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Year One had a fabulous week celebrating the Queen's 90th Birthday.

We began by finding out about the Queen's life and about her family. We constructed a royal family tree in small groups before researching the Queen's life through video clips and photographs. We ordered the photos and wrote…

We have had a fantastic 3 days celebrating the Queen’s 90^th Birthday. In history we have looked at the Queen’s family tree and found out facts about the Queen, we also placed the main events of her life on a time-line. On Thursday we designed our own coins and stamps to commemorate the…

This year our nation is celebrating our monarchs 90^th birthday. To celebrate this we have had three days of fun filled activities to commemorate the event. Wednesday started off with portraits through the decades and learning the national anthem on our saxophones. Thursday was learning about the…

We have been celebrating the Queen's Birthday in style this week in Reception Class. We enjoyed making flags, placemats and party crowns in preparation for Friday's Birthday Tea Party. Everybody enjoyed taking part in our sponsored event 'Fit for the Queen' on Thursday and all the children…

We have had a brilliant 3 days celebrating the Queen's 90th birthday.  In History we have looked at the changing role of the monarch, discussing what Queen Elizabeth can do in the role of Queen compared to monarchs in the past.  We also looked at the Queen's family tree.  We have learnt the…

We only came back on Wednesday but we have had a fun filled week celebrating the Queen's birthday. We started the week with our fact files about the Queen and our sponsored 'Fit for the Queen' event.

We then wrote about what we would do if we were  Queen or King for the day. I'm not sure Miss…

Tolerance week

We started the week off with a KS1 sing along which was followed by a Tolerance lunch. The whole school were given different coloured stickers. This meant that each pupil had to sit with someone with the same coloured sticker in order to make new friends.

We also looked at the…

This week has been Tolerance Week. We have had a really exciting week learning about what ‘tolerance’ is as well about the Hindu religion and culture. We had a visitor called Rif on Tuesday who discussed what ‘tolerance’ is and how to show we are tolerant and accepting to people who…

This week we have been learning about the British value of tolerance this week. 

We have had a range of visitors and activities to encourage understanding of tolerance to different beliefs and opinions. This has been fun but also challenging.

These activities have included:

-a tolerance…

This week has been Tolerance Week at Gillibrand and Reception Class have enjoyed learning about the Hindu faith and culture. On Monday we enjoyed a 'Tolerance Lunch'. The children all swapped seats and sat with other people. It's nice to make new friends! Our special visitor on Wednesday told us…

Year 5 have had a really interesting week.  On Monday Rif came in to speak to the children about tolerance and what it meant to them.  She challenged their views about some difficult subjects but the children responded very well and contributed to the session sensibly.  

In RE we have been…