Blog Author: Miss Woods

Today in Maple Class we have been celebrating Diwali. 

This morning Miss Howarth did a Diwali themed attention autism. In the bucket were a few light up objects to celebrate the festival of light and an Indian doll. 
For stage 2 Miss Howarth used different coloured rice and made a rangoli…

On Thursday 4th November we will be celebrating Diwali throughout school. 
In our classes we will be taking part in a variety of different activities throughout the day to celebrate. 

This week Maple Class have been getting spooky, ready for Halloween. 

All week we have been using a cauldron instead of a bucket in our attention autism. On Tuesday Miss Troughton did a spooky attention autism by cutting out a ghost shape from black card and then sticking cotton wool and 2 eyes…

On Thursday Maple Class celebrated Black History Month. 
In the morning Miss Howarth did an attention autism, Stage one was bucket, Miss Howarth removed different instruments out of the bucket which she shaked, banged and tapped. 
Stage 2 consisted of making an African flag by squirting red,…

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…