Celebrating Bodhi day
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8th December 2023 To celebrate Bodhi day, which is a Buddhism celebration, we created lots of activities in school. We learnt how it celebrates the time when Buddha become enlightened and began to pass his understanding onto others. You can be enlightened by following the eight-fold path. We found out that many people decorate their […]
Children In Need Day
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17th November 2023 The children and staff enjoyed celebrating Children In Need Day by wearing something spotty.
Odd Socks Day
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13th – 17th November 2023 We have been celebrating anti-bullying week by wearing odd socks! By wearing odd socks, we are showing that we are all individual and unique.
Diwali
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10th November 2023 As a school we have been learning about the Sikh and Hindu festival of Divali which celebrates light overcoming darkness. We have created lots of different decorations, drawn representations of God and Godesses, created our own rangoli mats. KS1 had the opportunity to try some sweets!
Cross Country Training
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17th October 2023 Cross country club are working hard to train for the Milton Keynes Schools cross country competition. Excellent focus and running from all pupils, well done!
Parks Trust Assembly
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16th October 2023 Today a representative from the Parks Trust came to our assembly. They talked to us about how they keep our parks ‘Litter Free’ and how we can help to keep them clean.
Harvest Festival
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13th October 2023 Cedars Primary School celebrated the Harvest Festival at Lovat Hall. Over the past few weeks, we collected lots of canned and dried food ready to donate to the food bank. Â We walked down to the church and sang Harvest Samba and Little Acorns, read a poem and listened to Minister Peter […]
World Mental Health Day
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10th October 2023 We celebrated World Mental Health Day by fundraising money and dressing in yellow. In our classes, we discussed the importance of looking after our mental health and the ways we can do this. The school’s council chose some activities to complete: designing a crown, creating your own emoji, a wordsearch and mindfulness […]
Sign Language Day
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18th-22nd September 2023 To celebrate International Day of Sign Language on the 23rd of September, we have been learning about the importance to sign for the deaf community; we looked at finger spelling which is the ‘manual alphabet’ for words without a sign. In our classes, we looked at British Sign Language and learnt to […]
School Council Elections
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28th September 2023 We had our school council election. Over the past week, children have been able to put their names down for a certain priority: charity, community, or environment. KS2 children made speeches to their peers, explaining the importance of them being voted for their cause. We voted using ballot cards and placed them […]