Month: July 2021

Red Class Summer Party

We had so much fun at our party today! In the morning, we made hats, look how fancy we are.

We started our party with a cooling ice lolly and a film.

Then, we played the chocolate game. We had to wiggle our faces to move the chocolate down to our mouths. No hands! We had quite sticky faces.

After that, we played musical statues.

Then, we had some party food, yum!

We finished with a game of Simon Says. Thank you for being such fantastic party people Red Class!

Culture Week in Purple Class

This week we have enjoyed celebrating our amazing and diverse community. It has been such an exciting and busy week for everyone involved. Each class spent the week finding out about a different country, including food, art, music and physical geography.

Purple class enjoyed learning all about the country Somalia!

Somalia Flag | Buy Flag of Somalia | The Flag Shop
We looked at different flags from around the world and talked about why flags are important. We talked about the children’s own heritage (family history) and made different flags to represent some of the different countries from around the world.

Food tasting was a fun way to introduce the country Somalia:

We learnt how to weave:

We looked at Somalian fabric and designed our own vibrant patterns:

A huge thank you to Rohan’s mum who visited the Reception classes to share a story with us that was read to her when she was a little girl! You can watch a version of this story below.

On Friday children had the opportunity to dress in national dress, clothes that represent their country or the country they have been learning about in class. We ended Culture Week with a parade around the school.

Culture week in the Nursery

This week we have been learning about the world that we live in. Our focus country was Somalia.

Here are some of the activities the children have enjoyed.

  • We have been learning where differnt countries are on the world map.
    We explored the world map.
  • We learnt about Mo Farah. He was born in Somalia and worked hard for a better life in England.
  • We tasted some Somalian food. It was spicy!
  • The dates were sweet!
  • We made Somalian pancakes out of playdough.
  • We explored different spices.
  • We looked at African fabrics and patterns.
  • We did some weaving.
  • We learnt about the city we live in.
  • We designed some Henna patterns.
  • We went on a parade and showed off our traditional clothes.

Culture Week in 2B!

‘I enjoyed culture week because we got to dress up!’ – Meliah

‘I liked culture week because it was fun doing the Chinese ribbon dancing’ – Jacob

‘We got to try new food from Poland!’ – Kitty

‘I LOVED culture week because it was really fun and we got to learn and have fun!’  -Kayla

‘I liked culture week because we got to celebrate other people’s cultures’ – Lucas

‘I enjoyed trying Polish food’ – Joe

‘I enjoyed the PARADE! It was so fun!’ – Ruth

‘I liked culture week because we were allowed to come in our traditional clothes!’ – Sarah

Culture Week 12th-16th June

This week 2T have enjoyed learning all about Poland. We have learnt how to say some simple polish words and found out a lot of information about the country itself. We really enjoyed trying different Polish foods, we had a class vote and the dumplings were the overall favourite. We have all made a Polish flag and completed a Polish fact file.

Even though it wasn’t about Poland we enjoyed a Chinese ribbon workshop earlier on in the week and we even performed a dance.

Today we enjoyed getting dressed up and representing our countries. At the end of the day we had a parade around the school. What a fun week we have had!