This week Snowdrops have been looking at Diwali, we looked at how people celebrate the festival. We found that it is also known as the festival of light. We used resources in the classroom to make some beautiful, bright Rangoli pictures, and did some henna pictures too. We compared the Diwali festival to different festivals that we have been learning about and discussed the similarities and differences.
We loved looking at our beautiful flowers today and recreating the shapes from the petals and stems. There were some wonderful drawings and the children took their time to create these.
The Ethos team were invited to design decorations for a tree to be displayed in St Luke’s Church. The children decided that they wanted the tree to represent our school using our Christian values, the nativity and our school colours. They worked hard making the decorations. Today we walked to the Church to decorate our tree. Everyone St Luke’s is invited to go and see our creation during the Haywood light switch on celebrations on Read more
Year 6 have really enjoyed their music lessons for the last 8 weeks. They have been focusing on base, tone and slap. They have been working hard to produce a piece of music on the drums. The two songs they have been learning are ‘Up town funk you up and dance the night away’. Well done Year 6
Year 6 Rowan welcomed parents and family into our shared learning this morning. We were able to discuss our latest geography topic, Local Fieldwork, as well as the persuasive letters we wrote as part of our English unit. The letters and fieldwork, a traffic survey we conducted outside of school, highlighted the traffic and parking issues outside school. After a quick Kahoot quiz to recap our geography knowledge, the children and parents were tasked with Read more
In forest school this week, we have been on a hunt around the forest. We found lots of pictures from the story, The Good Samaritan. The children discussed the different parts of the story and then they worked together to put the pictures in the correct order. Once they had ordered the story, they chose part of the story they would like to create a picture to represent. All of the children collected mud and Read more
In PE, Year 6 have been looking at how they can create their own routines in gymnastics. They have had to think about skills that can flow after each other, how to balance and travel effectively, and complexity of moves. Sycamore worked extremely hard and were awarded best class in PE for their attitude and effort last week.
Year 6 Sycamore welcomed parents and family into our shared learning this morning. We were able to discuss our latest geography topic, Local Fieldwork, as well as the persuasive letters we wrote as part of our English unit. The letters and fieldwork, a traffic survey we conducted outside of school, highlighted the traffic and parking issues outside school. After a quick Kahoot quiz to recap our geography knowledge, the children and parents were tasked with Read more
This week Year 3 Birch enjoyed a very wet and windy forest school session exploring and making Autumn pictures with the natural resources. We also did some acrostic poems on our Christian Value which for this half term is friendship. The children then sequenced the story of The Good Samaritan and created some amazing mud paintings.
We talked about communities and what this meant. We discovered that we are all involved with a few communities so we decided to write down which communities we were involved in! There’s lots of variety from our school community to Thai Boxing!