Blog Author: Mrs Whittle

This week we have been learning about different types of weather in Maple Class! 

We have been listening to a sensory story to learn about; Snow, rain, thunder and sun. 
Miss Howarth let us feel some pretend snow, we saw that it was white and very cold. We all enjoyed getting squirted with…

We’ve been very busy this week in Maple Class. We have all had lots of fun taking part in attention autism sessions, messy play, workstation activities, interactive games and lots of singing and dancing. 

On Monday we learnt about numbers using sandcastles, Miss Howarth made 1 sandcastle, 2…

Welcome back everyone!

This week Maple class have had an amazing first week back. We’ve had a great time making new friends and exploring their new class environment. We have all been busy taking turns doing lots of exciting things including; relaxation sessions, walks around the track, story…

This week Oak Class have been learning all about different families, same love.

On Monday we read ‘The Family Book’ and drew our own families. We spoke to each other about who is in our families. We spoke about our Mums, Dads, Grandads, Grandmas, Brothers and Sisters. Isla and Harvey wrote on…

This week Oak class have been very busy learning with their teachers in school and their mums and dads at home. Although we are not all in school, we have been able to see some of our friends on two Teams calls. On Monday's call Miss Curry read a very exciting story about Yoff, Zid and Mab (three…

As we say goodbye from Oak to Mrs Simpson and Miss Branfield we are also saying a big welcome to Mrs Baxendale and Miss Armstrong. 

Miss Armstrong has previously worked at Astley Park but has been on maternity leave for the past year, she has welcomed a little girl called Jessa and is now…

This week everyone in school has been looking at challenging gender stereotypes. In Oak class we have been reading a book called ‘The Daddy Book’, a book which celebrates different kinds of dads and highlights the many reasons they are so special. We all really enjoyed talking about our dads And…

What another lovely week we have had in Oak Class looking at The little Mermaid. We have been very lucky that this week we have had two birthdays, Ellie and Noah’s. We’d all like to thank parents for the donations of sweets and cake which we all loved. 

• In our My Creativity lessons we…

This week in Oak Class we have started our new story, The Little Mermaid.
 

• First we explored a sensory story which Miss Curry delivered, looking at the objects under the sea, discussing the emotions in the story and predicting what would happen next. 
• In My Communication we have been…

This week Oak have been having lots of spooky fun for Halloween week. 
Miss Curry read the five little pumpkins as a sensory story this week and we’ve done lot’s of nice activities.
* We made pumpkin plate faces and painted apples to make pumpkins on card.
* Made Witch faces by cutting out…

Last week Oak Class were doing lots of activities all about the Gingerbread man. 
We did an attention autism and listened to Miss Curry read the story. 
We counted the buttons on our gingerbread men, and then put our own smarties buttons on.
We even got to eat our Gingerbread man! 
 

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This week Amelia and Grace have been learning about lots of different animals we would see on a safari. We’ve made lions, giraffes, a parrot and a snake and then some binoculars to go on a safari hunt with. 

We had lots of fun making animal patterns with paint and then look for the right animal…