2017/2018 – Festivals and Special Days

04/07/18

Today we celebrated 4th July by making and eating American Biscuits!

Delicious!!!

04/07/18

4th of July firework pictures and finger painting flags

17/06/18

Happy Father’s Day to all the special men in our lives- dads, granddad’s, uncles, brothers, cousins, post man, neighbours… we hope you have a lovely day 💙☺

This week we have been very busy getting ready for today! We have created medals, made flip cards, decorated a tie with mixed medias and wrote down all the special people in our lives!!

This afternoon at Fusion we created modes of transports and road signs out of junk modelling! Well done to the flying safety car (maybe something we will see in the future) and the traffic lights were brilliant! Fantastic team work and great imagination 👍🏽🚦🚏🚗

17/06/18

Happy Father’s Day to all the special men in our lives- dads, granddad’s, uncles, brothers, cousins, post man, neighbours… we hope you have a lovely day 💙😊

This week at Fusion we have created our own Newspaper reports and used adjectives to describe our special person and made up funny stories about them!

17/06/18

This week at Fusion we have been celebrating all the special men in our lives and we baked football biscuits for them!! Don’t they look delicious ⚽🥅

17/06/18

Happy Father’s Day to all the special men in our lives- dads, granddad’s, uncles, brothers, cousins, post man, neighbours… we hope you have a lovely day 💙☺

This week we have made our own acrostic poems up and designed and created medals for Father’s Day!!

17/06/18

Happy Father’s Day to all the special men in our lives- dads, granddad’s, uncles, brothers, cousins, post man, neighbours… we hope you have a lovely day 💙☺

This week we have created awards for our loved ones and decorated funky tshirts!!

06/06/18

Child Safety Week 2018-

Junk modelling – Road Safety🚦🚏🚗

06/06/18

Child Safety Week 2018-

Junk modelling – Road Safety🚦🚏🚗

Child Safety Week 2018 – 05/06/18

Child Safety Week- chalking road signs and yummy traffic light shortbreads!

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06/06/18

Child Safety Week 2018-

This week at Fusion we are looking at different types of safety wether it’s road safety, e-safety, electrical safety!

We have been focusing on road safety at breakfast club and completed word searches, and made our own road signs.

06/06/18

Child Safety Week 2018-

This week at Fusion we are looking at different types of safety wether it’s road safety, e-safety, electrical safety!

We have been focusing on road safety at breakfast club and completed word searches, and made our own road signs.

Royal Wedding – 19/05/18

We are so excited for the Royal Wedding! At fusion we have made invitations, decorated wedding dresses, designed royal crowns and made cupcakes for the Royal tea party! 👑

Royal Wedding – 16/05/18

Royal lemon and elderflower wedding cake for Harry and Meghan! 💍🎩

Royal Wedding – 14/05/18

We made tiara wedding veils, played with Harry and Megan Barbies and created our own wedding invitations 🎩💍

Congratulation Prince William and Princess Kate on the birth of the new baby Prince!

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We guessed what the new Prince would be called- what do you think?

Our top guesses were Arthur, Albert and Freddie!

St Georges Day – 23/04/18
This afternoon at Fusion we celebrated St George’s Day- the Patron Saint of England.

We designed our own dragons, created England Flags, iced yummy biscuits and learnt a lot about Saint George by doing a quiz!

St Georges Day – 23/04/18

Today at Fusion we celebrated St George’s Day. At breakfast club we made mixed media flags, bunting and roses!

Jess, Abby and Erin organised a game for everyone and adapted the Bean game to St George’s theme using key words-well done 👏🏽👏🏽

EASTER

Busy week making Easter crafts and doing Easter related games and activities.
Cooking, craft: sewing, making, bunny hunt (man hunt but with bunnies), other Easter games, treasure hunts and lots more still to come next week. 🐥🐤🐣🍫

Emerald came in and did a drama session with us. She taught us about how different countries celebrate Easter. Here are some of our mimes. 🐣🐥🐤🍫

☘🇨🇮Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone. Here is a look at the activities we have been up too as well as lots of games! 🇨🇮☘

Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all the lovely and special ladies in our lives, whether you are our mother, aunt, sister, grandma, cousin, neighbour, friend we thank you for everything you do for us.

