Blog Author: Miss Melling

This week we have enjoyed spending our last week together in Oak class. There has been lots of fun, laughs and play - we will all miss each other so much but we are very excited to watch the children flourish as they take their next steps at Astley Park. To celebrate our wonderful year, we had a…

Wow! What an absolutely fantastic day we have all had celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee at the Astley Park Funfair!! Pupils and staff have enjoyed a day full of excitement and nobody could keep a smile off their face when they walked into the school decorated in red, white and…

Yesterday in Oak class we continued our learning about different food found at the funfair and this week it was all about popcorn! Oak class sat in a group together and made our very own popcorn! We poured in the popcorn kernels, turned on the machine and waited for the magic to happen. We…

We have had such a fantastic week in Oak class celebrating all things Easter! We have made Easter cards and followed instructions to make delicious rice crispie cakes. We have followed clues to find hidden Easter eggs and learned all about why we celebrate Easter. We have looked at daffodils,…

Everyone in Oak class has had a super World Book Day!

We loved seeing our friends in their dressing up clothes. Arav dressed as Paddington Bear, Cosmin bounced around like Where’s Wally? And Leon was Grunt from Megamonster. He told us all about his favourite character and answered questions in…

Oak have learned about Valentine’s Day this week. We have chosen someone that we love to make a card for, following instructions and writing our names! We did an Attention Autism where we watched Miss blow up a love heart balloon and pieces of confetti went everywhere! We chose a friend to give a…

On Friday, Oak class had a very special treat to celebrate Arav's birthday! We all sat together at our group table and enjoyed a McDonald's treat to celebrate. We all chose what we would like and absolutely loved it! Thank you Arav - we hope you had a wonderful birthday over the…

Oak class are very happy to be back at school with all our friends after our exciting Christmas holidays. This week we have done lots of new fun activities and have had a great first week back. We started off our week with Miss Hothersall who read us a very exciting sensory version of 'The…

Oak Class spent the morning with a very cute and friendly group of alpacas. Together we got to pet, feed and spend time with the Alpacas. It felt very funny on our hands when we fed them and they ate it very quickly. Their fur was very soft and we all enjoyed getting to have a go at stroking…

Oak class have had a very busy week behind the scenes filming for our part in the Christmas Production. We have been loving the festivities and have enjoyed Christmas Lunch and a super Christmas Party! We ate some yummy party food, played pass the parcel and had a dance to Christmas songs with our…

It's been a super busy first week back in Oak Class!

At the beginning of the week we welcomed a new friend into our class and he has had a fun week making new friends.

With Miss Hothersall we spent 3 days exploring bonfire night, we engaged in a sensory story about Bonfire Night we banged…

Oak class had a Cake-tacular time during our Macmillan coffee morning. We had a special visit from very special Mummies and Daddy's who enjoyed having cake and a brew with us to celebrate the occasion. 

Throughout the day we did lots of fun cake themed activities, to start us off Miss Melling…