PSHE & RSE: Blog items
Year 3- Discussing stereotypes!
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 1:45pm
In this lesson we looked at the book ‘Julian is a Mermaid’. In this book it looks at a young boy who wants to become a mermaid. The children discussed people’s stereotypes and used our Oracy skills to discuss and share ideas on different topics. We discussed how people may think ballet it only for boys and football is only for girls, but how this is not true and we must challenge these stereotypes. From this book we will create a play script.
Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 4:19pm
This half-term we are developing our resilience through Yoga to support and healthy lifestyle. Today, we worked through 3 poses; Eagle Pose, Dancer Pose and Warrior Pose. We talked about how to do these poses even if we struggled to balance and how to flow between them. As always, each session finishes with our gratitudes, showing out thanks for ourselves, our friends and for the world around us.
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 7:12pm
This week in school, it has been road safety week and Reception have been learning how to keep safe and be responsible when crossing the road.
They had a special visitor from Zoe our crossing patrol warden or, as we like to say, our lollypop lady!
We all learnt that we have to :
1- Find a safe place to cross.
2- Stay on the curb.
3- Look both ways.
4- Listen for the traffic.
5-Then walk sensibly across the road.
"Look both ways when you cross the road" Dennis
"Be sensible when crossing the road- walk don't run" RJ
"Always hold hands with an adult" Riley- Ella
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 4:53pm
This week some of the children have been lucky enough to meet 'Bailey' our school therapy dog. The children have enjoyed interacting with Bailey, playing games with her and even getting her to do some tricks. We look forward to spend more time with Bailey over the next few weeks.
"She sits when I give her a treat" Harry
"I gave Bailey a high five" Oakley
"She had to wait for her treat when we counted to ten" Kayden
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 10:19am
This week we have been looking at RESPONSIBILITY and how we can be responsible for ourselves and our actions and for other things including pets, younger siblings and PLANTS!
We signed a responsibility promise to take care of our plants and our first task was to fill our plant pots with the right soil. We then carefully planted our seed in the pot. Year 5 discussed that our responsibility would last much longer than just today, we would have to water and feed our seed as it grows, ensuring it gets the right amount of sunlight too. Eventually, we will have to repot our plant into the ground when it grows bigger!
Finally, we talked about how our responsibilities and our actions we undertook to care for our plant have consequences; being responsible means our plant will grow, not taking our responsibilities seriously will mean our plant will not survive!
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:40am
In this lesson we were introduced to the main beliefs of Hinduism and, as ever, we used our 5 finger recall facts!
We heard from Vandana, a 22 year-old Hindu who explained about how she works, lives and plays all while following Dharma – the duty or moral responsibility in Hinduism. We discussed how an equivalent to Dharma for us would be The Always Way and following the Boundary Always Promises.
Finally, we discussed Brahman, the formless and eternal entity in Hinduism and how this can be depicted in animal or human form. Finally, we designed our own deity to depict Brahman and how they/it might influence the world around us.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 11:14am
As the culminaton of our short journey looking at Christianity, we sketched, planned and finished a piece of topographical art linked to the Nativty. We used skills we have learnt in art and geography to create a nativity scene using a map of the Jerusalem and Bethlehem as a centre image.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 10:59am
Acorns have enjoyed learning about Christmas celebrations and the Nativity over the last few weeks.
Acorns have explored a variety of multisensory activities and experiences to develop their skills and understanding, including turn taking and social skills.
We have enjoyed a Christmas themed 'Bucket' to support our focus and concentration.
In art we have enjoyed recreating the Nativity scene and making Christmas ornaments to take home for our families.
We loved our singalong with our families during stay and play, and exploring signing during our singing.
A highlight was dancing during the Christmas party and a visit from Santa.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year.
Acorns team.
Nursery and the Hot Chocolate Station
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 1:11pm
Nursery had a wonderful time making Hot Chocolate at the tuff tray. They had to share and take turns, carefully scoop the ingreidents in to cups and talk to each other about what they were doing.
We then had a special treat of a real Hot Chocolate with cream and marshmallows!
