Blog Author: Miss Woods

This week we have celebrated all things Halloween in Chestnut Class, we have had lots of spooky continuous provision and Halloween themed group sessions. 

Our group sessions this week have included; 

• Halloween Sensology- We explored our different senses with Halloween themed…

For the summer term our topic is “Under the Sea”. For the last 2 weeks we’ve been doing the story of the little mermaid. 

Our continuous provision has included; 

• Under the sea tough trays 
• Exploring sea creatures 
• Cleaning the whales and mark making in the foam
• Matching and…

We’ve been exploring all things Easter in  Maple this week with lots of Easter themed continuous provision. 
 

On Monday in the morning we did cookery and made Easter nest cakes, we all enjoyed eating them for our snack. 
In the afternoon we took part in an Easter themed attention autism. In…

For the last 2 weeks of the half term we’ve been learning all about the farm.
We’ve had lots of farm continuous provision including; 

• Farm tough trays
• Matching games
• Farm animal footprints
• Feeding the pig

As well as lots more exploring of different trays. 

We have also done…

This week we have had so much fun taking part in different activities. 

On Monday we had P.E in the hall. We explored the different equipment climbing, sliding, and riding on the scooters, didi cars and the scooter boards. 

In the afternoon we used paint and cars to mark make and make tracks…

We’ve all had so much fun in Maple Class this week.

We’ve enjoyed exploring our new classroom and getting to know our new friends and teachers.

We’ve all taken part in playdough gym and What’s in the bucket with Mrs Gregory.

We learnt about different emotions and found our friends in the…

Yesterday, during our special breakfast, Maple Class had a visit from Santa. We had lots of nice food including brioche, jam and chocolate spread on toast, crackers and even cake! 
Once Santa arrived we were very excited- he even brought us all a present each.
Later on in the day a few of us…

This week Maple Class have enjoyed participating in Sports Week.

Monday - We had a fantastic time on the bikes in the playground, some of us also played with balls, throwing and catching. 

Tuesday - Our teachers hid items in and outside class, we then had to find the items from a checklist.…

This week for mental health awareness week Maple Class have been seeing what makes our engines just right and what makes us feel happy. Some of Maple Class did an attention autism, Miss Woods pulled out different objects from the bucket and we said if they made us happy or sad. One of the objects…

This morning while half of maple class went to strawberry fields to swim the rest of us in Maple Class had fun celebrating St Patrick’s Day. 
First we did an attention autism, in our bucket was a spinning top, a rocket and a flashing spiky ball. Next for stage 2 we did a shamrock fall. Miss Woods…

This year our school theme for world book day was the three little pigs. 

In class to celebrate this theme we had a three little pigs sensory tuff tray, in here we had sticks, foam bricks and straw. We also had pink pig play dough 

As a class team we had our own theme which was Charlie and…

On Friday, Maple Class had a very special visitor! Mrs Parekh joined us via Microsoft Teams and told us about her Hindu faith. Mrs Parekh shared interesting facts and described her favourite festival (Holi). Pupils were then invited to ask questions, they asked about bindis before trying some on,…