Festival of Light Writing Project
Organisation: Colmore Infant School
Aim: To engage parents in writing with children and shape a writing project around an existing celebration. To celebrate writing and make writing fun.
Summary: The school enjoyed a Diwali-themed Everybody Writes Day with plenty of colourful arts and crafts, in particular creating coloured paper lamps which parents and children wrote wishes on and then displayed them as part of a celebration with food and crafts. The children enjoyed writing with different tools and on varying surfaces as well as “re-signing” different areas of the school and enjoying a writing treasure hunt.
children and parents make paper lanterns and write their wishes on them.
children explore writing used for different purposes
children display their writing for other classes and teachers to read
children re-sign the school
a pupil enjoys writing with chalk on slate
children role-play taking phone messages
children write messages on lotus flowers and launch them into water
pupils share their writing with parents
Key stage 1 pupils go on a treasure hunt for letters around the school grounds and copy those that they find
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