Nursery Christmas Stay and Play
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 2:23pm
We had a super time this week when our Mums and Dads joined us for a special Christmas Stay and Play. Everyone made some Christmas Crafts and Iced a tasty Christmas biscuit. Stay and Play sessions are a great opportunity for our parents and carers to spend time with their children in the nursery environment and build realtionships with the nursery staff.
Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 10:21am
Acorns had a lovely morning when our families came for a stay and play session.
With lots of fun activities to engage in and a Christmas singalong to finish, we had a great morning and look forward to the next one.
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 11:25am
As part of our PSHE and Science curriculum, today we invited PCSO Debby Savage to talk to Year 6 about the effects and dangers of drugs and alcohol. The children were very sensible listening to what she had to say and asked some very good questions. We discussed smoking, vaping, alcohol and illegal/legal drugs and how they can affect our bodies.
Year 4 - Enterprise for the Christmas Fair
Date: 4th Dec 2024 @ 11:00am
This week, we looked at what enterprise means and made sweet cones and reindeer food to sell at our Christmas Fair.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 11:55am
In Maths, for no pen morning we used our place value knowledge to create a ‘Number Museum’. We were given a number which we had to display in as many ways as possible with Maths resources and other resources around the room. We also had to include a red herring for other groups to try and find when they were visiting our museum. In Reading into Writing, we used our computing skills to edit a WABOLL playscript. To end the morning, we used our oracy and active listening skills. We have been learning about active listening in our 'Skills for Life' lessons and assemblies. We had to ask our pair questions and make sure that we listened to their response and reasoning well enough to retell the rest of the class what we had learnt about each other.
Date: 25th Nov 2024 @ 9:11pm
Last week, we had a visit from the Fire Service who came and talked to us about all the ways they help in the community. They taught us what to do if we accidentally caught on fire and what to do if there was a fire in the house including how to get out safely. We were tasked with testing our smoke alarms and checking they all work to help keep us safe. We really enjoyed learning about how to keep safe.
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:56am
This week Acorns have been exploring night and day. We have enjoyed developing our understanding through songs and rhymes and visuals, exploring what we do at night and during the day. Some of us made choices about what we would like to do during the day.
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 8:29pm
Nursery joined the rest of the school and celebrated our differences by wearing odd socks. We read a story called "It's Ok To Be Different" by Todd Parr that looks at all the ways we can be different and how it is important to embrace our differences.
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 1:32pm
As part of our Remembrance service, Year 5 made and planted poppies in our remembrance garden. Each of the children wrote names of soldiers and we thought about their sacrifice when we planted them. The children also took part in our whole school act of remembrance.
Year 6 - Discrimination and Stereotyping
Date: 12th Nov 2024 @ 9:44am
As part of antibullying week, Year 6 have been learning about discrimination and antibullying and how this can manisfest in bullying. We took part in an 'Apprentic' style activity where we had to 'fire' someone based on the information we had learned about them.
Year 4 - Remembrance Day Celebration
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 3:51pm
Today we were part of our annual Remembrance Day Celebration. Last week, we used our art skills to make poppies out of clay and paint them with acrylic paint.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 10:44am
Acorns have been exploring Remembrance Day in class through video and art experiences. We planted our poppies this morning to remember those who have passed.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 10:23am
As part of our Remembrance service, Year 3 made and planted poppies in our remembrance garden. Each of the children wrote names of soldiers and we thought about their sacrifice when we planted them. The children also took part in our whole school service.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 4:50pm
Acorns have been exploring the theme of friendship this week and loved rounding our week off celebrating Odd Socks Day through a variety of multi-sensory activities including sock matching, pegging socks onto a washing line and counting odd socks.
Acorns looked fantastic wearing their odd socks. We had a great day.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 10:30am
This week we have learnt about anti bullying week through the theme 'choose respect.' Today we wore odd socks and designed our own odd socks to raise awareness about bullying.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 2:58pm
The children loved using some open ended resources to create their own rocks, They had to select the pieces they wanted and decide how they would attach them together. They also had to chat to their friends about the resources and share and take turns.
