As you can see from the photographs, this week saw the children putting the final touches to their divas by painting and decorating them with everything shiny that they could find. They can’t wait to bring them home and light their tealight to celebrate Diwali. They have also been colouring Rangoli patterns and have successfully made them symmetrical. As part of the Diwali celebrations in school, they performed in a play at our assembly all about Rama and Sita and the first Diwali. The applause from all the children and teachers made them feel very proud indeed.

As Halloween celebrations will be happening during half-term, we have been making some spooky spider hats to wear, which also gave the children the chance to reinforce the concept of symmetry as well as learning to concertina paper which is a great way to develop fine motor skills. It also involved a lot of instructions and the results are spectacular. It certainly encouraged a lot of fierce spider faces!

Finally I am including a photograph from last Friday when the children were beside themselves with excitement to dress up in a Halloween costume and then zoom off to the celebrations. They tried to put on very scary faces! Have a great half-term!