Blog by Tag: Understanding the World

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…

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…

This month Willow class has been learning all about Ramadan and how Muslims practice their faith during this time. We also took part in the Ramadan kindness challenge of daily activities to spread kindness and happiness. 
On Thursday it was Eid so the children learnt all about what Eid is as a…

This week we’ve had Herbology which is all about plants and flowers with Professor Clarke. We all planted sunflower seeds. We are going to look after them by watering and letting them have plenty of sunlight, I wonder who’s will be the tallest.

In language and communication we have been…

Today Willow class learnt about racism and equality- treating all people the same. 

Willow class discussed what it means to be racist and everyone knew this was a bad choice. We talked about how it would make us feel to be treated differently to everyone else. Willow class said treating someone…