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Celebrating Diwali in the Classroom

11 Oct, 2024

Celebrating Diwali in the Classroom

Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a special celebration in Hinduism, Jainism and Sik ...

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In today’s world, where kids encounter all kinds of different perspectives and experiences, helping them grow up with kindness, empathy, and understanding has never been more important. The Learn Together curriculum in Educate Together schools does exactly that—it gives students the tools to see and appreciate the unique qualities in everyone around them, fostering a sense of belonging and respect.

Through Learn Together, children develop a strong foundation in values like fairness, equality, and compassion. They learn that their voices matter and that they can make a real difference, no matter how young they are. It’s amazing to see kids realise that they don’t have to wait until they’re adults to contribute positively to their communities—they can start right here, right now.

Check out my new blog post at ciarasclassroom.com/blog to read the post in full and learn more about the Learn Together curriculum.

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I was lucky enough to work in schools with varying school ethos’ during my first few years of teaching and learned so much from each school, ethos, and team. One thing that I really liked about teaching in a Community National School was exploring the GMGY curriculum (an ethical ed. curriculum used as the patronage/ethos-related subject area within CNS schools) and getting my first taste of multidenominational education. One specific aspect that I continue to take some inspiration from is their Family Projects aspect of the curriculum. I think this is a methodology and idea that can be adapted for all schools to help promote respectful dialogue, a sense of community, oral language/show and tell, empathy, mutual understanding and celebrating diversity.

Here’s a photo of one family project I created and have used in classrooms since moving to a different school and different ethos. It’s perfect for SPHE, SESE, oral language, religion, GMGY and/or Learn Together and is a lovely way to share a bit more about our identities and family celebrations/traditions.

This project (and others) is available on my TPT page. 😊

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Our next Investigation Area is all set up and ready to go. This time, our tuff tray has a literacy focus with lots of different word building opportunities. The word train is getting lots of attention and interest already so it’ll be interesting to see what the kids get up to at the Investigation Area over the next 3 weeks.

I generally change the tuff tray set up every 3 or 4 weeks, with a new focus and different resources. In September we had a fine motor focus in the tuff tray and a maths focus for October.

Tuff tray and stand/legs from @discoveryplaytime . Letter tiles from @flyingtiger . Wooden word building toy from @lidlireland . Word train found on Facebook Marketplace.

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