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21 October 2022

Celebrating Cultures - Buddhism

The children began the week reading the Story of Buddha. They then created a comic page re-telling the story.

Next they found out about Buddhist symbols and what they represent. From this, they produced beautiful fact pages.

Linked to this, the children drew lotus flowers, representing the…

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21 October 2022

The Path to Enlightenment!

Check out some of the artwork created by Y5/6 during Culture Week! I am particularly proud of our Lotus Flowers. 

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Image of Cultures Week!
21 October 2022

Cultures Week!

What an incredible week we have had in Year 2 learning about Judaism.  The children have discovered many interesting aspects of the Jewish faith including where Jews go to pray, what the holy book is known as, what festivals they celebrate and the meaning of different symbols.  Our work looks…

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21 October 2022

Reception Cultures Week

Reception have been celebrating whole school Cultures Week.  We talked about Harvest Festival and how this is a time when the farmers are busy bringing in their crops.  We talked about how Harvest is a good time to share our food with friends and neighbours.

We talked about the story of The…

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21 October 2022

Y5 Buddhism


 

We have had a fabulous celebrating cultures week, with a focus on Buddhism. We started by learning about Siddartha Gautama, the sufferings he witnessed and The Four Noble Truths. He became Buddha: teacher. We looked at the symbols of Buddhism and their meanings. One of these is the Lotus…

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21 October 2022

Nursery Cultures Week

Here are some activities we have been doing in Nursery this week to celebrate Harvest. 

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Image of Culture Week: Buddhism
21 October 2022

Culture Week: Buddhism

This week we have enjoyed learning all about Buddhism festivals and places of worship as part of Culture Week.

We found out about the Buddhist celebration of Wesak, also known as Buddha Day. Wesak is the most important of the Buddhist festivals and is celebrated on the full moon in May. We…

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Image of Culture Week - Judaism
21 October 2022

Culture Week - Judaism

 

This week we are learning about Judaism. We have learnt lots of Interesting facts and have made some wonderful pieces. Yesterday we made a Mezuzah. A mezuzah is a piece of parchment, contained in a decorative case and inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah. We are going to…

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Image of Culture Week, Buddhism
21 October 2022

Culture Week, Buddhism

This week we have enjoyed learning all about Buddhism festivals and places of worship as part of culture week.

We found out about the Buddhist celebration of Wesak, also known as Buddha Day. Wesak is the most important of the Buddhist festivals and is celebrated on the full moon in May. We…

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Image of Culture week- Buddhism
20 October 2022

Culture week- Buddhism

This week has been culture week. We have had a great time learning all about Buddhism. We have focused our learning on Buddhism festivals and places of worship.

The children have enjoyed learning about Nirvana day. Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the…

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19 October 2022

Welly Wednesday - Exploring Capacity

We have had a wonderful time exploring capacity using the Autumn leaves that had fallen around our school grounds.

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17 October 2022

A Child's War - Homework

What a fantastic variety of topic homework we have had this term. Well done everyone!

 

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