Outdoor Classroom Day at Grimsdell took place today, and it was a wonderful opportunity for the children to learn outdoors with a focus on digital learning and oracy. Bringing technology outdoors and combining these two areas has proved very successful and allowed the children to be innovative and imaginative. The activities were modelled in our […]
As the restrictions gradually relax, with more changes afoot next week, there is a sense of normality returning and understandably there are a range of emotions and feelings about how to navigate this. For some, it presents an exciting opportunity to shop, eat out and party in a social frenzy. For others it is more […]
Looking back at my Summer Term blog, which looked forward to an Autumn Term in which we hoped to be ‘embracing normality’, and reflecting now on the term just gone, it has to be said that it was not without its challenges – mirroring those experienced locally, nationally and around the world – challenges which […]
Today we devoted an entire day of school and learning to a Celebration of Diwali. From the origins of the festival to the many creative and practical ways we celebrate it – the children were immersed in Diwali joy through clothing, food, activities, art, dancing and story-telling. We began with our Zoom assembly where the […]
