Blog by Tag: The World About Me

Today in Willow class we were learning all about Divali! We looked at what Divali actually means- what is it and how is it celebrated? The children enjoyed talking about the special celebration and ways it is celebrated using special food, music, decorations and lights. Some of the children drew…

In October Willow Class learnt about why we have black history month, celebrating the achievements of black men and women. We have had lots of good conversation about wrong it would be to be be treated differently for how you look or where you come from with learners relating this to our own class…

Today we are celebrating Diwali in school. 8A thought about what we had learnt last year about Diwali as part of our Year 7 “celebrations” theme. We could remember that Hindus celebrate Diwali and that they get presents at Diwali. Mrs Crouch reminded us that Diwali was the festival of light and we…

7P have celebrated Black History Month on the last week in class. 

We listened to a book called M for Melanin, where each letter of the book spoke about something to proud of about yourself and your skin colour. We learnt some Black History through this.

We then used mirrors and iPads to…

Hello Everyone!
 

Last week was our first week in Sycamore Class! We have all had an amazing week, it has been so lovely to see all of our friends again after a wonderful summer break. We have done lots of different activities to get to know our new classmates and our new teachers! 
 

We…

This half term Rowan class have been learning all about the Vikings.  

Vikings lived in a long, narrow building called a longhouse. Most had timber frames and thatched roofs. Viking jewellery was beautifully made, using materials ranging from gold to simple animal bones. Both men and women…

In Sycamore this week we have scored goals, scored tries, collected stamps whilst orienteering, danced, ran, walked, used the different equipment and most importantly we have had so much fun! 

We have worked on our skills, learnt new skills, designed our sports weeks rules together and…

7A have really enjoyed Italy Day. We all remembered to wear colours from the Italian flag and enjoyed Italy themed sensory play and learning all about the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Mrs Crouch told us some interesting facts about the Leaning Tower of Pisa and then we worked in teams to try and create…

9G have had a fabulous Italy day for Modern Foreign Languages. 

9G started the morning by coming in their green, white and red clothes. We then listened to a story about a girl called Angelina who loved pizza and went to visit the leaning tower of Pisa. 
 

We then listened to some Italian…

Rowan have had a super busy week this week.....

On Mon we did our Numicon learning in which everyone worked super hard! Then in the afternoon we had PE where we had our very own Euro 2020 football match. It was Australia verses Brazil and it was a very exciting and tense game with a lot of…

We have had a wonderful day in Sycamore exploring Italy 

It was lovely to see everyone wearing red, green or white. 

This morning we have been learning about Leonardo da Vinci. We found out that Leonardo da Vinci lives in Italy and is famous because of his artwork. We learned that…

Today in Willow class we have been learning about The Mona Lisa . 
 

We learned lots of interesting facts about where the painting came from, what events have happened surrounding the Mona Lisa and practised lots of fun Italian words. 
 

The children listened really well and even had a go…