As a grand finale to our Chinese New Year learning, we held a parade to drive away any evil spirits and to bring good luck to our school. Children banged the drums they had designed and built, waved banners with phrases and symbols on,…

Thank you to the four volunteers from the Confucius Institute who joined us to help us learn more about Chinese New Year. As well as giving us more background in Chinese festivals and geography, the children across Key Stage 2 learnt…

Wow - look how creative you all are! Thank you to the children and adults who have worked together on producing a topic linked piece of homework. We enjoyed scientists with eggs in liquid investigations, models of the solar system…

Happy Year of the Pig! In assembly we have been learning about Chinese New Year, the Buddhist legend around how the zodiac animals were chosen and how people in China celebrate this time of year. The children in Key Stage 2 impressed…

At Willow Lane, we embrace the teaching of MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) with our younger children (Reception, Year 1 and Year 2) experiencing a term of Spanish, French and German. In Key Stage 2, the children study a language in more…

As part of their MFL (Modern Foreign Language) studies, Yellow Class have been learning about Spanish food. This has culminated in a Spanish food taste testing session where the children sampled different tapas (small snacks). These…

As part of their MFL (Modern Foreign Language) learning, Year 6 have visited the local Mandarin speaking restaurant and ordered their meals in Mandarin. They used phrases of praise and thanks for the delicious meal and many of the…

Well done for all your fabulous creations. Linked to this term's topics, we had Iron Men, baking, European Country fact files, Minecraft created scenarios, diagrams and paintings of plants, mini worlds, moving robots, flags, powerpoint…

Look what came to assembly - a Chinese Dragon and some Chinese Lions! Having visited the classes throughout the day, the animals and musicians performed in front of the whole school. This was a recreation of a key part of Chinese New…

As part of our Chinese New Year celebrations, members of the Confucius Institute (from Lancaster University) spent the day in school visiting classes who learn Mandarin. They taught the children Tai Chi which the children all enjoyed.…