This is week two of our visit to 🇨🇳 China! We enjoyed exploring noodles with chopsticks, making money wallets, creating Chinese flags, making dragon heads and then having a dragon dance around our school, Chinese writing and of course the food tasting! What a busy week!
Dear Hebburn Lakes Community,
Please see the attached Flyer – aimed at families and carers of Neurodiverse children and young people – which is detailing a free event offering practical support and strategies.
Event: A Focus on Autism: Practical Strategies to Support your Child
Date: Tuesday 15th November
Time: 9.30am – 2pm
Venue: The Wilson Centre, Stockton-On-Tees, TS21 1DD
Presenter: Anne-Marie Harrison, Ideas Afresh Education Ltd
Cost: Free of charge
Over the course of the day presentations will focus on:
I hope that anyone who attends finds it really useful.
Take care.
Ms Donkin
SENDCo
Hebburn Helps works closely with local schools and local authorities to ensure food is available for the most vulnerable in our community.
During these times of uncertainty, they need people to help them more than ever to continue to provide help where it is most needed.
Please help and donate or support our community in any way you can!
and let’s not forget
All donations to be brought into school via class teacher or main office by Monday 12th December.
Thank you!
Every moment counts!
As part of our Learning Means the a World theme, ‘Come Fly With me Asia’ we have been looking at China, it’s culture, traditions and what you might see if you visit. We looked at the Chinese Zodiac and the 12 animals that represented each year. The children in our class were born in either the year of the ‘dog’ or ‘rooster’. We went outdoors and raced against each other using the 12 animal masks to see who won each time. The children were great sports and had lots of fun. They have also been looking at Chinese writing and having a go! We also have a Chinese restaurant that the children are visiting regularly!
This week the children had a fantastic opportunity to take part in R.E workshops based around the Indian festival Lights ‘Diwali’. Diwali is the five-day Festival of Lights, celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains across the world. Diwali, which for some also coincides with harvest and New Year celebrations, is a festival of new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness. Kalpesh from K’z Dance Entertainment Ltd taught all the children some traditional Bollywood Indian dances and discussed with them the meaning of the Diwali festival and taught them the story of Rama and Sita. The children ended their workshops with a traditional Diwali dance using sticks (Dhandhiya). The children and staff thoroughly enjoyed themselves and displayed some fantastic moves.
We have been learning about the Harvest Festival, why we traditionally have this festival in the UK and why. We then looked at various foods including fruit and vegetables and where they come from. The children used their senses to describe how they looked, felt and smell. They then became artists and drew some of the foods! Later, we will be tasting some vegetable soup!
