Blog by Tag: Understanding the World

Last Monday, Willlow class went on a trip to the Mosque. We enjoyed looking in the Mosque, listening to a call to prayer and learning about why Muslims go to Mosque. We learned some new words and looked at Arabic letters. We also learned lots of things about Muslim families as we have been…

Astley Park School have a had a very colourful week as they explore rainbows, families and diversity as part of Rainbow Week celebrations! 

Rainbow week is a joyful and colourful display of love, unity, and respect, with lots of activities to promote inclusivity, opportunities to educate, and…

9A enjoyed having Owen R’s mum and Teddy’s mum join us this week for our SMSC lesson on Buddha Day! 
 

We enjoyed learning about the Buddha and Buddhism by: 

- watching the Buddha’s story 

- learning about the Buddha, Buddhism and how Buddha Day is celebrated around the world 

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We have today celebrated Buddha’s birthday across school. Classes have participated in craft activities, research, sequencing, sentence creation and some have accessed meditation. 

Each class submitted lotus flower craft competition entries. The standard was high, many prizes were given! Rowan…

Sycamore have been learning all about adults who we can trust. The children used a combination of their own family photos,  strangers that we know are safe e.g doctors and police and strangers that are not safe to categorise in the circle of trust . 
Mrs Banks worked with this group and started…

In sycamore today with Mrs Crouch the children learned all about baptism . As a class we talked about what a baptism is and what it means . Mrs Crouch showed the children how to baptise a baby , then all of the children had a go at being the Vicor to baptise the baby. 
The children used ‘holy…

Today we had a visit from a Buddhist Monk, Kelsang Pagpa. All Buddhist monks are named Kelsang which means ‘fortunate one’ and his name Pagpa means ‘realised ultimate truth’.

He wore orange robes which are meant to symbolize simplicity and detachment of materialism.

He spoke to us about how…

9A has had a fantastic time celebrating the King’s Coronation this week! 
 

We enjoyed a range of activities in the hall, as well as in class activities, including: 

- compass work involving key words linked to the Coronation (as part of our My Thinking and Problem Solving learning) 

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This week 7A had some special visitors. Fudge, Dec and Beccaaaaaa the chicks. Sycamore have been working on life cycles and from incubator to hatching.
Sycamore class bought the chicks to visit. We had to be extremely quiet as they were only 7 days old.
Mrs Banks took them out of the cage and…

Good afternoon all,

Well it’s been another busy and action packed two weeks. Despite the shortened weeks the due to the bank holidays the Chestnut pupils have been very, very busy. Last week we celebrated Earth Day by looking at the Creation story which was adapted into a sensory experience for…

Maple class have had a smashing time celebrating the King's Coronation.  
This week we have made crown biscuits in Food Tech, explored being the King during our sensory story, learned some key vocabulary during our AA sessions and decorated crowns. Thank you to everyone involved in ensuring our…

This week school have been celebrating Earth Day 2023. Miss Bentham  spoke to us about looking after the environment. She showed us a video of The Ocean Clean Up campaign We were really surprised to see what was collected out at sea. Some of the pupils commented on how lazy people were. We then…