Sharing Our Learning
All classes have been celebrating disability awareness fortnight, learning about a range of disabilities and celebrating difference. Through our learning we have challenged stereotypes and developed an understanding of invisible disabilities. We have learned about the amazing and inspiring things achieved by disabled people. Today we had an assembly to share our learning, followed by a parade around the village, with banners to raise awareness.
P2/1 have started the new term with a new topic of learning that they are very excited about – Space! Children have been very enthusiastic about building rockets and learning about real life astronaut Chris Hadfield. They were most amazed to learn that when he was a little boy in 1969 most families didn’t have their own TV to watch the moon landing on!
While learning to write tally marks children went on a ‘space adventure’ to count the aliens, in art they worked together to design and paint their rocket, and during free play they showed great creativity and communication to build role-play rockets from everything including blocks, classroom furniture, garden equipment and always a large amount of imagination.
The children already have big plans for next week, when they want to fly their spacecraft to Mars to see what they find there!
While the campers were away having fun, children back at school were making the most of smaller numbers to collaborate on our Disability Awareness project. Over the course of the week children worked with Miss Smith, Miss Topping and Miss Sutherland to develop artistic skills representing this important topic.
In art children made self portraits that celebrated everyone’s uniqueness. In music children learned a song celebrating inclusion and respect for people with disabilities, and performed it beautifully by singing and playing tuned and untuned percussion instruments. In drama children created vignettes to highlight how people impacted by disability face challenges, and what we can do to help.
Look out for a showcase of all this and more on Thursday when we have a parade around the village!
It’s our last morning at camp and safe to say we’re all a bit gutted to be leaving.
We’ve had such a great time taking part in a range of activities, making new friends, working as a team and, most importantly, having loads of fun!
We have had an amazing day at camp today.
Some highlights include trapeze, air rifle shooting, aeroball and sensory trail.
We are getting ready for a silent disco later and then our final night in our dorms.