This week we have been super busy: made chocolate truffles, peppermint creams, planted flowers, made poems, cards, books Karla, dogs, wrapping paper and lots more.
Put your feet up and enjoy today as it’s all about you! 💜🛍🎉❤💐

St Davids Day – 03/03/18

St David’s Day activities 🌼🐲
We had a lots planned but with the Beast from the East it stopped them, we will save them until next year.
We did manage to squeeze in
A quiz
A bizzy bits dragon
Daffodil biscuits
Some craft
And some games the the children created

World Thinking Day- 22/02/18

🌎thinking day 22-02-18

Valentines Day- 14/02/18

We made valentine scratch cards 💙💜❤💛💚
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Valentines Day – 14/02/18

Pun- cards for valentines 💙❤💜💚💛

Valentines Day – 14/02/18

Valentines cards- “I’m hedge over heels for you” 💙❤💜💛💚💌
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Valentines Day – 14/02/18

Valentines paper chains, biscuits, window decorations, cards, an idea to make a loved one smile when they look at a pear, and we also played Cupid says! 💙💜💘❤💛💚

Valentines Day- 14/02/18

We made heart cards- the hearts are sun catcher decorations, we were being Cupid and were releasing our arrows and lots more craft and valentines related games.
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Valentines Day – 14/02/18

We made valentines cushions with Naomi today practicing our sewing skills.
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Valentines Day – 14/02/18

Shaving foam and red food colouring = messy sensory play! We made heart shaped decorations and some children were going to use it as wrapping paper!
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Valentines Day – 14/02/18

💘🖤💛💚💙💜❤We are celebrating Valentines this week and love is in the air! We made love heart lollipop/butterflies for our loved ones, and also made some tricky fabric weaved hearts. ❤💜💙💚💛🖤💘

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

Chinese new year science experiments- mini lanterns/fireworks and lots more 🇨🇳💌🏮🐶🎎🍜

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

Chinese New Year: colouring, Chinese hats and a drama lesson where we were Pretending to be a dragon. 🇨🇳💌🎈🎎🐶🏮

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

Chinese New Year: Chinese lanterns, Chinese zodiac wheel, Chinese games and Chinese decorations which one of our parents kindly gave us. 🇨🇳💌🎈🏮🐶🎎

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

Chinese New Year this week- Chinese drums, Chinese lanterns and a Chinese numbers game- we like a bit of competition at Fusion!

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

We are celebrating Chinese New Year this week. Today we have played Chinese whispers and other Chinese related games, did a Chinese quiz about a Chinese story, made envelopes, wrote messages using Chinese writing and then decoded them, made Chinese picture frames, made a Chinese bird- we have been busy! Debee made us a tasty Chinese stir fry with prawn crackers, soy and sweet chilli sauce!
The children liked it so much we didn’t manage to get any photos! 🇨🇳🐶💌🎎🏮🍜

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

Chinese New Year- we Played Kim’s game with Chinese related objects and played a Chinese number game 🐶🎉🎈🏮🎎💌🇨🇳

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

Chinese New Year and fan making and colouring 🐶🎉🎈🏮🎎💌🇨🇳

Chinese New Year – 30/01/18

Chinese New Year and spring roll making 🐶🎉🎈🏮🎎💌🇨🇳

Burns Night- 24/01/18

Look what we made with Naomi!

Burns Night – 26/01/18

Robert Burns tartan

Burns Night – 24/01/18

activities for Burns Night

Burns Night – 24/01/18

We are celebrating Robert Burns for the remainder of the week. Here are the thistles we made at Breakfast Club.

Burns Night – 26/01/18

Robert Burns poems

Burns Night – 24/01/18

Burns night- we made mini Robert Burns from a range of material. Some of the year 6 children created a game with Scottish words and actions. We watched an animated story of Robert Burns to find out who he was and then we watched Scooby Doo with the Loch Ness Monster!

