out the different pictures and stuck them down. It was…

We have had a busy week of celebrating different events this week in 9G. 
 

The week started looking at what Remembrance is, why we wear poppies and how we remember. Miss Hendy did an attention autism, where we watched her create some crosses using black sand, and then we took turns to…

This week as part of our Celebrations topic we have been learning about Diwali. We learnt that Hindus celebrate with lamps, prayers, gifts and fireworks on the third day of Diwali. We applied our learning about dancing with props last week to create a partner dance to show a fireworks display.…

Sycamore have enjoyed a day of activities themed around ‘Remembrance Day’. 

This morning we enjoyed a circle time and we shared our ideas and what we remember about Remembrance Day. We then had our 2 minutes silence to remember all the soldiers who have fought in wars to help keep us…

We have had a great first week back after half term. 

There has been lots of firework and bonfire themed fun this week. 

In our My Thinking and Problem Solving sessions we have been working on recognising objects up to 10 in different arrangements, adding 1 digit numbers together using…

On Thursday, Sycamore had fun in class celebrating bonfire night with crafts and exploring some popular traditions. 

First we collected sticks on a regulation walk, exploring outside, that we used later in the afternoon to help Miss Cross build our own ‘fire’. 

We explored…

This week we have been learning all about Bonfire night. We had our very own pretend Bonfire night where we put on our gloves and hats, waved pretend sparklers and toasted our marshmallows and dipped them in chocolate. We know that fire is hot and that we need to keep safe with our adults. We…

We have had the most brilliant week in 9G! 
 

Everyone has worked so hard and tired activities they wouldn’t normally do, embracing the Halloween spirit! 
 

We have collected eyeballs from pumpkins full of jelly, made witches spells in the kitchen, palates lots of group games and even…