Blog Author: Miss Woods

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…

Hi Everyone, 

Last week was a busy week for Oak Class as we all got busy at home with MADD week. 

Week 6's Learning from home: 

*Ellie has been trying out some Irish dancing for MADD week. She’s also enjoyed doing some jigsaws and even completed a 49 piece puzzle!! Wow Ellie you’re…

This week Oak Class have been making bird feeders. On Thursdays Mrs Banks did an attention autism to show us all what we needed to do, she squashed some lard and then sprinkled, squashed and rolled bird seed into it, she then added a string so we could hang them up for the birds to get. Afterwards…

On monday we learnt all about why we celebrate pancake Day in our assembly and even had a taste of some pancakes! 
When we got back to class we all joined Miss Woods on the carpet as we took part in an attention autism, looking at what ingredients we need in order to make a pancake. Some of us…

Oak Class learnt all about the Christmas nativity today. First of all, we enjoyed reading the story together on the carpet, taking it in turns to find the characters in our story to match our figures.
We were able to answer questions during different parts of the story; 
When Mary was told by…