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Darling Blog

A very warm welcome to Darling Class. Please do have peep at what we have been getting up to.

February 2021

  • Chinese New Year

    Published 22/02/21

    The last week of term was an exciting one, for those at home and in school, as we learned all about Chinese New Year, how it came about and how it is celebrated.

    We had great fun creating Chinese New Year fireworks pictures - outside and...

     

     

    ... on the computer!

      

    We hunted for money and compared the amounts.

     

     

     We made Chinese New Year banners and wrote captions for them.

    Finally, to celebrate the Year of the Ox we created this wonderful artwork from natural materials.

     

     

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  • Taking Time Out To Just Be

    Published 03/02/21

    With so much going on around us in the world, sometimes we can forget to just stop and be.

    This week is Children's Mental Health Week and one of the activities we have enjoyed most is 'cloud gazing'.

    We shared the story 'Hi Clouds' in the class and with the children who are learning remotely and then went to see for ourselves what appeared in the sky.

     

    These are some of the things that we spotted: "sheep, lots of lying down sheep", "a hot chocolate with cream on the top", "Santa's beard", "a bunny with bunny ears", "wheels" , "a buffalo" and we all saw this one....

    a dragon!!!

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