14 Jan

11R Learn About Vesak

This morning 11R took part in a meditation session, focusing on Buddha with intense burning in the background. Pupils followed a guided relaxation video helping us to set stress and relax. This is a practice often carried out in the Buddhist religion. We ended the meditation with a feelings circle…

13 Jan

11R Look at Buddhism for World Religion Week

What a great start to Religion Week!

 

We started the day with a Padlet exercise saying what we know about the Buddhist religion and thinking about what we would like to learn.

 

We learned about the birth of Buddha and had a Kahoot! To follow. 

 

We also looked at a time of…

13 Jan

8R World Religion Week Christianity

This week in school we are celebrating World Religion Week. 8R have been asked to learn about Christianity so today we talked about different churches and the stained glass windows. We then spent the afternoon making our own stained glass windows. Some of us followed a template and some of us…

10 Jan

Food, Glorious Food - 7R

Welcome back and a Happy New Year!

7R have lots to look forward to this term. Our new theme is "Food, Glorious, Food". 

Communication, Language and Literacy

In our "Communication, Language and Literacy" lessons we will be exploring the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald…

16 Dec

Guiding Star

On Thursday 7G took part in our Christianity themed day. We watched the nativity story as told by the Tweenies and learnt about why we celebrate Christmas. 
 

Some of the children were able to say that we celebrate Christmas as that was when Jesus was born. We noticed in the story that a star…

13 Dec

Why do Christians celebrate Christmas?

During the month of December, 7R have been focusing on the Christian celebration, Christmas. We read the nativity story and wrote about it and then we thought about why Christians celebrate Christmas. We said it was because it is Jesus’ birthday and we give presents like the wise men give presents…

12 Dec

A baby boy was born one day, in a stable far away!

Oak Class learnt all about the Christmas nativity today. First of all, we enjoyed reading the story together on the carpet, taking it in turns to find the characters in our story to match our figures.
We were able to answer questions during different parts of the story; 
When Mary was told by…