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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Nursery Cultures Week
Here are some activities we have been doing in Nursery this week to celebrate Harvest.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Welly Wednesday - Exploring Capacity
We have had a wonderful time exploring capacity using the Autumn leaves that had fallen around our school grounds.
A Child's War - Homework
What a fantastic variety of topic homework we have had this term. Well done everyone!