Blog by Tag: RE

Beech class have enjoyed exploring Islam this week with a range of different fun activities we started with  Attention Autism where we explored the star and crescent moon of Islam with flour we then had star and crescent moon painting, role play using dressing up and we even got to look at the…

Today year 11 learnt that each colour of the Buddhism Prayer flags are to support Buddhist in living a better life, a life without anger, jealousy, ignorance, delusion and pride. We then made our own flags.

This afternoon we looked at the four sights that the Buddha saw which lead him to…

Our Buddhism artefact table is becoming increasingly busy now. 

Pupils took part in a hide and seek information activity learning different information teaching them the significance of prayer beads within the Buddhist faith.

We then used our maths skills to count the correct…

Today 8R have been learning about Harvest Festival during World Religion Week. Mrs Clarke hid lots of food around the class and we had to find it and build our own Harvest Basket. Some of us got to taste different foods and say what we thought of them. Some of us worked on our fine motor skills…

 This week for World Religion week 10G are studying Hinduism. Today we  enjoyed a very interesting and informative morning at a visit to the Gujurat  Hindu Society and Temple in Preston.

The students were shown around the Temple so that they were able to look at all the different Gods and…

This week is Religion week at Astley Park School.

8G are learning all about Christianity. Yesterday we spoke about what Christians believe and the rules that they follow. We talked about why the symbol of a Cross is important and where Christians go to pray.

We then made amazing pictures…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…