This week we have a cultural enrichment week. Where possible classes will be exploring music, art and stories and more linking to the different cultures represented within their class. If you have any song recommendations or stories that you could send in or email to your class teacher it would be lovely to celebrate cultural songs/stories that are special to the families in our classes.

Dates

Tuesday 7th May – please return the children’s ‘Bags of belonging’ which should have come home with them last week.
Thursday 9th May will be a special non-uniform day, when children are invited to wear the colours of their nationality flag, or to come in cultural dress. 
Thursday 9th May – After school cultural food event (see poster below)
Friday 17th May – Year 1 trip to the SS Great Britain
Saturday 18th May – Mayfair

Learning

This week is our enrichment week where the children will have a wonderful variety of activities! We will be celebrating our differences, and also our belonging – to our families and to our school.

On Tuesday, we are fortunate to have language teachers from Redmaids’ High School coming in to teach the children some Spanish vocabulary! Throughout the week, we will be hearing stories from other cultures and in different languages, exploring art and music from different countries. On Wednesday, we have a dance workshop being led by Movema who specialise in celebrating diversity through dance.

If you are able to offer samples of your family’s special food, please contact Mary Brand or Ella Grant on the Buttercup class email: Buttercup@henleaze-inf.bristol.sch.uk

English

Phonics
Focus is alternatives spelling for known phonemes:
‘s’-house
‘z’-please
‘i’-happy
‘i’-donkey
‘ear’-here
‘ear’-deer
Reading and writing
In English we will be exploring books based around different cultures. If you have a book that you like to share at home that is either in your home language or is about your family culture, please do bring it in to share (labelled please).

Inspired by the book Faruk and the Wiri Wiri, we will be looking at how food is important in cultures and reflecting on our own favourite family meals.

Cultural Enrichment Learning and Activities

Personal, Social and Emotional Development – We will be discussing greetings and looking at the different words used as a greeting in different languages.

PE – The children will be taking part in a dance workshop delivered by Movema.

Art – Classes will be choosing different artwork styles from countries and origins that they wish. They will then be sharing some of this with the rest of the school.

Music – we will be explroing songs and music from different countries.

Learning share – at the end of the week we will be having a whole school assembly where we come together to share some of the things we have done that week.