Blog by Tag: Understanding the World

In Sycamore for International Woman’s Day we learnt about what International Woman’s Day is and why we celebrate it. We looked at how throughout history, women have been treated differently to men. We talked about how women was not allowed to vote and how in some job roles, men were paid more than…

Today is International Women’s Day! In 8A we have had a brilliant whole class discussion this morning. Some of the pupils asked why there isn’t an “international men’s day”. We looked at how, throughout history, women have been treated differently to men. We talked about how women didn’t used to…

10R had lots of fun researching and learning all about the Chinese New Year. We learned that 2022 is the year of the Tiger and that the learners in 10R were born either in the year of the dog or the year of the pig.

We watched the story of how the Emperor challenged the animals to race across…

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

Today we looked at Remembrance Day. We listened to Mrs Cobham read her Uncle Bert’s memories of being a soldier in WWII and listened to his thoughts and feelings about war. Mrs Cobham shared some photos of Uncle Bert’s time as a soldier and some photos of her family.

We listened to a beautiful…

This week in Chestnut Class we have been learning about Diwalli and the Festival of Light through Attention Autism, music, food, creating Diyas and expressive art. During Attention Autism Stage 1 we enjoyed looking at all the lights and coloured ribbons and during Stage 2 Miss Spear created a…

What a great couple of weeks in Willow class! We have been excited for Halloween all October and named it “spooky month” in class. Have a look at some of the exciting things we have been up to:

The children have enjoyed some spooky themed lessons and tying work into books such as funny bones…

We have had a football themed week this week.

We have worked independently using book creator on our iPads to make a presentation about a country of our choice from the Euros.

We had to find the flag, find the country on a map and highlight it and then find some interesting facts - who knew…

On Wednesday Willow class were lucky enough to go on heir first trip this year. We practiced our road safety skills walking to Astley Park and then enjoyed playing on the park. 
 

Please enjoy having a look through our photos ! 
We had so much fun and can’t wait for the next trip out !! 
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We have taken part in lots of fun activities this week as part of our learning.

We have looked at compass directions and Mrs Clarke sent us all an app to our iPads. We completed a worksheet in pairs following directions which was lots of fun.

We have played board games to help with turn…

On Friday we celebrated Italy day in school.

We had a non uniform day and some of 9R came dressed in red, white or green.

We tried Caprese Salad - mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and fresh basil, Michael noticed that it was green, white and red like the Italian flag. The classroom…

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…