Blog by Tag: RE

What a busy week we’ve had in Chestnut Class. We’ve been exploring lots of fun Christmas activities. During continuous provision we’ve been getting messy with our igloo snow scene made with flour and glitter, and have been using our fine motor skills to colour some beautiful Christmas pictures. We…

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…

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…

We have continued our work on Diwali at the beginning of our week in 7A this week.

On Monday we started to read a story called Dipal’s Diwali that follows a Hindu family throughout their Diwali celebrations. We all enjoyed learning more about Diwali and what is involved during the…

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…

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.…

Last Monday, Mr Darbyshire led our assembly and we learned about the traditional Hindu festival ‘The Holi Festival’. Some of us got to have a turn using powder paint to create colour clouds. 

Back in Oak class we explored colour through lots of activities. Miss Cross did an Attention…

Last Friday, Oak had their belated Rainbow Day and celebrated how we are all different. 

First we read the story ‘We Are All Different’. We took turns using mirrors to talk about how we all look and what we had that was the same or different. Oscar told us he had glasses and Tig said he…

Last week 7G celebrated Holi festival. This is a Hindu festival where the coming of spring is celebrated through lots of colourful activities. 

7G chose red as their colour to come into school in. All the children had an item of clothing on that was red. 
With Mr Murphy in the morning they all…

On Monday, Willow class learnt about the Hindu spring festival Holi. We chose blue as our class colour and some children chose to wear this colour to school for the day. Willow class loved the idea of the paint throwing celebrations and made their own powder paint art following an attention autism…