This week we have being doing some Halloween themed pieces of work. We created super Halloween poems thinking about adjectives, alliteration and rhyming. Some of the children read these out at the infant assembly this morning.

We have been learning about 3D shapes and nets, this week we used our knowledge of this to create 3D Halloween monsters. We had lots of fun doing this!

In Art, we created spooky Mummy eyes. We used oil pastels and blending to help make these creepy!

This week, people around the world are celebrating Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas!

We learned that Diwali is the Festival of Lights, and celebrates the victory of good over evil and light over darkness. Families light lamps, decorate their homes, and enjoy sweets and fireworks.

Bandi Chhor Divas is a Sikh festival on the same day. It remembers Guru Hargobind Ji, who helped free 52 kings from prison. Sikhs light up gurdwaras and pray for freedom and peace. Both festivals remind us to be kind to each other.

To celebrate we took part in a craft activity to make our own diya lights.

This week we were learning about the street artist Thank you x. We were learning about how he got noticed in the art world and how he become known worldwide very quickly. We explored how he uses colour, line and patterns in his artwork. We created our own street art for our classroom inspired by his work.

On Thursday we had a brilliant day at the Science Centre. We took part in ‘Castles Rock’ which was a great show! We were learning about how castles were built, what they were built from and how climate change has had an impact on them. We will be learning more about this as part of out IDL topic after the October week.  The children all enjoyed exploring the  different levels of the Science Centre.