Easter 2025

With Easter round the corner, my Class 4 pupils got very busy making creative cards which we later sent to our friends in Lithuania, Spain, Taiwan and the USA.

Soon, lovely cards from our friends arrived and made us very happy.

cards from Lithuania and Mallorca

cards from the Canary Islands and Taiwan

Christmas 2024

Two weeks before winter holiday have been pretty busy.

Class 1 and Class 4 pupils enjoyed making their cards for our friends from Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, Türkiye and the USA.

Together with their friends from Croatia, Greece, Romania and Türkiye, Class 7 pupils created a digital card. They added some lights and the gingerbread man to the Christmas tree and put the image of the elf's legs in the snow. They also added some spring images to April in the collaborative calendar.

Class 1 pupils learned the famous song about Santa with ease.

 

They also joined the GSA contest and designed their baubles as a group. Everyone put their unique touch on them.

We organised online meetings with our friends from Mallorca and the Canaries on 10 December and New York on 17 December, shared how we celebrate Christmas and New Year, and sang We Wish You a Merry Christmas song.

As part of the Festive Coding activity, Class 4 pupils had fun coding in Scratch and drawing using Pixel Art while as part of the Eco-Coding Wonderland activity, Class 7 pupils enjoyed collaborating on the design of a virtual sustainable city with a Christmas theme. With their project partners, they also created and played a digital escape room game and decorated a virtual Christmas tree with eco-friendly ornaments.

Places in a Town

We started the lesson with a guessing activity. The pupils looked at the poster and answered questions like,

• Where do you go when you want to see a film? Is there a cinema in our town?
• Where do you go when you want to play with your friends, ride a bike or swing?
• Where do you go when you want to buy some bread? Is there a bakery near your house?

In this way, we revised different buildings and their locations.

Then, I informed them that we would switch to the station rotation activity and reminded them what it includes.

In teams, the pupils sat down at different desks with tasks. I informed them that they had to finish their task before moving to the next station clockwise:

• Online Spelling Game: Play an online game to check the spelling of different places.
• Building Description: Read descriptions and stick different buildings where they belong on a map.
• Place Guessing Game: Play an online game to guess the correct place based on clues.
• Dialogue Practice: Order the dialogue and act out a situation in the street to practice giving directions.
• Neighbourhood Design: Design a perfect neighbourhood in 3D or as a physical poster.

Finally, I asked my pupils to use small pieces of paper and write something they liked on one side, with a heart or a plus, and something they would change or improve on the other side.

As a follow-up, I asked them to complete the tasks in their books related to places in the town.

PS Here are the links to my pupils' 3D neighbourhoods: V1, V2 and V3.

Finger Family

 Learning family members with finger puppets and a catchy tune can be a lot of fun.

Butterflies

 The lesson about the life cycle of a butterfly, followed by matching, colouring and cut-outs activities, has proved to be a success with this year's Class 3 pupils as well.

This year, I've suggested my pupils to use chopsticks or drinking straws for their mobiles.