A fabulous first week back! We have been looking at China in our Learning Means The World theme ‘Come fly with me Asia’. We have been looking at Chinese artefacts, writing our names in Chinese and we even made a Chinese restaurant in our home corner! We also talked about Remembrance Sunday and made poppies, our tree is looking amazing!
As it is coming to the end of our school year we have celebrated our hard work and achievements by taking part in a fantastic fun day. We enjoyed bowling, climbing, drawing, dancing, watching stunts, flight school and even pushing potatoes.
To celebrate ‘School Diversity Week’, we did lots of different activities and created some lovely posters and bunting.
We have enjoyed celebrating School Diversity Week this week in Nursery. The children loved using the colours of the pride flag to decorate their own bunting flags.
We also read the story ‘and tango makes three’ by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. It’s a lovely story about a family of penguins at Central Park Zoo in New York City. Two male penguins, Roy and Silo, really want their own family – and with a little help from the zoo keeper, Mr Gramzay, their dreams come true and along comes Tango!
We talked about our own families and how they’re all different. The children also enjoyed drawing their families after reading the story.
This week as part of Diversity week we have been looking at the many variations of ‘Family’. We decided that a family show love, support and care for each other and we looked at all the different types of family and how they are the same as ours and how they are different . We concluded that no matter their differences a ‘Family’ is important to our mental well being.
This week is School Diversity Week. In Reception we have been celebrating our differences. We drew rainbow people, created rainbow bunting and also drew around our friends outside and made them into rainbows with chalk.
We had a super ‘Career’s Day’ on Wednesday! We spent the day learning about all the different professions and jobs people do. During the morning, we learnt about TV and video marketing and then we tried on some NHS scrubs. In afternoon, we spoke to a few people about the jobs they do. Later on, we had a visit from Tracey, an author, who wrote a book called Frogsby. During the session, we listened to how the inspiration of the story came about and listened to the story being read. Then, we produced our own book characters. We had an awesome day!
This morning School Council joined in with the assembly. In their rolls as OPAL ambassadors they talked about all of the positive and amazing things they have seen or been involved in since OPAL started. They also reminded their friends how we need to use the equipment properly. They were amazing!
As part of our whole school Careers Day, nursery had some special visitors yesterday. We had a visit from a children’s occupational therapist, Alison, who told us about how she helps children develop independence.
We were also visited by a local author, Lauren Taylor (nee Davis), who shared her books ‘The Scoliosaurus’ and ‘The Rainbow Snail’ We loved the stories and hearing about the inspiration behind them. Lauren left us with some lovely craft activities too – a personalised banner including some of her characters and some snails for us to design our own shells. We had great fun getting creative!
We enjoyed role play activities, playing games and listening to stories about different jobs too.
This week Year 2 have started their new Learning Means the World theme, Going Wild!
To start our science based theme we collected photographs of our pets. We used guidance from the RSPCA to create posters of ‘How to looks after pets’.
The children showed just how knowledgeable and caring they are, and produced brilliant, eye-catching posters, full of good advice for pet owners.
