Pine Tree: Christianity and Buddhism
Date: 3rd Jul 2025 @ 3:33pm
This week in Pine Tree we have been learning all about Buddhism and Christianity and the similarities and diffferences between them both. Both religions encourage good behaviour, show kindness and try to overcome negative emotions like anger and hatred through love and compassion. To help demonstrate this in Pine Tree Class we have been paying each other compliments. Some of the compliments included 'I like your hair today', 'I like it when you giggle and smile', 'You are a good friend to me'. The compliments came very naturally to the students and shows what kind people we have in our class! We then moved on to completing a poster about how to be a good friend. Some of our ideas included helping our friends when they are hurt, playing with our friends and doing helpful jobs.
This week in Numeracy, we have moved on to learning about Fractions. To help demonstrate this, we have used the art of pizza! The students have helped to make salt dough and then shaped the salt dough into pizza shapes and then used a plastic knife to cut the pizza up into different amounts such as halves, quarters and eighths. The students were able to also find the missing section to make their pizza whole again, for example if they had half a pizza on their plate, what would they need to make it a full pizza again? This was a great approach which really engaged the pupils!
In Literacy, we have been learning about non-chronological reports. We have explored some reports about commonly known fast food restaurants such as McDonalds and KFC and what qualities make up a report, such as a title, sub-headings, photographs and paragraphs. The students are now moving on to creating their own non-chronological reports which will be based on Recycling. The students have been gathering information from various sources and are beginning to form their reports based on their information and own knowledge.
Next week on Tuesday 8th July at 5-7PM we have Open Evening so come down and see what we get up to in Pine Tree Class.
See you next week!
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