Multicultural Week

The week was spent on learning more about India by concentrating 4 full days on the topic. The year group already learn about Chembakolli, a village in South India in geography in the summer term.

During the week, we tasted foods, learned some Gujerati, did a dance and some drama as well as some literacy based on a book called 'Footprints in the Forest'. Mrs Bell spoke to all the Year 3 about her trip to India, using music and a home-made video to show different parts of India. She had some table cloths with block printing too. We used that to create our own block prints in 3B.

The whole year group then did some printing from them. The results were amazing. Everyone will have some to keep from the

multicultural week at school.

Workshop on Family Learning

The week half term started on Tuesday for most children but Monday for Wil Pearson. He went to help Mrs Bell run a workshop at the beautiful Botanical Gardens in Birmingham. It was a very grand place with over 150 people there for the conference! Luckily only 25 had chosen the Family Learning workshop (there were 5 different workshops at the same time). Mrs Bell was very proud of the way Wil and Elliott spoke about Family learning at our school. They helped with 3 different activitites. The pace was so fast, Mrs Bell was grateful for Wil and his grandma's and Elliott and his mum's help. Everything went well and everyone seemed to enjoy the workshop. They joined in with everything.

Afterwards there was an ice-cream for the boys and a well-earned cup of tea for Anita, Freda and Mrs Bell. The gardens were nice, too. The journey back was not too easy though. There was so much traffic and WHY are there so many roundabouts in Birmingham?