We celebrated World Hijab Day by wearing beautiful hijabs of all colours and styles.  World Hijab Day is an annual event founded by Nazma Khan in 2013. The event takes place on February 1st each year in 140 countries worldwide. Its stated purpose is to encourage women of all religions and backgrounds to wear and experience the hijab to promote understanding, respect and tolerance. The girls and teachers enjoyed experimenting with different hijab styles and colours on the day and posed away for the camera!

Teachers shared their hijab journeys and reminded children that the hijab should  never stop them in pursuing their dreams.

For Science Week KS1 conducted a coloured flower experiment.  The aim of this experiment was to explore how water is transferred through the plant. This experiment demonstrated how plants transport water up the stem via the xylem, to reach the leaves and petals. Throughout the week we observed how long it took for the bright white flowers to change colour after adding non-toxic food colouring to the water.

We also studied how Allah SWT mentions in the Quran ‘We made every living being out of water’”. By relating this to our experiment we understood the significant role water plays by Allah’s will and how essential it is for living beings.

Yet again another amazing day of amazing costumes

designed and made by the children to celebrate the end of Science week at Buttercup Primary. We are so impressed with the thought and creativeness of the

costumes worn today. Fantastic!

Brother Emdad returned again with activity/reading books called ’The story corner’ for KS 1 from Bookmark. They are a children’s literacy charity that wants every child to read. The books contain stories, and games for the children to enjoy. We thank brother Emdad for always remembering our school

For Maths week, KS1 created posters about topics that they enjoyed this term followed by some facts about Maths that they know. This helped them recap their knowledge about what they have learnt this term as well as what they enjoyed most.

They then moved onto the maths table which had many maths related resources and tasks for the children to complete such as, making the following numbers with cubes, dealing with money, recognising shapes as well as learning the time. This was to enable them to consolidate the topics that they learned from the start of the year.

Towards the end of Maths week, KS1 were assigned to do a challenge to see which year group made the most profit by selling chosen goods. KS1 first learned about what profit was and discussed how much the ingredients would cost from the £20 budget they had to spend on making cinnamon rolls. Then as a group, KS1 worked out how much they would sell each cinnamon roll to make a profit.

Children in year 5 and 6 chose to make pizzas for their apprentice challenge as they have been learning about fractions.

They used their knowledge of mixed and improper fractions to work out that they needed at least 5 pizzas, cut into quarters (to be sold for £1) to make the £20 back. Any pizza sold after that would be a profit. 

After buying the ingredients, children worked out that they could make 13 pizzas which would make them £60 in total and a £40 profit

Each class had to come up with a product to sell as part of their Apprentice challenge. As a result of the learning, each class produced different food items to be sold in the food sale. Early years made cup cakes and biscuits, Yr 1 and 2 made cinnamon whirls, Year 3 and 4 made popcorn cones and Yr 5 and 6 made pizza. We had a great turn out and sold everything! Each year group made a profit but the overall winners were the EYFS  team! A very well done to all that were involved.

The school councillors met to discuss how they can make the children in the school more aware of Anti-bullying. They made posters to send out the message of ‘Reach Out’ and how to recognise and stop any forms of bullying in the school.