World Religion Day- 18/01/18

Today we have been celebrating world religion day. Look what we have been up to 🌎

World Religion Day – 18/01/18

Emerald came and we did some drama about religion and religious symbols and festivals. ✝☪🔯✡☸🕉🕎

World Religion Day – 18/01/18

What religions means to me. Silhouette mosques and world religion poems. 🕌

World Religion Day – 18/01/18

We were very lucky today, we learnt all about Sikhism as part of World Religion Day. Jasmine’s dad very kindly gave up his time to come and talk to us. We got to see his Kara (bracelet), we also tried on headscarves and got to ask lots of questions. We even got to try some Karah Prashad which is a sweet that is given to anyone who visits the Gurdwara. Thank you so much!

World Religion Day- 18/01/18

World Religion Day 2018
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Martin Luther King Day – 15/01/18

It is Martin Luther King day today.
We played a few games, thought and talked about our future dreams and goals and watched a video all about Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King Day – 15/01/18

It is Martin Luther King day today.
We played a few games, thought and talked about our future dreams and goals and watched a video all about Martin Luther King.

Christmas – 01/12/17-20/12/17

We had two special visitors at Fusion today! 😂😂⛄⛄🎅🏽🎅🏽

Christmas – 01/12/17- 20/12/17

Lovely Christmas crafts this afternoon!❄❄

Christmas – 01/12/17-20/12/17

We designed our own Gingerbread Men and then created our designed on real Gingerbread men! They were delicious and very well planned and decorated!

Christmas – 01/12/17-20/12/17

Mistletoe Rice Krispies cake, Christmas puzzles, Christmas the Grinch Just Dance! ❄🎅🏽⛄🎄

Our lovely Christmas display board

Christmas – 01/12/17 – 20/12/17

Breakfast club activities and a snowy walk over to the Infants.

Christmas – 01/12/17 – 20/12/17

Christmas activities from Breakfast Club 🎄⛄❄

Christmas – 01/12/17-20/12/17

Christmas Crafts at breakfast club!! 🎄⛄🎄⛄

Hanukkah – 12/12/17

We have been playing with Dreidel’s- a Jewish game to celebrate Hanukkah!!!

Hanukkah – 12/12/17

We have been celebrating Hanukkah today at Fusion and been doing lots of exciting activities to help us learn!

Hanukkah – 18/12/17

We celebrated Hanukkah today and here are some children lighting the Chanukah Menorah, that was kindly donated by one of our Jewish families. We will be talking about Hanukkah some more this week and lighting our candles. 🕎

St Andrews Day – 30/11/17

St Andrews Day- This week we are celebrating St Andrews Day and today we made our own Tartan family design! Look at all the different combinations we had!!

St Andrews Day – 30/11/17

St Andrews Day-Today we did some Highland Dancing, made Loch Ness Monsters, and learnt a lot about St Andrews Day by doing a fun quiz!!!

St Andrews Day – 30/11/17

St Andrews Day- Today we celebrated St Andrews Day by creating mixed media Scottish flags!!

Anti-bullying week 13/11/17-17/11/17

We spoke about what bullying means and what it looks like and the different types of bullying. We created some posters, made a poem, thought about similarities and differences, did a cut and stick activity and we were all demonstrating what it is like to be a good friend.

Thanks Giving- 20/11/17

This week we are celebrating Thanksgiving! We made 3d origami Turkeys and paper plate Turkeys and watched a thanksgiving video

Thanks Giving- 20/11/17

This week we are celebrating Thanksgiving! We made 3d origami Turkeys and paper plate Turkeys and watched a thanksgiving video

Thanks Giving- 20/11/17

This week we are celebrating Thanksgiving! We made 3d origami Turkeys and paper plate Turkeys and watched a thanksgiving video

Thanks Giving- 20/11/17

This week we are celebrating Thanksgiving! We made 3d origami Turkeys and paper plate Turkeys and watched a thanksgiving video

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

We created acrostic poems about ‘Heroes’. And filled in the gaps about Remembrance Day facts!

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

At breakfast club we played a pairs game with Remembrance day words. We learnt new words to do with Remembrance Day and used them in sentences.

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

At Fusion we created our own medals just like the soldiers who fought in the war. We thought about what we wanted to put on them and decorated the medals 🎖🏅🎖🏅

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

We made mixed media Poppies to Celebrate Remembrance Day.

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

This morning at breakfast club we made Poppy Wreaths and the children used the bunchems to create their own Poppies

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

3D poppies and wreaths

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

Play dough poppies and salt dough poppies!

