Blog by Tag: Willow Class

This week Willow class have loved looking at more animals.. wild ones this time! We have enjoyed learning about all different animals that we might find in a zoo then finding out important facts like what habitats the zoos need to build for them and how they survive. We practiced our spellings,…

This week Willow class has celebrated another birthday- Joseph turned 11!
We celebrated with a party in class playing musical statues, pin the tail on the donkey, pass the parcel and musical chairs! Your teachers spotted that some of you were using the zoo dance moves we had learnt in my…

We hope everybody has had lots of fun learning about their class religion in our World Religion Week activities.

This week we have had lots of photos and videos shared with us of everybody at Astley Park completing our very special World Religion Week Six Star Challenge. Your teachers and…

Wow, Willow class have really impressed all their class teachers this term with how well everyone has adapted to changes! 
Children in school have been settling back into lessons and following our timetables, especially enjoying our daily teams calls with friends learning from home! The children…

Hello everyone, please enjoy this blog to help you learn about the religion of Islam. This blog has been researched and written by Hasan in Willow class. I hope you enjoy learning about this religion.- Miss Riley, Willow Class

What is Islam?

Islam is a religion practiced by Muslims.
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On Tuesday 26^th January we will be holding our first virtual ‘Chill & Chat’ session with parents and carers. The first session will be focused on supporting learning and well-being at home during these challenging times. The aim of the session is to provide an informal forum for parents to have a…

We have some exciting news for Willow class- this week we have welcomed a new member of staff to our team- Mrs Smith! We are all very lucky and the children in school have enjoyed getting to know her. Mrs Smith is very excited to meet everyone who is learning at home and has written you a…

Willow have had a lovely couple of weeks of Christmas activities!

Some of the magical moments we want to share are:

• Christmas dinner in class
• Christmas party lunch where we all had a McDonalds
• Christmas bingo in class where we invited families to share our learning
• Christmas photo…

What an exciting day for Willow class!

We were all so happy to come to school in our cosy pyjamas and own clothes for a special Christmas breakfast. We were all eager to see Santa on the video call and got to speak to Santa on the screen at the front of class- we understood that Santa is doin…

What a wonderful winter week for Willow class!

We have continued our work on the story “a Christmas collar”, learnt more about Arctic animals in science and started practicing for our class play, making outfits and rehearsing. 
We also worked really hard with our maths this week looking at…

This week Willow class had our second class party of the year- another new 11 year old!
This Wednesday we wished Kayla a very happy birthday and had a party in the afternoon!

We played musical bumps, don’t drop the balloon and ate some yummy cake that Kayla very kindly brought in to share! 
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This week Willow class looked at gender stereotypes and thought about what ideas we already had about gender, maybe without realising.  We tied this into looking at how this affects the jobs and hobbies we think people can have due to their gender.

We explored which stereotypes we were affected…