Blog Author: Mrs Banks

10A have enjoyed a great week at Bendrigg working towards their Duke of Edinburgh award.

We have shown some fabulous team work, independent living skills, determination and persistence in all activities and achieved so much.

We have had a chance to do some fabulous activities such as…

This week in 10A we have been learning about Remembrance Day and its significance in the world today. We were able to listen to Mrs Chaloner play the Last Post and observe the silence to remember the soldiers that fought for our freedom. We have been able to focus our English lesson around…

What a super fabulous day had by all!

Sycamore class used iPads to create some imaginative selfies for digital art. 
 

Each child used an iPad and travelled around school to find exciting places to take a selfie. Some children chose to share a selfie with a friend or a teacher, whilst some choose to take a silly selfie alone . 
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Sycamore have had a wonderful fun and busy day celebrating the Kings Coronation!

What a fun afternoon we had today in Sycamore class. After playtime we went on the bikes. We put our helmets on and had a big ride on the bikes in the cage.

We then needed to follow positional instructions as Mr Flavell held up STOP, GO and REVERSE signs. Whilst we was riding our bikes we…

Today in Sycamore class we have been busy getting ready for Mothers Day!

We thought about words to describe our Mums. We said our Mums are funny, helpful and amazing and even more adjectives! 

We drew pictures of our Mums, we also discussed what our Mums look like. We thought about what…

A busy mathematical week looking at prepositions with Llama and Miss Molloy.

We were given a picture with a Llama, Miss Molloy would then read out an instruction which included a preposition such as “draw a tree next to the Llama” or “draw red wellies on the Llama” there were lots of…

This week we have been out and about in the community looking at signs and following the green cross code.

Following on from this when we had a bike riding class we had to follow the instructions on the signs.

Mrs Banks held up a sign and we had to remember to look, listen and then follow…

What a very exciting day! Sycamore enjoyed an Attention Autism session, we all sat together and helped Miss Molloy as she began to create a rabbit with red and orange paint it was very messy and fun! We then talked about why Miss Molloy made a rabbit and we found out that the Chinese New Year is…

As part of our people who help us topic this week Sycamore have been exploring Doctors and Dentist and how they help us.

We have had great fun looking at our bodies and it was very funny when we used our labels to place them on Mr Flavell, we were great at knowing our body parts. We have looked…

Sycamore class have been exploring Sikhism. We really enjoyed exploring The 5 Ks during our continuous provision play. We explored some beautiful fabrics, bracelets and clothing and we really enjoyed the pictures of Gurus and the temple