Remembrance Day – 11/11/17

In line with our Remembrance theme we played a game of human sculptures.
Children had to work as a team and use their bodies to make the following:
A parade, medals, poppy, cenotaph and lots more.
We also played lots of other games that link to Remembrance Day.

Bonfire Night – 05/11/17

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Today we made colourful fireworks with a toilet roll!!! They look fab!

Bonfire Night – 05/11/17

Breakfast club activities this morning! We made Origami 3D Guy Fawkes, rockets and barrels! The Juniors completed a word wheel challenge and a bonfire code breaker! 🚀🎆🎇

Bonfire Night – 05/11/17

We made yummy bonfire biscuits today! 🎆🎇

Bonfire Night – 05/11/17

We made our own bonfires! We used lots of different materials to make them! 🎆🎇

Bonfire Night – 05/11/17

At breakfast club we have been celebrating Bonfire night by making colourful fireworks! They look brilliant! 🎆🎇

Bonfire Night – 05/11/17

At breakfast club we adapted the famous ‘bean game’ to Fireworks night!

We acted out bouncy fireworks, Catherine wheels, bonfires and much more!! 🎆🎇

BONFIRE NIGHT 🎇🎆

Today as a special treat, to celebrate Bonfire Night we each got to have our own sparkler! We listened very carefully to the safety rules before and had lots of fun!!

Halloween – 31/10/17

WE’RE BACK! 🎃👻
This morning at breakfast club we did Spooky Halloween Yoga! Can you guess some of the poses we did?

Halloween – 31/10/17

🎃👻 HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES THIS MORNING 👻🎃

We have made skeletons out of cotton buds and 3D old witches!

Halloween – 31/10/17

🎃🎃🎃HALLOWEEN 🎃🎃🎃

Pumpkin Galore! This morning at breakfast club we made mixed media Pumpkins- they look great!

Halloween – 31/10/17

Spooky Halloween activities at Fusion! Well done to Charlie M for the best decorated pumpkin!

Halloween – 31/10/17

👻🎃 Halloween 🎃👻

We played ghosts and ghost busters at Fusion using the parachute! Naomi and the children made fantastic spider ponchos! Apple printing pumpkins and trick or treat cupcakes!!!

Halloween – 31/10/17

Today to celebrate Halloween we had a spoooooky dinner with pumpkin peppers and creepy crawly cookies! YUM 🎃🐜🕷

Halloween – 31/10/17

We gutted our pumpkins, filled them with gloop and used our sense of touch to try and guess what was inside. Everyone had a go. Can you guess what we filled our pumpkins with? We also made a sparkly gold pumpkin with nails and wool to create a spider web look. 🎃🕷🙀

Halloween – 31/10/17

👻🎃 Halloween 🎃👻

We played ghosts and ghost busters at Fusion using the parachute! Naomi and the children made fantastic spider ponchos! Apple printing pumpkins and trick or treat cupcakes!!!

Halloween – 31/10/17

Last minute face painting for trick or treating tonight. 🎃👻☠🎨

Halloween – 31/10/17

Emerald came in today to firstly make us laugh as she was a giant pumpkin and then also taught us a scary and spoken Halloween dance.
We made a paper chain of ghosts and here is the scary pepper pumpkin that Debee made! 🎃👻

Halloween – 31/10/17

Diwali – 16-20/10/17

Today we continued learning about Diwali. We all made either an elephant masks or a 3D elephants.🐘

Diwali – 16-20/10/17

This week we have been learning all about Diwali. We made two different types of diva lamps, lanterns and designed our own Diwali acrostic poems.

Diwali – 16-20/10/17

DIWALI 🔵🔴🔶

This week we are celebrating Diwali- the festival of light. We made candle plates and the Juniors had a create your own Rangoli competition. Well done Toby, Jamie, Lou and James!! 👏🏼👏🏼

Mental Health Awareness Day – 10/10/17

Today is Mental Health Awareness Day and we are raising awareness for this at Fusion.

This morning at breakfast club, the Infants wrote down different methods to help us calm down if we are upset or cross and shared these strategies as a group. We also wrote down 5 things we are good at!

Mental Health Awareness Day – 10/10/17

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about”- Mental Health Awareness Day 2017

Today is Mental Health Awareness Day.

