10 Mar

11G celebrate Holi

This week we have celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi - also known as The Festival of Colours. Together the class worked in groups to make their own colourful Holi pictures, using various painting methods. Some of the class also took part in a colour run outside, wearing white t-shirts and…

10 Mar

What a fun week in 8A!

What great fun 8A have had this week. We have celebrated Holi as a whole school and had an amazing celebration on Wednesday afternoon. We had bags of different coloured powder paints which we threw into the air. Lots of the staff and pupils were covered in powder paint and looked amazing. Even the…

10 Mar

9A Holi Celebrations

This Wednesday afternoon, 9A looked at what is Holi and why people all over the world celebrate it. 

We learnt that it marks the beginning of spring. And during Holi, people celebrate the story of Prahlad. 

Prahlad’s father was a cruel king that wanted everyone to worship him, but Prahlad…

10 Mar

Sycamore Class Celebrate Holi!

Sycamore Class absolutely loved celebrating Holi on Wednesday!

 

 

 

9 Mar

Holi Celebrations in Chestnut Class

Good afternoon,

Today the Chestnut pupils and staff immersed themselves in activities to celebrate Holi. Holi also known as the Festival of Colours, Festival of Spring, and Festival of Love, is one of the most popular and significant festivals in Hinduism.

The pupils were provided with a…

8 Mar

Fantastic Fun in Oak Class

What a fun packed week we’ve had in Oak class this week. We have enjoyed playing with some Paw Patrol toys as well as practicing our first aid skills on the dolls in our continuous provision areas. We’ve engaged really well in our Attention Autism sessions and love seeing what’s in the box. We…

8 Mar

11R Learn about Holi

Today we learned the story of Holi, the Hindu colour festival. We learned the meaning of different colours and with our coloured glasses we mixed coloured powder. Pupils enjoyed learning about this different culture. 
 

in English we looked at Holi facts and opinions. Pupils enjoyed marking…

8 Mar

Astley Park celebrate Holi

Astley Park School had a fantastic time on Wednesday 8th March as we celebrated the Hindu festival of Colour known as Holi.  Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates Spring, Love and new life. Holi is a colour festival, with dancing, singing and throwing powder paint and coloured water. It marks…

28 Jan

10G Celebrate Chinese New Year (plus the rest of Spring term Week 4)

Hello everyone, I have to say that this week has just been “one of those weeks”. You know the ones where everything seems to go to pot or go wrong?! But hey ho, we have made it to the end in one piece!

On Monday morning, we learnt one of our signs of the week was “Year of the Rabbit”, as it…

27 Jan

Sycamore celebrates Chinese New Year

What a very exciting day! Sycamore enjoyed an Attention Autism session, we all sat together and helped Miss Molloy as she began to create a rabbit with red and orange paint it was very messy and fun! We then talked about why Miss Molloy made a rabbit and we found out that the Chinese New Year is…

26 Jan

Willow learn about Sikhism for World Religion Week!

Last week was World Religion Week in school and Willow class got to learn about Sikhism alongside their daily learning and curriculum activities. 

On Monday, we explored different foods popular in the Sikhism culture, using our senses. 

On Wednesday we cooked special recipes that are popular…

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!