R.E Trail

Last week we were very lucky to go on our first school trip in Year 2 to the Mosque, Mandir and the Gurdwara. When we came to school we were so excited!

First we went on a large, blue coach to the Mosque. When we arrived we had to cover our heads to show respect to the people who follow the Islamic religion and use the Mosque. Then we took off our shoes and went into the prayer room. There were lots of boxes on the carpet to show where people can use each square as a prayer mat. In the Mosque we learnt that Muslims pray 5 times a day but at different times in the summer and the winter. We also saw some Arabic writing. Did you know that you read Arabic from right to left?

Next we went to the Mandir, this is the Hindu temple of worship. We had to take our shoes off here too. We saw lots of beautiful statues showing the Hindu gods, one of them had 8 arms! We walked around the statues, and saw some people pouring milk and water on a special statue of a snake and then we got a tasty sweet. 

The final place of worship we visited was the Gurdwara. Firstly we had to cover our heads and remove our shoes again. Then a lady taught us about the 5 K's that Sikhs follow. Then we went into the Lungar Hall and we were lucky enough to try some curry and chapati's! This was our favourite part because we got to try new foods and they were delicious!

By Deanna, Isabelle and Rohan

STEM Day 2!

On Wednesday we had the second of our STEM days as part of the Sensation Activation Rolls Royce project. First Miss Coburn told us what we would be doing in a whole school assembly. She explained how we would be better technologists and engineers by designing and making models of a new story chair for our playground.

Our first mission was to design how we wanted the back, arms and legs of our new chair to look. We looked at other chairs and used our imaginations to think of new ideas. We had some super ideas like a king themed chair, a beauty and the beast themed chair and a book themed chair! 

Next we had to copy our ideas onto our final designs. This was when we could make little changes to our designs to make sure they were amazing and unique to our school!

In the afternoon we made models of our final chair designs using foil and sticky tape. We found the foil really tricky to build with because our models wouldn't stand up. In the end and after lots of hard work our models looked great. 

By Ebaney, Oliver and Harleen 

When we went to the Church...

Today we came into school feeling ecstatic to be going on a trip to the Church. First we had to go on a long walk to get to the Church, it took us 20 minutes! On the way we talked to our partners to make our journey go quicker. 

When we arrived we looked at the grave stones that were outside the Church. We learnt that round the back of the church there was an area of really old graves. Next we went inside the gigantic, beautiful Church. The first thing we did inside was sit down on chairs to listen to a man tell us all about Christianity and the Church. He asked us lot of questions and we tried to answer them with what we learnt at school. 

Then the teachers gave us work booklets and we had to look all around the Church to find the objects that were on the first page of our booklets. We also had to draw our favourite parts of the Church - ours were the Font and the Organ! 

Before leaving we were treated to some juice and a biscuit, which were delicious! Then we had the walk back to school but it was much quicker on the way back. 

By Kaynan and Lewis