At breakfast club the Juniors wrote down any worries they had and put it on the brain. As a group we sat down and discussed ways to overcome the worry and different strategies to help us. #youngminds #helloyellow

Mental Health Awareness Day -10/10/17

This afternoon we have spoken about our worries and as a group we worked together to think about how we can resolve them. We also spoke about our feelings and what we think we are good at, how we are good friends and what makes us happy. 😀

World Smile Day – 06/10/17

We made funny faces to make us smile!

World Smile Day – 06/10/17

HAPPY WORLD SMILE DAY

We watched a video about things we should say more often to make us smile

World Smile Day – 06/10/17

HAPPY WORLD SMILE DAY

We had lots of smiley children and parents this morning at breakfast club to celebrate World Smile Day!

We are going to do something today to make someone else smile, what are you going to do?

Sukkot – 04/10/17

Today we celebrated Sukkot which is a Jewish celebration of thanksgiving and harvest.

This morning at breakfast club we played a game using all the things that Sukkah’s are made from.
Etrod-fruit of the citron tree
Lulav- palm frond
Aravah-leaves from the willow tree

We also made Sukkot paper chains to decorate our huts (sukkah). We also watched a lego explanation of Sukkot so now we know all about the celebration!

”Chag Sameach’ – Happy Sukkot!!

Sukkot – 04/10/17

Today we celebrated Sukkot which is a Jewish celebration of thanksgiving and harvest.

We created huts called Sukkah’s out of lego. We used lego for the walls and natural resources for the food. All the children worked really well in teams to create the best structure and we had some fantastic huts!

We learnt that during this celebration, Jewish people eat in the Sukkah for 8 days so they needed to be big and comfortable!

”Chag Sameach’ – Happy Sukkot!

Sukkot – 04/10/17

And the fantastic winners! ⭐
Well done guys, excellent effort and we hope you have learnt a lot about Sukkot!

Yom Kippur – 29/09/17

Today at Fusion we wrote down what we would ask forgiveness for during Yom Kippur. We also watched a video that told us all about it. ✡

Rosh Hashannah – 20/09/17-22/09/17

This week at Fusion we have been celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. We watched (and danced) to a fantastic One Direction video on YouTube which explained what the celebration was! Have a listen as it’s very educational and fun!☪✡✝

Https://youtu.be/7BtgeiIdl7U

Rosh Hashannah 20/09/27-22/09/17

This week at Fusion we have been celebrating the Jewish New Year- Rosh Hashanah. ☪✡✝

The children learnt a lot about the celebration at Fusion and completed word searches and cross words. We spoke about what we have done that has been good this year and our accomplishments and what we could do better as we reflect on the new year to make things better! Excellent work guys

Rosh Hashannah 20/09/27-22/09/17

This week we have been celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. ☪✝

At breakfast club we have made New Year cards by Pomegranate printing. Pomegranates mean ‘grained apple’ in Hebrew and are traditional for Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashannah – 20/09/17-22/09/17

This week at Fusion we have been celebrating Rosh Hashanah- the Jewish New Year.

We also made apple flapjacks and apple and honey cake to celebrate the festival! They were so yummy!

Rosh Hashannah 20/09/27-22/09/17

This week at Fusion we have been celebrating Rosh Hashanah- the Jewish New Year.

We created Shofar’s which is a Jewish horn and played a Jewish version of the runner bean game. We also made bee’s as honey symbolises hope for a sweet new year! ✡☪✝

Rosh Hashannah 20/09/27-22/09/17

This week we have been celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. ☪✝

At breakfast club we had honey and apple which was delicious and a sweet treat, this symbolises hope for a sweet new year! ✡☪✝

Rosh Hashannah – 20/09/17-22/09/17

This week at Fusion we have been celebrating Rosh Hashanah- the Jewish New Year.

We also made apple flapjacks and apple and honey cake to celebrate the festival! They were so yummy!

Peace Day – 21/09/17

This week we have celebrated National Peace Day!☮✌

We have been very busy and played peace bingo, made peace cards to give to our friends and family, decorate peace signs and wrote kind notes about peace in the world!

Peace Day – 21/09/17

Happy Peace Day- Peace Out!